קָרַע qâraʻ — to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)
Translated in the KJV as cut out, rend, × surely, tear.
a primitive root; to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them).
qâraʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 25Perfect (qatal) 10Participle (passive) 7Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Imperative 2Infinitive construct 2Infinitive absolute 1Participle (active) 1
And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 2Wayyiqtol 1
And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
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 ›