נָשַׁם nâsham — properly, to blow away, i.e. destroy
Translated in the KJV as destroy.
a primitive root; properly, to blow away, i.e. destroy.
nâsham in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
אֶשֹּׁ֥ם Isa 42:14 Imperfect (yiqtol), 1st person common singular
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
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 ›