תָּפַשׂ tâphas — to manipulate, i.e. seize
Translated in the KJV as catch, handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop, × surely, surprise, take.
a primitive root; to manipulate, i.e. seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figuratively, to use unwarrantably.
tâphas in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 14Participle (active) 10Infinitive construct 7Imperative 6Perfect (qatal) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Infinitive absolute 1Participle (passive) 1
And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 7Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Wayyiqtol 1Infinitive construct 1
And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
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 ›