מְרַט mᵉraṭ — to pull off
Translated in the KJV as be plucked.
(Aramaic) corresponding to H4803; to pull off.
mᵉraṭ in each stem
Pe'il
Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them
Perfect (qatal) 1
מְּרִ֨יטוּ Dan 7:4 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine plural
The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.
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 ›