תָּקַף tâqaph — to overpower
Translated in the KJV as prevail.
a primitive root; to overpower.
tâqaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3
תִּתְקְפֵ֣הוּ Job 14:20 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person masculine singular
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
תִּ֝תְקְפֵ֗הוּ Job 15:24 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person feminine singular
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
יִתְקְפוֹ֙ Eccl 4:12 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
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 ›