צָבַר tsâbar — to aggregate
Translated in the KJV as gather, heap, lay up.
a primitive root; to aggregate.
tsâbar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 3
And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God.
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 ›