גָּדַר gâdar — to wall in or around
Translated in the KJV as close up, fence up, hedge, inclose, make up, mason, repairer.
a primitive root; to wall in or around.
gâdar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 4Perfect (qatal) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Wayyiqtol 1
Howbeit there were not made for the house of the Lord bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the Lord:
Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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 ›