קָבַב qâbab — to scoop out, i.e. (figuratively) to malign or execrate (i.e. stab with words)
Translated in the KJV as × at all, curse.
a primitive root; to scoop out, i.e. (figuratively) to malign or execrate (i.e. stab with words).
qâbab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperative 3Infinitive construct 2Perfect (qatal) 1Infinitive absolute 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1
Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.
For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?
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 ›