קָפָא qâphâʼ — to shrink, i.e. thicken (as unracked wine, curdled milk, clouded sky, frozen water)
Translated in the KJV as congeal, curdle, dark, settle.
a primitive root; to shrink, i.e. thicken (as unracked wine, curdled milk, clouded sky, frozen water).
qâphâʼ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (active) 1
And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
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 ›