עָכַס ʻâkaç — properly, to tie, specifically, with fetters
Translated in the KJV as make a tinkling ornament.
a primitive root; properly, to tie, specifically, with fetters; but used only as denominative from H5914; to put on anklets.
ʻâkaç in each stem
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
תְּעַכַּֽסְנָה Isa 3:16 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person feminine plural
Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
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 ›