עָתַד ʻâthad — to prepare
Translated in the KJV as make fit, be ready to become.
a primitive root; to prepare.
ʻâthad in each stem
Hitpa'el
Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves
Perfect (qatal) 1
הִתְעַתְּד֣וּ Job 15:28 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Imperative 1
וְעַתְּדָ֣הּ Prov 24:27 Imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
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 ›