קָטַף qâṭaph — to strip off
Translated in the KJV as crop off, cut down, pluck.
a primitive root; to strip off.
qâṭaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Participle (active) 1Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
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.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
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 ›
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