בָּצַר bâtsar — to clip off
Translated in the KJV as cut off, fenced, fortify, gather, mighty things, restrain, strong, wall, withhold.
a primitive root; to clip off; specifically (as denominative from H1210); to gather grapes; also to be isolated (i.e. inaccessible by height or fortification).
bâtsar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Participle (active) 3Wayyiqtol 1
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
Pi'el
Infinitive construct 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the Lord.
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 ›