מָחַץ mâchats — to dash asunder
Translated in the KJV as dip, pierce, smite, strike through, wound.
a primitive root; to dash asunder; by implication, to crush, smash or violently plunge; figuratively, to subdue or destroy.
mâchats in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 6Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperative 1Wayyiqtol 1
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
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 ›