To conspire
קָשַׁרStrong’s H7194qashar (qa-shar)
Appears in 44 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qashar is the Hebrew word usually translated “conspired”, “bind them” and “has conspired”. It appears in 44 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.”
Meaning
- To bind, tie, bind together, league together, conspire(Qal) · (Niphal) to be bound, be bound up · (Piel) · (Pual) robust, vigorous (participle) · (Hithpael) to conspire
How it's translated
- and he conspired 6
- and they conspired 5
- bind them 3
- he has conspired 2
- he conspired 2
- and people conspired 2
- those had conspired 2
- vigorous 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 10
- 2 Chronicles 6
- Genesis 4
- 1 Kings 4
- Proverbs 4
- 1 Samuel 3
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 30:42But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
- Genesis 38:28And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
- Genesis 44:30Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;
- Deuteronomy 6:8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
- Deuteronomy 11:18Therefore 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 eyes.
- Joshua 2:18Behold, 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, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee.
All 44 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
קָשַׁר qashar · to conspire
1) to bind, tie, bind together, league together, conspire 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to bind, confine 1a2) to league together, conspire 1b) (Niphal) to be bound, be bound up 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to bind on 1c2) to bind fast 1c3) to bind, tie 1c4) to bind to oneself 1d) (Pual) robust, vigorous (participle) 1e) (Hithpael) to conspire
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “conspire” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONSPIRE, verb intransitive
[Latin, to plot; to breathe. But the primary sense is to throw, to wind; hence spira, a fold, circle, wreath or band; and the sense of the verb is, to breathe together, or more probably, to wind or band together.]
- To agree, by oath, covenant or otherwise, to commit a crime; to plot; to hatch treason.“The servants of Ammon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house” 2 Kings 21:23“They conspired against Joseph to slay him” Genesis 37:18
- In law, to agree falsely and maliciously to indict an innocent person of felony.
- To agree; to concur to one end.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.