גָּדַע gâdaʻ — to fell a tree
Translated in the KJV as cut (asunder, in sunder, down, off), hew down.
a primitive root; to fell a tree; generally, to destroy anything.
gâdaʻ in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Perfect (qatal) 3Wayyiqtol 2
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God:
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the Lord hath spoken it.
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Participle (passive) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.
Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
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 ›