חָבַשׁ châbash — to wrap firmly (especially a turban, compress, or saddle)
Translated in the KJV as bind, gird about, govern, healer, put, saddle, wrap about.
a primitive root; to wrap firmly (especially a turban, compress, or saddle); figuratively, to stop, to rule.
châbash in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 10Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Participle (passive) 4Imperative 4Infinitive construct 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Participle (active) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
And Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the Lord commanded Moses.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (active) 1
He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 2
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
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 ›