חָפַשׁ châphash — to spread loose
Translated in the KJV as be free.
a primitive root; to spread loose; figuratively, to manumit.
châphash in each stem
Pu'al
Intensive · passive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject has it done to them
Perfect (qatal) 1
חֻפָּֽשָׁה Lev 19:20 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person feminine singular
And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
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 ›