קָשַׁר
kashar · bind, conspire
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7194 · appears 44 times in the Bible
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kashar (קָשַׁר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bind, conspire”.
Bind, tie; conspire. The soul of one can be "bound" to another in love; of sheep, the strong ones.
How to say it
ka·shar
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To knot something fast; or be joined to another.
- To join secretly with others to bring down someone in authority.
- Said of an animal: healthy and vigorous, the one that stands out in the flock.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
To bind, to tie; and, figuratively, to be closely joined, or to join in secret against someone: to conspire. From the same root is קֶשֶׁר, ‘conspiracy’.
- Tying one thing to another Genesis 38:28Joshua 2:18Jeremiah 51:63
- “You shall bind them as a sign on your hand” Deuteronomy 6:8Proverbs 3:3Proverbs 6:21
- The soul bound to another 1 Samuel 18:1Genesis 44:30
- Conspiring against the king 2 Kings 15:102 Kings 9:141 Samuel 22:8
- “Amos has conspired against you” Amos 7:10
- “Can you tie the bonds of the Pleiades?” Job 38:31
Historical and cultural background
The book of Kings tells several conspiracies that end with the king’s death: Shallum against Zechariah, Menahem against Shallum, Pekah against Pekahiah (2 Kings 15:10-25).
How we translate it
With עַל it is ‘conspire against’ (“conspired” 20 times), and the figure ‘conspire a conspiracy’ is kept where the Hebrew repeats the root (“They made a conspiracy”). When something is tied, “bind” or “tie” (“You shall bind them”, Deuteronomy 6:8). The soul of Jonathan “was bound to the soul of David” (1 Samuel 18:1), and Jacob’s “is bound up” with Benjamin’s (Genesis 44:30). In Genesis 30:41-42, of the flock, “the stronger”.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- conspired ×20
- Bind them ×5
- bind ×3
- bound ×3
- They made a conspiracy ×2
- made ×2
- stronger ×2
- tied ×2
- Can you tie ×1
- among the conspirators ×1
- others ×3
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×4
- Deuteronomy×2
- Joshua×2
- 1 Samuel×3
- 2 Samuel×1
- 1 Kings×4
- 2 Kings×10
- 2 Chronicles×6
- Nehemiah×2
- Job×3
- Proverbs×4
- Isaiah×1
- Jeremiah×1
- Amos×1
- Genesis 30:41
Whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would put the rods before the eyes of the flock in the channels, so that they might mate among the rods;
- Genesis 30:42
but when the flock was feeble, he would not put them there; so the feeble were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
- Genesis 38:28
While she was giving birth, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.”
- Genesis 44:30
Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father and the young man is not with us, since his soul is bound up with his soul,
- Deuteronomy 6:8
You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
- Deuteronomy 11:18
So you shall put these words of mine on your heart and on your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
- Joshua 2:18
Look, when we come into the land, you shall tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all the house of your father.
- Joshua 2:21
She said, “According to your words, so it is.” Then she sent them away, and they went. And she tied the cord of scarlet in the window.
- 1 Samuel 18:1
And it came about, when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
- 1 Samuel 22:8
For all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who informs me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse, and none of you is sorry for me or informs me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in wait, as it is this day.”
- 1 Samuel 22:13
Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you gave him bread and a sword and inquired of Elohim for him, so that he would rise against me to lie in wait, as it is this day?”
- 2 Samuel 15:31
David was told, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “Please, YHWH, turn into folly the counsel of Ahithophel.”
- 1 Kings 15:27
Baasha son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, while Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.
- 1 Kings 16:9
His servant Zimri, commander of half the chariots, conspired against him. He was in Tirzah, drinking and drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;
- 1 Kings 16:16
The people who were encamped heard it said, “Zimri has conspired, and has also struck down the king.” So all Israel made king over Israel Omri, the commander of the army, that day in the camp.
- 1 Kings 16:20
The rest of the deeds of Zimri, and his conspiracy that he conspired, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 2 Kings 9:14
Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. Now Joram had been guarding Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, against Hazael king of Aram;
- 2 Kings 10:9
And it happened in the morning that he went out and stood and said to all the people, “You are righteous. Look, I conspired against my master and killed him; but who struck all these?
- 2 Kings 12:20
His servants rose up and made a conspiracy and struck Joash at the house of Millo, which goes down to Silla.
- 2 Kings 14:19
They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; and they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.
- 2 Kings 15:10
Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against him and struck him before the people and put him to death and reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 15:15
The rest of the acts of Shallum and his conspiracy that he conspired, there they are, written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
- 2 Kings 15:25
Pekah son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him and struck him in Samaria, in the citadel of the house of the king, with Argob and with Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the sons of the Gileadites; and he put him to death and reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 15:30
Hoshea son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah, and struck him and put him to death and reigned in his place, in year twenty of Jotham son of Uzziah.
- 2 Kings 21:23
The servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death in his house.
- 2 Kings 21:24
But the people of the land struck all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made king Josiah his son in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 24:21
They conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of YHWH.
- 2 Chronicles 24:25
When they had gone from him —for they left him with many ailments —his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
- 2 Chronicles 24:26
These are the ones who conspired against him: Zabad son of Shimeath the Ammonite woman, and Jehozabad son of Shimrith the Moabite woman.
- 2 Chronicles 25:27
From the time that Amaziah turned away from following YHWH, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; and they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.
- 2 Chronicles 33:24
His servants conspired against him and put him to death in his house.
- 2 Chronicles 33:25
But the people of the land struck all who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made king Josiah his son in his place.
- Nehemiah 4:6
So we built the wall, and all the wall was joined together up to half of it; and the people had a heart to work.
- Nehemiah 4:8
and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause it confusion.
- Job 38:31
Can you tie the bonds of the Pleiades, or the cords of Orion loosen?
- Job 39:10
Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with his rope, or will he harrow the valleys after you?
- Job 41:5
Will you play with it as with a bird, or bind it for your girls?
- Proverbs 3:3
Let not loyal love and faithfulness abandon you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart;
- Proverbs 6:21
Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.
- Proverbs 7:3
Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
And 4 more times.