פּוּץ pûwts — to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
Translated in the KJV as break (dash, shake) in pieces, cast, disperse, drive, retire, scatter, spread abroad.
a primitive root; to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse).
pûwts in each stem
Hiph'il
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 9Imperfect (yiqtol) 8Perfect (qatal) 7Wayyiqtol 6Infinitive construct 3Participle (active) 2Imperative 1
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 11Participle (passive) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the Lord said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 7Wayyiqtol 4Imperative 1Participle (passive) 1
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
Pilpel
Wayyiqtol 1
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
Po'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Hitpolel
Wayyiqtol 1
He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
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 ›