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קָשַׁר qâshar — to tie, physically (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love, league)

pronounced kaw-shar' · Strong's H7194 · 44 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 5 stems: Qal (Pa'al), Hitpa'el, Niph'al, Pi'el, Pu'al

Translated in the KJV as bind, conspire(-acy, -ator), join together, knit, stronger, work.

a primitive root; to tie, physically (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love, league).

qâshar in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 36×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Wayyiqtol 14Perfect (qatal) 7Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Participle (passive) 3Participle (active) 3Imperative 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2

וְהַקְּשֻׁרִ֖ים Gen 30:42 Participle (passive), masculine plural

But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. (KJV)

וַתִּקְשֹׁ֨ר Gen 38:28 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person feminine singular

And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. (KJV)

קְשׁוּרָ֥ה Gen 44:30 Participle (passive), feminine singular

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life; (KJV)

Hitpa'el

Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves

Wayyiqtol 1Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (active) 1

וַיִּתְקַשֵּׁ֗ר 2Kgs 9:14 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramoth–gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria. (KJV)

הִתְקַשְּׁר֨וּ 2Chr 24:25 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings. (KJV)

הַמִּתְקַשְּׁרִ֣ים 2Chr 24:26 Participle (active), masculine plural

And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess. (KJV)

Niph'al

Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them

Perfect (qatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1

נִקְשְׁרָ֖ה 1Sam 18:1 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person feminine singular

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. (KJV)

וַתִּקָּשֵׁ֥ר Neh 3:38 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person feminine singular

Pi'el

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 2

הַֽ֭תְקַשֵּׁר Job 38:31 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person masculine singular

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? (KJV)

וּֽתְקַשְּׁרִ֖ים Isa 49:18 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person feminine singular

Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth. (KJV)

Pu'al

Intensive · passive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject has it done to them

Participle (passive) 1

הַמְקֻשָּׁרוֹת֒ Gen 30:41 Participle (passive), feminine plural

And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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