פּוּר pûwr — to crush

pronounced poor · Strong's H6331 · 3 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Hiph'il

Translated in the KJV as break, bring to nought, × utterly take.

a primitive root; to crush.

pûwr in each stem

Hiph'il 3×

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1

הֵפִ֥יר Ps 33:10 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. (KJV)

אָפִ֣יר Ps 89:34 Imperfect (yiqtol), 1st person common singular

My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. (KJV)

הֵפִ֑יר Ezek 17:19 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head. (KJV)

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 ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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