פָּאָה pâʼâh — to puff, i.e. blow away
Translated in the KJV as scatter into corners.
a primitive root; to puff, i.e. blow away.
pâʼâh in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Cohortative 1
אַפְאֵיהֶ֑ם Deut 32:26 Cohortative, 1st person common singular
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
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 ›