פָּשַׁח pâshach — to tear in pieces
Translated in the KJV as pull in pieces.
a primitive root; to tear in pieces.
pâshach in each stem
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Wayyiqtol 1
וַֽיְפַשְּׁחֵ֖נִי Lam 3:11 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
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 ›