עוּב ʻûwb — to be dense or dark, i.e. to becloud
Translated in the KJV as cover with a cloud.
a primitive root; to be dense or dark, i.e. to becloud.
ʻûwb in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יָעִ֨יב Lam 2:1 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
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 ›