A verb meaning to bereave or make childless, typically through death. The Piel form appears throughout Scripture describing loss of children through violence, disease, judgment, or predation. The term carries profound emotional weight—childlessness in ancient Israel represented deep personal tragedy and potential loss of family continuity. Prophetic texts use bereavement language as covenant curse imagery: disobedience will result in children being taken. The verb can describe both human actions (enemies killing children) and natural forces (wild beasts causing child mortality). In Ezekiel 36:14, the land itself is personified as bereaving its inhabitants, having consumed them through famine and invasion.