תָּקַע tâqaʻ — to clatter, i.e. slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument)
Translated in the KJV as blow, cast, clap, fasten, pitch, smite, sound, strike, × suretiship, thrust.
a primitive root; to clatter, i.e. slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument); by analogy, to drive (a nail or tent-pin, a dart, etc.); by implication, to become bondsman by handclasping).
tâqaʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 17Perfect (qatal) 11Sequential perfect (weqatal) 11Imperative 9Participle (active) 7Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Infinitive absolute 2Infinitive construct 2Participle (passive) 1
Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
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 ›