Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. (KJV)
קָטָ֑ףEzek 17:4Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular
He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. (KJV)
Niph'al 1×
Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יִקָּטֵ֑ףJob 8:12Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. (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 ›
In the app, tap any Hebrew verb while reading: its root, stem and form are named, the letters of the word itself are coloured to show which is which, and the stem's meaning is put in plain English. qâṭaph in the lexicon ›
Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.
