עָנַד ʻânad — to lace fast
Translated in the KJV as bind, tie.
a primitive root; to lace fast.
ʻânad in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Imperative 1
אֶֽעֶנְדֶ֖נּוּ Job 31:36 Imperfect (yiqtol), 1st person common singular
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
עָ֝נְדֵ֗ם Prov 6:21 Imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
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 ›