כָּנַס kânaç — to collect
Translated in the KJV as gather, heap up, wrap self.
a primitive root; to collect; hence, to enfold.
kânaç in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 4Imperative 1Participle (active) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Pi'el
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
Hitpa'el
Infinitive construct 1
For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
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 ›