חָטַף châṭaph — to clutch
Translated in the KJV as catch.
a primitive root; to clutch; hence, to seize as a prisoner.
châṭaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1Infinitive construct 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
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 ›