אָחַד ʼâchad — to unify, i.e. (figuratively) collect (one's thoughts)
Translated in the KJV as go one way or other.
perhaps a primitive root; to unify, i.e. (figuratively) collect (one's thoughts).
ʼâchad in each stem
Hitpa'el
Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves
Imperative 1
הִתְאַחֲדִ֥י Ezek 21:21 Imperative, 2nd person feminine singular
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
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 ›