מָרַד mârad — to rebel
Translated in the KJV as rebel.
a primitive root; to rebel.
mârad in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 7Wayyiqtol 7Participle (active) 4Jussive 3Infinitive construct 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.
Thus saith the whole congregation of the Lord, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the Lord, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord?
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 ›