to trouble
a.khar denotes bringing distress or disruption on people, land, or a household, and in passive forms being troubled.
The active forms most often describe a person bringing distress, danger, or damaging disruption upon another person, a land, Israel, or a household; the Niphal forms depict something as troubled or inwardly disturbed. The supplied clauses show this use in accusations, warnings, consequences, and reflective speech.
Senses in use
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Causing distress or damaging disruption · dominant
Active forms identify people as bringing trouble: in Genesis 34:30 Jacob addresses Simeon and Levi after their action has made him odious to the inhabitants and exposed his household to attack. In Joshua 6:18 the warning concerns taking from the devoted thing and bringing trouble on Israel's camp, while Joshua 7:25 sets the trouble brought on Israel against the trouble Joshua says the LORD will bring on the offender. Active participles also label Achan and Elijah in accusations concerning Israel in 1 Chronicles 2:7 and 1 Kings 18:17.
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Being troubled or disturbed · occasional
The Niphal forms present the affected side rather than an agent causing the trouble. In Proverbs 15:6 the APB renders the clause about the wicked person's produce as “is troubled”; in Psalm 39:3 the perfect occurs within the speaker's inward reflection as his heart grows warm and fire burns.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the active forms with “brought trouble,” “bring trouble,” or the label “troubler,” while Proverbs 11:17 uses “harms” and Proverbs 15:6 says “is troubled.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the clauses' adverse setting without fixing a separate English equivalent in every occurrence.