חָפַשׂ châphas — to seek
Translated in the KJV as change, diligent, disquise self, hide, search (for, out).
a primitive root; to seek; causatively, to conceal oneself (i.e. let be sought), or mask.
châphas in each stem
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 3Perfect (qatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Imperative 1
And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
Hitpa'el
Wayyiqtol 4Infinitive absolute 2Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.
So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (active) 1Cohortative 1
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
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 ›