רָפַד râphad — to spread (a bed)
Translated in the KJV as comfort, make, spread.
a primitive root; to spread (a bed); by implication, to refresh.
râphad in each stem
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1Imperative 1
רִפַּ֥דְתִּי Job 17:13 Perfect (qatal), 1st person common singular
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
רַפְּד֖וּנִי Song 2:5 Imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יִרְפַּ֖ד Job 41:22 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
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 ›