חָסַל châçal — to eat off
Translated in the KJV as consume.
a primitive root; to eat off.
châçal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יַחְסְלֶ֖נּוּ Deut 28:38 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
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 ›