קָשַׁר qâshar — to tie, physically (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love, league)
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)
Wayyiqtol 14Perfect (qatal) 7Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Participle (passive) 3Participle (active) 3Imperative 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2
But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
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.
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;
Hitpa'el
Wayyiqtol 1Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (active) 1
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.
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.
And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1
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.
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
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.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 1
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.
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 ›
