100 Most Common Verbs

Question 1

פָּתַח

Answer 1

To open, to loosen

Question 2

צָוָה

Answer 2

To command, to give an order to

Question 3

קָבַץ

Answer 3

To take, to grasp with the hand

To assemble

Question 4

קָבַר

Answer 4

To bury

The primary idea is that of heaping up a mound

Question 5

קָדַשׁ

Answer 5

To devote exclusively to one service or use

Question 6

קוּם

Answer 6

To arise
To stand up
(also can be used to complete)

Question 7

קָרָה

Answer 7

To cry out, to call out

To be called out

Question 8

קָרַב

Answer 8

To approach, to come near

To enter into

Question 9

קָרָא

Answer 9

To meet

To encounter

Question 10

רָאָה

Answer 10

To see

To inspect

Question 11

רָבָה

Answer 11

To increase

Question 12

רָדַף

Answer 12

To pursue

To chase

Question 13

רוּם

Answer 13

To rise

To be arrogant

Question 14

רָעָה

Answer 14

To feed (as in to feed a flock)
To befriend

Question 15

שָׁאַל

Answer 15

To ask
To question
To demand

Question 16

שָׁאַר

Answer 16

To be left
To remain (survive)

Question 17

שָׁבַע

Answer 17

To swear (an oath)
To promise under a condition

Question 18

שָׁבַר

Answer 18

To shatter

To break into pieces

Question 19

שׁוּב

Answer 19

To return, restore

Turn back

Question 20

שָׁחָה

Answer 20

To bow down (with head to the ground)

To sink down

Question 21

שָׁחַת

Answer 21

To destroy

To be currupt

Question 22

שָׁכַב

Answer 22

To lie down

pour out a vessel by tipping it sideways

Question 23

שָׁכַן

Answer 23

To lay oneself down
To dwell, tabernacle
From the root שָׁכַב to lie down

Question 24

שָׁלַח

Answer 24

To send (away)
To stretch out

Question 25

שָׁלַךְ

Answer 25

To cast
To hurl
To throw

Question 26

שָׁמַע

Answer 26

To listen
To obey
To understand
To announce, to summon

Question 27

שָׁמַר

Answer 27

To guard
To preserve or protect
To pay attention to

Question 28

שָׁפַט

Answer 28

To judge, to govern or rule over

Root seems to mean “to set up” or “erect”

Question 29

שָׁתָה

Answer 29

To drink

Question 30

שׂוּר

Answer 30

To saw

??? I think Jeff Benner put this word in by mistake?
Jeff says it means “to turn aside”

Question 31

שׂוּם

Answer 31

To put or set in place
To appoint (make judgement)

Question 32

שָׂנֵא

Answer 32

To hate

To be hateful

Question 33

יָשַׁע

Answer 33

To be given ample space (from enemies)

To save or preserve

Question 34

כּוּן

Answer 34

To be fixed or established

To direct or aim (as in arrows)
To be prepaired

Question 35

כָּלָה

Answer 35

To be completed or finished

Question 36

כָּסָה

Answer 36

To cover , conceal, or hide

Question 37

כָּרַת

Answer 37

To cut
To cut off (or down)
To kill
To cut a covenant

Question 38

כָּתַב

Answer 38

To write

Question 39

לָחַם

Answer 39

To consume (as food)
To fight, to do battle

Question 40

לָקַח

Answer 40

To take

Question 41

מוּת

Answer 41

To die

MRT morto death

Question 42

מָלָא

Answer 42

To fill

satisfy

Question 43

מָלַךְ

Answer 43

To be (become) king
To reign

Question 44

מָצָא

Answer 44

To find
To obtain
To acquire
To receive

Question 45

נָגַד

Answer 45

To be manifest (to be in front of, to be in sight)
To tell
To show

Question 46

נָגַע

Answer 46

To touch
To reach
To strike violently

Question 47

נוּס

Answer 47

To flee

To escape

Question 48

נָטָה

Answer 48

To stretch out
To spread out
(to pervert)
(to thrust aside)

Question 49

נָכָה

Answer 49

To beat, to strike

To clap

Question 50

נָסַע

Answer 50

To pull up (pluck out)
To depart (on a journey)

Question 51

נָפַל

Answer 51

To fall

Question 52

נָצַל

Answer 52

To deliver (save)
To pull out
To pull apart (to strip)

Question 53

נָשָׂא

Answer 53

To lift up

To take up

Question 54

נָתַן

Answer 54

To give
To put
To set

Question 55

סָבַב

Answer 55

To turn (oneself)
To go around (which is done by turning oneself continually)
To encircle (surround)

Question 56

שָׂמַח

Answer 56

To rejoice

To be glad

Question 57

סָפַר

Answer 57

To scratch, scrape, or polish
To inscribe letters on a stone (scribe)
To number or narrate

Question 58

עָבַד

Answer 58

To work, to do work

To labor

Question 59

עָבַר

Answer 59

To pass over, by, or through (to cross)

Question 60

עָזַב

Answer 60

To leave
To loose
To forsake

Question 61

עָלָה

Answer 61

To go up
To climb
To ascend

Question 62

עָמַד

Answer 62

To stand, remain, endure

To take one’s stand

Question 63

עָנָה

Answer 63

To sing (from canno, where we get cantor from)
To speak, to shout, to respond

Question 64

עָשָׂה

Answer 64

To produce by labor

To do, make, produce accomplish

Question 65

פָּנָה

Answer 65

To turn

To the face or surface of

Question 66

פָּקַד

Answer 66

To strike upon or against any person or thing

To visit or revisit

Question 67

אָבַד

Answer 67

To be lost
To lose
To destroy

Question 68

אָהַב

Answer 68

To desire
To breathe after
(love)
From אֲבַב “to produce fruit” (especially 1st fruit)

Question 69

אָיַב

Answer 69

To hate
To be hostile
(the idea is who is so angry they are puffing air)

Question 70

אָכַל

Answer 70

To eat

To devour

Question 71

אָמַר

Answer 71

To say, to speak

The idea to to bring forth light (understanding)

Question 72

אָסַף

Answer 72

To gather
To remove (from the back) hence "to draw back"

Question 73

בּוֹא

Answer 73

To come I’m , to enter

To carry in, to lead in

Question 74

בָּחַר

Answer 74

To choose

To try, to examine, to prove

Question 75

בִּין

Answer 75

To discern, to distinguish
To understand
To consider
(the idea is to separate)

Question 76

בָּנָה

Answer 76

To build

Question 77

בָּקַשׁ

Answer 77

To seek, to strive after, to try to get

To ask

Question 78

גָּלָה

Answer 78

To reveal, to uncover (revelation)

To make naked (make bald)

Question 79

דָּבַר

Answer 79

To set in order (using words) to speak
To lead, to guide, to bring into order (subdue)
A swarm of bees דורה
To follow or to lead behind

Question 80

דָּרַשׁ

Answer 80

To seek (trampling a path by foot).
To ask for, to demand
To study

Question 81

הָלַךְ

Answer 81

To walk
To die

Root is יָלַךְ which means ‘to walk or to go’

Question 82

הָלַל

Answer 82

To be clean, brilliant
To be foolish
To boast

Question 83

הָרַג

Answer 83

To kill

Question 84

זָבַח

Answer 84

To slaughter animals (for sacrifice or eating)

This word is not used to describe Priests, but of private persons who brought their own sacrifices at their own charge.

Question 85

זָכַר

Answer 85

To remember
To recall
To bring to mind

Question 86

חָזַק

Answer 86

To bind bonds strongly, to tie fast
To be urgent upon anyone, to be pressing
To make firm, to strengthen, to confirm

Question 87

חָטָא

Answer 87

To (sin) unintentionally
To miss the mark (as in archery)
To stumble, or to wander from the way

Question 88

חָיָה

Answer 88

To live

Root חָוָה to breathe, to breathe out hence to declare or to show
The original idea of the word is breathing

Question 89

חָלַל

Answer 89

To pierce through
to perforate (make a series oh holes)
To play a flute or pipe
To begin

Root חָלָה to be polished, worn down, sick

Question 90

חָנָה

Answer 90

To bow down
To decline
To pitch one’s tent

Root חָנַן to incline toward (kind, sympathetic)

Question 91

חָשַׁב

Answer 91

To think, to meditate

The primary idea seems to be computing or reckoning, unless perhaps it is “mixing”

Question 92

טָמֵא

Answer 92

To be or to become unclean

To be polluted

Question 93

יָדַע

Answer 93

To know experientially (be wise and skilled from experience)
To discover
To reveal oneself

Question 94

יָלַד

Answer 94

To bring forth as a mother (have a kid)

To begat as a father

Question 95

יָלַךְ

Answer 95

To go, to walk

Question 96

יָצָא

Answer 96

To go out, to go forth

to expand or germinate as a plant
Latin Egress

Question 97

יָרֵא

Answer 97

To tremble (in fear)
To tremble (in joy)

Question 98

יָרַד

Answer 98

To cast down, to descend
To fall
(to go against one’s will)

Question 99

יָרַשׁ

Answer 99

To take by force
To take possession of by force
To occupy by force

Question 100

יָשַׁב

Answer 100

To sit down (used of judges, where they sit to give judgement )
To dwell
To inhabit