שׂוּר sûwr — to saw
Translated in the KJV as cut.
a primitive root (identical with H7786 through the idea of reducing to pieces; compare H4883); to saw.
sûwr in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Wayyiqtol 1
וַיָּ֨שַׂר 1Chr 20:3 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular
And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
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 ›