סוּף çûwph — to snatch away, i.e. terminate
Translated in the KJV as consume, have an end, perish, × be utterly.
a primitive root; to snatch away, i.e. terminate.
çûwph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
I will surely consume them, saith the Lord: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the Lord.
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 ›