שָׁדַף shâdaph — to scorch
Translated in the KJV as blast.
a primitive root; to scorch.
shâdaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 3
And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.
And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
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 ›