חָצַץ châtsats — properly, to chop into, pierce or sever
Translated in the KJV as archer, × bands, cut off in the midst.
a primitive root (compare H2673); also as denominative from H2671; properly, to chop into, pierce or sever; hence, to curtail, to distribute (into ranks); to shoot an arrow.
châtsats in each stem
Pi'el
Participle (active) 1
They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 1
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
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 ›