קָשַׁב qâshab — to prick up the ears, i.e. hearken
Translated in the KJV as attend, hear, give heed, incline, mark, regard.
a primitive root; to prick up the ears, i.e. hearken.
qâshab in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperative 23Perfect (qatal) 8Infinitive construct 4Participle (active) 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Cohortative 1Wayyiqtol 1
And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.
And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
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 ›