קָדַר qâdar — to be ashy, i.e. dark-colored
Translated in the KJV as be black, be dark, × heavily, mourn.
a primitive root; to be ashy, i.e. dark-colored; by implication, to mourn (in sackcloth or sordid garments).
qâdar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 7Perfect (qatal) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.
Hitpa'el
Perfect (qatal) 1
And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
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 ›