נָתַס nâthâç — to tear up
Translated in the KJV as mar.
a primitive root; to tear up.
nâthâç in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1
נָתְס֗וּ Job 30:13 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
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 ›
