חָגַר châgar — to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.)
Translated in the KJV as be able to put on, be afraid, appointed, gird, restrain, × on every side.
a primitive root; to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.).
châgar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperative 10Wayyiqtol 9Participle (passive) 9Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Participle (active) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Perfect (qatal) 3Infinitive construct 1
And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’s passover.
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 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 ›