נָפַץ nâphats — to dash to pieces, or scatter
Translated in the KJV as be beaten in sunder, break, broken, dash, cause to be discharged, dispersed, be overspread, scatter.
a primitive root; to dash to pieces, or scatter.
nâphats in each stem
Pi'el
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 12Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Infinitive construct 1
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 3Infinitive absolute 1Participle (passive) 1
These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
Niph'al
Participle (active) 1
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 1
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
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 ›