נָוָה nâvâh — to rest (as at home)
Translated in the KJV as keep at home, prepare an habitation.
a primitive root; (compare H5116); to rest (as at home); causatively (through the implied idea of beauty), to celebrate (with praises).
nâvâh in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
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 ›