כָּסַם kâçam — to shear
Translated in the KJV as × only, poll. Compare H3765.
a primitive root; to shear.
kâçam in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive absolute 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
כָּס֥וֹם Ezek 44:20 Infinitive absolute
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
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 ›