כָּתַשׁ kâthash — to butt or pound
Translated in the KJV as bray.
a primitive root; to butt or pound.
kâthash in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
תִּכְתּֽוֹשׁ Prov 27:22 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person masculine singular
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
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 ›