קָבַל qâbal — to admit, i.e. take (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as choose, hold, receive, take.
a primitive root; to admit, i.e. take (literally or figuratively).
qâbal in each stem
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 5Wayyiqtol 3Imperative 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
And there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.
So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Choose thee
And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
Hiph'il
Participle (active) 2
Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.
Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.
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 ›