פָּחַח pâchach — to batter out
Translated in the KJV as be snared.
a primitive root; to batter out; but used only as denominative from H6341,; to spread a net.
pâchach in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Infinitive absolute 1
הָפֵ֤חַ Isa 42:22 Infinitive absolute
But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
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 ›