סָעַף çâʻaph — properly, to divide up
Translated in the KJV as top.
a primitive root; properly, to divide up; but used only as denominative from H5585,; to disbranch (a tree).
çâʻaph in each stem
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
מְסָעֵ֥ף Isa 10:33 Participle (active), masculine singular
Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
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 ›