צָדָה tsâdâh — to chase

pronounced tsaw-daw' · Strong's H6658 · 3 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 2 stems: Qal (Pa'al), Niph'al

Translated in the KJV as destroy, hunt, lie in wait.

a primitive root; to chase; by implication, to desolate.

tsâdâh in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 2×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (active) 1

צָדָ֔ה Exod 21:13 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. (KJV)

צֹדֶ֥ה 1Sam 24:12 Participle (active), masculine singular

The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. (KJV)

Niph'al 1×

Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them

Perfect (qatal) 1

נִצְדּ֧וּ Zeph 3:6 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. (KJV)

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 ›

Open in Hebrew Explorer with Verb Anatomy on →

In the app, tap any Hebrew verb while reading: its root, stem and form are named, the letters of the word itself are coloured to show which is which, and the stem's meaning is put in plain English. tsâdâh in the lexicon ›

Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

Open Hebrew Explorer — 30+ free study tools →