קָצַף qâtsaph — to crack off, i.e. (figuratively) burst out in rage
Translated in the KJV as anger, displease, fret self, wrath, be wroth.
a primitive root; to crack off, i.e. (figuratively) burst out in rage.
qâtsaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 10Perfect (qatal) 9Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Infinitive construct 1Jussive 1Participle (active) 1
And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard’s house, both me and the chief baker:
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 2Participle (active) 1Wayyiqtol 1Infinitive construct 1
Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord.
Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you.
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth–hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath.
Hitpa'el
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
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 ›