קוּץ qûwts — to be (causatively, make) disgusted or anxious
Translated in the KJV as abhor, be distressed, be grieved, loathe, vex, be weary.
a primitive root (identical with through the idea of severing oneself from (compare H6962)); to be (causatively, make) disgusted or anxious.
qûwts in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 4Perfect (qatal) 2Jussive 1Participle (active) 1
And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
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 ›