נָאַץ nâʼats — to scorn
Translated in the KJV as abhor, blaspheme, contemn, despise, flourish, × great, provoke.
a primitive root; to scorn; or (in Ecclesiastes 12:5), by interchange for H5132, to bloom.
nâʼats in each stem
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 8Participle (active) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive absolute 1
And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 3Wayyiqtol 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Jussive 1
And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Hitpolel
Participle (passive) 1
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the Lord; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
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 ›