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חָפַשׂ
How the KJV Renders It
TranslationStrong’s lists the renderings but not their weight. These are counted from the King James text of the tagged verses — the bar under each is how often the translators actually reached for it. Select one to filter the occurrences below.
Grammatical Forms
MorphologyIn the Hebrew Old Testament, this word appears as a verb across 23 occurrences, inflected in 16 grammatical forms — each row is one form, and the bar is how often it is that form. Select any form to read what each part of its name means, and to filter the occurrence list to it.
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יִּתְחַפֵּשׂ
- Hithpael
- Reflexive-intensive — the subject acts upon itself.
- Consecutive Imperfect
- Imperfect with vav — carries narrative forward ("and he…").
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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יְחַפֵּשׂ
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Consecutive Imperfect
- Imperfect with vav — carries narrative forward ("and he…").
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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הִתְחַפֵּשׂ
- Hithpael
- Reflexive-intensive — the subject acts upon itself.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
- Construct
- Bound to a following noun — "the X of…".
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אֲחַפֵּשׂ
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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יִתְחַפֵּשׂ
- Hithpael
- Reflexive-intensive — the subject acts upon itself.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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הִתְחַפֵּשׂ
- Hithpael
- Reflexive-intensive — the subject acts upon itself.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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נֶחְפְּשׂוּ
- Niphal
- Simple passive or reflexive of the Qal.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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חִפַּשְׂתִּי
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Consecutive Perfect
- Perfect with vav — continues a sequence into the future.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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חִפְּשׂוּ
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Consecutive Perfect
- Perfect with vav — continues a sequence into the future.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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חַפְּשׂוּ
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Imperative
- A command or entreaty.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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יְחֻפַּשׂ
- Pual
- The passive of the intensive (Piel) stem.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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מְחֻפָּשׂ
- Pual
- The passive of the intensive (Piel) stem.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Passive
- The subject is acted upon.
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun (not bound to another).
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נַחְפְּשָׂה
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Plural
- More than one.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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תַּחְפְּשֶׂ
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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יַחְפְּשׂוּ
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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חֹפֵשׂ
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun (not bound to another).
Biblical Distribution
DistributionAppears in 20 verses across 12 of the 39 books. Most frequent in 1 Kings and Proverbs (3 verses each); never once in the other 27.
Every Occurrence
ConcordanceEvery verse where the word is tagged in the King James text. Filter by book, by the English word the translators chose, by grammatical form, or search within the verses.
Sources. Definition and numbering: James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890). Morphology: STEPBible / Tyndale House (CC BY). Verse tagging: the King James text keyed to Strong’s numbers. Every count on this page is computed from the tagged corpus, not estimated.