רָפַס râphaç — to trample, i.e. prostrate
Translated in the KJV as humble self, submit self.
a primitive root; to trample, i.e. prostrate.
râphaç in each stem
Hitpa'el
Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves
Participle (active) 1Imperative 1
מִתְרַפֵּ֥ס Ps 68:31 Participle (active), masculine singular
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
הִ֝תְרַפֵּ֗ס Prov 6:3 Imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
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 ›