אָגַר ʼâgar — to harvest
Translated in the KJV as gather.
a primitive root; to harvest.
ʼâgar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (active) 1
Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
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 ›