חָבַט châbaṭ — to knock out or off
Translated in the KJV as beat (off, out), thresh.
a primitive root; to knock out or off.
châbaṭ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (active) 1Wayyiqtol 1
When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
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 ›