צָמַת tsâmath — to extirpate (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as consume, cut off, destroy, vanish.
a primitive root; to extirpate (literally or figuratively).
tsâmath in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Wayyiqtol 1Imperative 1Participle (active) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.
For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 2
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
Pilpel
Perfect (qatal) 1
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 1
My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
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 ›
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