קָשַׁר qashar
Hebrew word for “to conspire” · Strong’s H7194 · used 44 times in 44 verses
Meaning
1) to bind, tie, bind together, league together, conspire;
How it is translated
Glosses given for qashar in context, with how often each is used:
- conspired 15
- will tie 3
- bound 3
- bind 3
- has conspired 2
- people conspired 2
- those who had conspired 2
- vigorous female 1
- vigorous ones 1
- tied 1
- bound up 1
- will bind 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Kings | 10 | 0.8 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 6 | 0.5 | |
| Genesis | 4 | 0.2 | |
| 1 Kings | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Proverbs | 4 | 0.6 | |
| 1 Samuel | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Job | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Deuteronomy | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Joshua | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Nehemiah | 2 | 0.4 | |
| 2 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Isaiah | 1 | 0.1 |
Also in 2 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
2 Kings 15 (4), 1 Kings 16 (3), 2 Chronicles 24 (3), Genesis 30 (2), Joshua 2 (2), 1 Samuel 22 (2), 2 Kings 21 (2), 2 Chronicles 33 (2), Nehemiah 4 (2), Genesis 38 (1)
Forms
- ויקשׁרו 7
- ויקשׁר 5
- קשׁר 4
- ותקשׁר 3
- קשׁרם 3
- קשׁורה 2
- וקשׁרתם 2
- קשׁרתם 2
- הקשׁרים 2
- התקשׁר 2
Words used with it
Words that share verses with qashar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- קֶשֶׁר qesher “conspiracy” 6
- נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 9
- מוּת mut “to die” 8
- מָלַךְ malakh “to reign” 6
- עֶבֶד eved “servant/slave” 7
- זִמְרִי zimri “Zimri” 3
- אָמוֹן amon “Amon” 3
- תַּחַת tachat “underneath” 5
- שָׁנִי shani “scarlet” 3
- כָּתַב katav “to write” 4
- לֵב lev “heart” 5
- טוֹטָפוֹת tophaphah “phylacteries” 2
Key verses
The verses using qashar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Deuteronomy 11:18 — Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your…
- Joshua 2:18 — Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father,…
- 1 Samuel 18:1 — And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his…
- 2 Samuel 15:31 — And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into…
- 1 Kings 16:9 — And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his…
- 2 Kings 15:30 — And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of…
- 2 Chronicles 24:21 — And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 24:25 — And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the…
- Proverbs 3:3 — Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
- Proverbs 22:15 — Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
- Isaiah 49:18 — Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee…
- Amos 7:10 — Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is…
See all 44 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.