חָבַר châbar — to join (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as charm, be compact, couple, have fellowship with, heap up, join (self, together), league.
a primitive root; to join (literally or figuratively); specifically (by means of spells) to fascinate.
châbar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 8Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Participle (passive) 1
All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Perfect (qatal) 1Infinitive construct 1
And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
Hitpa'el
Infinitive construct 2Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the Lord hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
Hiph'il
Cohortative 1
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
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 ›