רָבַב râbab — to shoot an arrow
Translated in the KJV as shoot.
a primitive root (rather identical with H7231 through the idea of projection); to shoot an arrow.
râbab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 2
וָרֹ֑בּוּ Gen 49:23 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
רָ֝ב Ps 18:15 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular
Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
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 ›