חָתַךְ châthak — properly, to cut off, i.e. (figuratively) to decree
Translated in the KJV as determine.
a primitive root; properly, to cut off, i.e. (figuratively) to decree.
châthak in each stem
Niph'al
Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them
Perfect (qatal) 1
נֶחְתַּ֥ךְ Dan 9:24 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
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 ›