קָרַס qâraç — properly, to protrude
Translated in the KJV as stoop.
a primitive root; properly, to protrude; used only as denominative from H7165 (for alliteration with H7167),; to hunch, i.e. be hump-backed.
qâraç in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
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 ›