דָּגַר dâgar — to brood over eggs or young
Translated in the KJV as gather, sit.
a primitive root,; to brood over eggs or young.
dâgar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
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 ›