Midvash

קָשַׁרqâshar

bind, league together, conspire

Pronunciation: kaw-shar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7194

Meanings

Qal: active, passive (Amos 7:10; 1 Kings 16:16; Deuteronomy 6:8)

1. bind

a. bind, confine (Genesis 38:28; Jeremiah 51:63; Joshua 2:18)

b. his life is bound up with his (Deuteronomy 6:8; Deuteronomy 11:18; Proverbs 3:3)

c. vigorous (properly well- knit; opposed to עֲטֻפִים) (Genesis 30:42)

2. league together, conspire (1 Samuel 22:8; 1 Samuel 22:13; 1 Samuel 1:27)

Niph`al: bound up, joined together, (Qal 1.b.), (the circuit complete) (1 Samuel 18:1; Nehemiah 3:38)

Pi`el

1. bind on, (as ornament) (Isaiah 49:18)

2. bind fast (Job 38:31)

Pu`al: = Qal 1c. (Genesis 30:41)

Hithpa`el: conspire (2 Chronicles 24:25; 2 Kings 12:21; 2 Kings 9:14)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 44 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 30:41 Whenever the stronger females were ready to mate, Jacob would place the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of them. Then they would mate in front of the branches.
  • Genesis 30:42 But he didn’t do this with the weaker ones, so the weaker lambs belonged to Laban, and the stronger ones were Jacob’s.
  • Genesis 38:28 While she was in labor, one of the babies reached out his hand. The midwife grabbed it and tied a scarlet string around the child’s wrist, announcing, “This one came out first.”
  • Genesis 44:30 “And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father’s life is bound up in the boy’s life.
  • Deuteronomy 6:8 Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders.
  • Deuteronomy 11:18 “So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).