קָפַד qâphad — to contract, i.e. roll together
Translated in the KJV as cut off.
a primitive root; to contract, i.e. roll together.
qâphad in each stem
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1
קִפַּ֨דְתִּי Isa 38:12 Perfect (qatal), 1st person common singular
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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 ›