קָשַׁר
qâshar · kaw-shar'
to tie, physically (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love, league)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to tie, physically (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love, league)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bind (up), (make a) conspire(-acy, -ator), join together, knit, stronger, work (treason).
Letters
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › to consume, to destroy › the head, the highest
What comes behind, the returning cycle that works to consume, to destroy of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קָשַׁר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
44 occurrences · 44 OT · 0 NT · 39 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- conspired7 · 19%
- and bind2 · 6%
- hath conspired2 · 6%
- all them that had conspired2 · 6%
- canst thou bind2 · 6%
- bind2 · 6%
- and it came to pass, whensoever the stronger1 · 3%
- and the stronger1 · 3%
- and bound1 · 3%
- is bound up1 · 3%
- and thou shalt bind1 · 3%
- thou shalt bind1 · 3%
- and she bound1 · 3%
- was knit1 · 3%
- that all of you have conspired1 · 3%
- unto him, why have ye conspired1 · 3%
- is among the conspirators1 · 3%
- that he wrought1 · 3%
- behold, i conspired1 · 3%
- and made1 · 3%
- now they made1 · 3%
- which he made1 · 3%
- of his, conspired1 · 3%
- made1 · 3%
- and they conspired1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.