קָשַׁר

Genesis 30:41 הַמְקֻשָּׁרוֹת֒ <the> vigorous [female]

Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.

Genesis 30:42 וְהַקְּשֻׁרִ֖ים and the vigorous [ones]

But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.

Genesis 38:28 וַתִּקְשֹׁ֨ר and she tied

And as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. “This one came out first,” she announced.

Genesis 44:30 קְשׁוּרָ֥ה [is] bound up

So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,

Deuteronomy 6:8 וּקְשַׁרְתָּ֥ם and you will tie them

Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Here: 'And you shall tie them'. A physical verb: tying a cord or band around something. The form carries on the string of instructions from verses 6–7 (teach them, speak of them), so it works as a command. 'Them' points back to 'these words' of verse 6.

Deuteronomy 11:18 וּקְשַׁרְתֶּ֨ם and you will tie

Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Here: To tie or fasten with a cord. The supplied gloss 'conspire' is a different, derived use of the same root ('to band together'), not the sense here.

Joshua 2:18 תִּקְשְׁרִ֗י you will bind

unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother and brothers and all your family into your house.

Here: 'You (a woman) shall tie.' The form states a future fact but works as an instruction. The supplied gloss 'to conspire' is this verb's figurative sense ('to band together'). Here it is literal tying, as when the midwife ties a scarlet thread on Zerah's wrist in Genesis 38:28.

Joshua 2:21 וַתִּקְשֹׁ֛ר and she bound

“Let it be as you say,” she replied, and she sent them away. And when they had gone, she tied the scarlet cord in the window.

Here: "And she tied." This is the literal sense of fastening a cord. It is the same verb the spies used in their instruction in verse 18 ("you shall tie"), so the narrator shows her carrying out the term word for word.

1 Samuel 18:1 נִקְשְׁרָ֖ה it was bound

After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

Here: A passive form, 'was tied / became bound'. The verb is about tying things together. In other forms it means 'to conspire', which is to bind yourself into a pact with someone. Here Jonathan's life became fastened to David's.

1 Samuel 22:8 קְשַׁרְתֶּ֨ם you have conspired

Is that why all of you have conspired against me? Not one of you told me that my own son had made a covenant with the son of Jesse. Not one of you has shown concern for me or revealed to me that my son has stirred up my own servant to lie in wait against me, as is the case today.”

1 Samuel 22:13 קְשַׁרְתֶּ֣ם have you conspired

And Saul asked him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God for him so that he could rise up against me to lie in wait, as he is doing today.”

2 Samuel 15:31 בַּקֹּשְׁרִ֖ים [is] among the conspirators

Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

Here: “Among those who are conspiring,” a participle: people actively bound together in the plot right now. The root means to tie or bind. A qesher is a league of people tied together against the throne, a word for treason (15:12, “the conspiracy grew strong”).

1 Kings 15:27 וַיִּקְשֹׁ֨ר and he conspired

Then Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon of the Philistines while Nadab and all Israel were besieging the city.

1 Kings 16:9 וַיִּקְשֹׁ֤ר and he conspired

However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.

Here: "And he conspired." The root's basic picture is tying or binding, so here it means men binding themselves together in a secret pact against the king. Putting the verb first in Hebrew makes the plot the headline of the verse.

1 Kings 16:16 קָשַׁ֣ר he has conspired

and the people in the camp heard that Zimri had conspired against the king and struck him down. So there in the camp that very day, all Israel proclaimed Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel.

1 Kings 16:20 קָשָׁ֑ר he conspired

As for the rest of the acts of Zimri and the treason he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

2 Kings 9:14 וַיִּתְקַשֵּׁ֗ר and he conspired

Thus Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram,

2 Kings 10:9 קָשַׁ֤רְתִּי I conspired

The next morning, Jehu went out and stood before all the people and said, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him. But who killed all these?

2 Kings 12:20 וַיִּקְשְׁרֽוּ־ and they conspired

And the servants of Joash rose up and formed a conspiracy and killed him at Beth-millo, on the road down to Silla.

2 Kings 14:19 וַיִּקְשְׁר֨וּ and people conspired

And conspirators plotted against Amaziah in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

2 Kings 15:10 וַיִּקְשֹׁ֤ר and he conspired

Then Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against Zechariah, struck him down and killed him in front of the people, and reigned in his place.

Here: The basic picture is tying or binding together. In politics it means forming a sworn plot, and in Kings it is the standard word for a coup against a reigning king. It opens a fast chain of 'and he…' verbs.

2 Kings 15:15 קָשָׁ֑ר he conspired

As for the rest of the acts of Shallum, along with the conspiracy he led, they are indeed written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

2 Kings 15:25 וַיִּקְשֹׁ֣ר and he conspired

Then his officer, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him along with Argob, Arieh, and fifty men of Gilead. And at the citadel of the king’s palace in Samaria, Pekah struck down and killed Pekahiah and reigned in his place.

2 Kings 15:30 וַיִּקְשָׁר־ and he conspired

Then Hoshea son of Elah led a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah. In the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah, Hoshea attacked Pekah, killed him, and reigned in his place.

2 Kings 21:23 וַיִּקְשְׁר֥וּ and they conspired

Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.

Here: The basic picture is tying things together. Here it means the officials bound themselves together in a secret plot. It is the standard word in Kings for a palace coup. The verb form carries the story straight on from Amon's apostasy in verse 22.

2 Kings 21:24 הַקֹּשְׁרִ֖ים those [who] had conspired

But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

2 Chronicles 24:21 וַיִּקְשְׁר֣וּ and they conspired

But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 24:25 הִתְקַשְּׁר֨וּ they conspired

And when the Arameans had withdrawn, they left Joash severely wounded. His own servants conspired against him for shedding the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him on his bed. So he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

2 Chronicles 24:26 הַמִּתְקַשְּׁרִ֣ים [are] the [ones who] conspired

Those who conspired against Joash were Zabad son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad son of Shimrith the Moabitess.

2 Chronicles 25:27 וַיִּקְשְׁר֨וּ and people conspired

From the time that Amaziah turned from following the LORD, a conspiracy was formed against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

2 Chronicles 33:24 וַיִּקְשְׁר֤וּ and they conspired

Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed him in his palace.

2 Chronicles 33:25 הַקֹּֽשְׁרִ֖ים those [who] had conspired

But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

Nehemiah 4:6 וַתִּקָּשֵׁ֥ר and it was joined together

So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

Nehemiah 4:8 וַיִּקְשְׁר֤וּ and they conspired

and all of them conspired to come and fight against Jerusalem and create a hindrance.

Job 38:31 הַֽ֭תְקַשֵּׁר ¿ will you bind on

Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

Job 39:10 הֲֽתִקְשָׁר־ ¿ will you bind

Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?

Job 41:5 וְ֝תִקְשְׁרֶ֗נּוּ and will you bind? it

Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

Proverbs 3:3 קָשְׁרֵ֥ם bind them

Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Here: A command, 'tie them', with 'them' attached to the verb. Here the word has its basic physical sense of knotting a cord. 'Conspire' is a later, derived sense ('to be bound together in a plot') and plays no part here.

Proverbs 6:21 קָשְׁרֵ֣ם bind them

Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.

Here: A command to one person ("you") with "them" attached: tie them on. The everyday sense is fastening something with a cord. The supplied gloss "to conspire" is a different use of the same verb (people "tied together" in a plot) and does not apply here. "Them" points back to the father's command and the mother's teaching in verse 20.

Proverbs 7:3 קָשְׁרֵ֥ם bind them

Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Here: A command addressed to one person: "tie them!" The "them" is the father's commandments and teaching from verse 2. The verb pictures physically fastening something on so it stays and goes wherever you go.

Proverbs 22:15 קְשׁוּרָ֣ה [is] bound

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Here: A passive participle: 'tied on, bound fast.' Folly is not just present; it is knotted tightly to the young person's inner life. The same verb is used for binding wisdom's teaching to the heart or neck (Prov 3:3; 6:21; 7:3), so folly has taken the place where instruction belongs.

Isaiah 49:18 וּֽתְקַשְּׁרִ֖ים and you will tie on them

Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.

Here: 'And you will tie them on.' The verb means to bind. Here it is the bride fastening on her sashes and bands (compare Jer 2:32). The 'conspire' sense in the lexicon heading is not in play.

Jeremiah 51:63 תִּקְשֹׁ֤ר you will tie

When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.

Amos 7:10 קָשַׁ֨ר he has conspired

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,

Here: "He has conspired": literally "has tied (a knot)," meaning he has formed a league against the king. In Kings this is the technical word for a coup against a ruling dynasty. Amaziah places it first for emphasis: the charge is treason.