קָרַם qâram — to cover

pronounced kaw-ram' · Strong's H7159 · 2 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as cover.

a primitive root; to cover.

qâram in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 2×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1

וְקָרַמְתִּ֤י Ezek 37:6 Sequential perfect (weqatal), 1st person common singular

And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. (KJV)

וַיִּקְרַ֧ם Ezek 37:8 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. (KJV)

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 ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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