סָחָה çâchâh — to sweep away
Translated in the KJV as scrape.
a primitive root; to sweep away.
çâchâh in each stem
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
וְסִֽחֵיתִ֥י Ezek 26:4 Sequential perfect (weqatal), 1st person common singular
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
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 ›