קָפַץ qâphats — to draw together, i.e. close
Translated in the KJV as shut, skip, stop, take out of the way.
a primitive root; to draw together, i.e. close; by implication, to leap (by contracting the limbs); specifically, to die (from gathering up the feet).
qâphats in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Pi'el
Participle (active) 1
The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
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 ›