Hebrew verb · H3803
כָּתַר
katharkaw-thar'
to surround
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kâthar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3803is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3803
to enclose; hence (in a friendly sense) to crown, (in a hostile one) to besiege; also to wait (as restraining oneself)
The King James renders it: beset round, compass about, be crowned inclose round, suffer.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kathar is rendered "to surround". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 20:43They surrounded the Benjamites, pursued them, and easily overtook them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
They surrounded the Benjamites, pursued them, and easily overtook them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.
Judges 20:43כִּתְּר֤וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- surrounding1
- they have encircled me1
- they surround1
- they surrounded1
- they will surround1
- wait1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יַכְתִּ֣רוּ1
- יַכְתִּ֥רוּ1
- כַּתַּר־1
- כִּתְּר֤וּ1
- כִּתְּרֽוּנִי׃1
- מַכְתִּ֣יר1
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVhi3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1HVhrmsa
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVpp3cp
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVpp3cp/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpv2ms
Judges
one use
They surrounded the Benjamites, pursued them, and easily overtook them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.
- כִּתְּר֤וּkiteruverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they surrounded
Job
one use
“Bear with me a little longer, and I will show you that there is more to be said on God’s behalf.
- כַּתַּר־katar-verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: wait
Psalms
two uses
Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
- כִּתְּרֽוּנִי׃kiteruniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have encircled me
Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.
- יַכְתִּ֣רוּyakhtiruverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will surround
Proverbs
one use
The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
- יַכְתִּ֥רוּyakhtiruverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they surround
Habakkuk
one use
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
- מַכְתִּ֣ירmakhtirverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: surrounding
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.