הָדַף hâdaph — to push away or down
Translated in the KJV as cast away, drive, expel, thrust.
a primitive root; to push away or down.
hâdaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Infinitive construct 3Perfect (qatal) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;
But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,
To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.
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 ›