חֲצַף chătsaph — (Aramaic) a primitive root
Translated in the KJV as hasty, be urgent.
(Aramaic) a primitive root; properly, to shear or cut close; figuratively, to be severe.
chătsaph in each stem
Haph'el
Participle (active) 1
He answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
Aph'el
Participle (active) 1
Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego.
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 ›