עֲדַר ʻădar — to arrange, as a battle, a vineyard (to hoe)
Translated in the KJV as dig, fail, keep, lack.
a primitive root; to arrange, as a battle, a vineyard (to hoe); hence, to muster and so to miss (or find wanting).
ʻădar in each stem
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 5Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (active) 1
And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.
Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the Lord this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 1
And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
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 ›