תָּוָה tâvâh — to grieve
Translated in the KJV as limit.
a primitive root (or perhaps identical with H8427 through a similar idea from scraping to pieces); to grieve.
tâvâh in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1
הִתְווּ Ps 78:41 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
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 ›
