כִּרְסֵם kirçêm — to lay waste
Translated in the KJV as waste.
from H3697; to lay waste.
kirçêm in each stem
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יְכַרְסְמֶ֣נָּֽה Ps 80:14 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
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 ›