רָבַד râbad — to spread
Translated in the KJV as deck.
a primitive root; to spread.
râbad in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1
רָבַ֣דְתִּי Prov 7:16 Perfect (qatal), 1st person common singular
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
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 ›