יָרַע yâraʻ — properly, to be broken up (with any violent action) i.e. (figuratively) to fear
Translated in the KJV as be grevious.
a primitive root; properly, to be broken up (with any violent action) i.e. (figuratively) to fear.
yâraʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Perfect (qatal) 1
Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
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 ›