The Hophal form is commonly understood to be the passive of the causal stem and it is the rarest of the major stem forms. As with the Pual stem, the Hophal represents the subject as being acted upon or suffering the effects of having been acted upon: הָֽחֳלֵ֖יתִי מְאֹֽד “and he was caused to be mortally wounded” (2 Chron. 35:23) The Hophal form of verbs is generally the passive causative stem of the Qal and the keys for this stem is the hē + qāmēṣ ḥāṭûph preformative