אָפַד ʼâphad — to gird on (the ephod)
Translated in the KJV as bind, gird.
a primitive root [rather a denominative from H646]; to gird on (the ephod).
ʼâphad in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1
And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.
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 ›