עָצָה ʻâtsâh — properly, to fasten (or make firm), i.e. to close (the eyes)
Translated in the KJV as shut.
a primitive root; properly, to fasten (or make firm), i.e. to close (the eyes).
ʻâtsâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
עֹצֶ֣ה Prov 16:30 Participle (active), masculine singular
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
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 ›