אָסַר ʼâçar — to yoke or hitch
Translated in the KJV as bind, fast, gird, harness, hold, keep, make ready, order, prepare, prison, put in bonds, set in array.
a primitive root; to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle.
ʼâçar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 18Participle (passive) 16Perfect (qatal) 11Infinitive construct 6Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Imperative 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Infinitive absolute 2Participle (active) 1
And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Imperative 1
Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 2
All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
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 ›