קוּם qûwm — to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
Translated in the KJV as abide, accomplish, × be clearer, confirm, continue, decree, × be dim, endure, × enemy, enjoin, get up, make good.
a primitive root; to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative).
qûwm in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 168Imperative 94Imperfect (yiqtol) 85Perfect (qatal) 38Infinitive construct 25Sequential perfect (weqatal) 18Participle (active) 18Cohortative 7Jussive 5Infinitive absolute 1
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 27Wayyiqtol 27Sequential perfect (weqatal) 26Perfect (qatal) 22Infinitive construct 22Participle (active) 11Imperative 6Infinitive absolute 3Jussive 2
But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Pi'el
Infinitive construct 5Perfect (qatal) 4Imperative 1Wayyiqtol 1
Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel.
To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
Hitpolel
Participle (active) 4
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
Polel
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4
That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
Hoph'al
Perfect (qatal) 3
And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father’s commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
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 ›
