תָּזַז tâzaz — to lop off
Translated in the KJV as cut down.
a primitive root; to lop off.
tâzaz in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1
הֵתַֽז Isa 18:5 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular
For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
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 ›