תְּקַן tᵉqan — to straighten up, i.e. confirm
Translated in the KJV as establish.
(Aramaic) corresponding to H8626; to straighten up, i.e. confirm.
tᵉqan in each stem
Hoph'al
Causative · passive — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject has it done to them
Perfect (qatal) 1
הָתְקְנַ֔ת Dan 4:33 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person feminine singular
The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
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 ›