רָפַשׂ râphas — to trample, i.e. roil water
Translated in the KJV as foul, trouble.
a primitive root; to trample, i.e. roil water.
râphas in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
Niph'al
Participle (active) 1
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
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 ›