מָרַץ mârats — properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to be pungent or vehement
Translated in the KJV as embolden, be forcible, grievous, sore.
a primitive root; properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to be pungent or vehement; to irritate.
mârats in each stem
Niph'al
Participle (active) 1Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (passive) 1
And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
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 ›