קוּט qûwṭ — properly, to cut off, i.e. (figuratively) detest
Translated in the KJV as begrieved, loathe self.
a primitive root; properly, to cut off, i.e. (figuratively) detest.
qûwṭ in each stem
Niph'al
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
Hitpolel
Wayyiqtol 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
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 ›