מָקַק mâqaq — ' a primitive root
Translated in the KJV as consume away, be corrupt, dissolve, pine away.
' a primitive root; to melt; figuratively, to flow, dwindle, vanish.
mâqaq in each stem
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (passive) 1
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Hiph'il
Infinitive absolute 1
And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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 ›