כָּשָׂה kâsâh — to grow fat (i.e. be covered with flesh)
Translated in the KJV as be covered. Compare H3680.
a primitive root; to grow fat (i.e. be covered with flesh).
kâsâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1
כָּשִׂ֑יתָ Deut 32:15 Perfect (qatal), 2nd person masculine singular
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›
