קוּץ qûwts — to clip off
Translated in the KJV as summer.
a primitive root; to clip off; used only as denominative from H7019; to spend the harvest season.
qûwts in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
וְקָ֤ץ Isa 18:6 Sequential perfect (weqatal), 3rd person masculine singular
They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
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 ›