חַת chath — concretely, crushed
Translated in the KJV as broken, dismayed, dread, fear.
from H2865; concretely, crushed; also afraid; abstractly, terror.
chath in each stem
Niph'al
Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יֵחַ֥ת Isa 7:8 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
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 ›