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Strong's #3803 - כָּתַר
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- to surround
- (Piel) to surround
- (Hiphil) to surround, encircle
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2300) rtk (כתר KTR) AC: Surround CO: Crown AB: ?
V) rtk (כתר KTR) - Surround: KJV (7): (vf: Hiphil, Piel) compass, inclose, beset, suffer, crown - Strongs: H3803 (כָּתַר)
Nm) rtk (כתר KTR) - Crown: As encircling the head. KJV (3): crown - Strongs: H3804 (כֶּתֶר)
gf2) trtfk (כותרת KWTRT) - Capital: The top of a pillar as a crown. KJV (24): chapiter - Strongs: H3805 (כֹּתֶרֶת)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Pi`el), (Aramaic כַּתַּר Pa`el, wait, hope for; 
Pa`el wait, await, remain: i.e. perhaps surrounded expectantly, see Job 36:2 below) —
Pi`el Perfect 3 plural כִּתְּרוּ Judges 20:43 of surrounding an enemy; suffix כִּתְּרוּנִי Psalm 22:13 (in figurative; "" סְבָבוּנִי); Imperative כַּתַּרלִֿי Job 36:2 wait, I pray (as in Aramaic)
Hiph`il Imperfect 3 masculine plural בִּי יַכְּתִּרוּצַדִּיקִים Psalm 142:8 dubious, throw out crowns (Ges§ 53 g), i.e. appear with crowns (denominative from כֶּתֶר; but this very late — only in Esther); figurative for triumph, because of me; but Gr Che יִתְמָּֽאֲרוּ (see I. פאר); יַכְתִּרוּ דָ֑עַת Proverbs 14:18 dubious, Thes De and others throw out knowledge as a crown, make knowledge their crown (denominative from כֶּתֶר; but see above), Now, encompass knowledge, i.e. possess it ("" נָָֽחֲלוּ); sense good, but meaning of ׳כ without "". Participle מַכְתִּיר surrounding (as Pi`el) Habakkuk 1:4 (with accusative of enemy).
כָּתַר unused in Kal; prop. to surround, i.q. עָטַר, see a long series of connected roots under the word אָזַר.
Piel
(1) to surround, to environ, in a hostile sense, Judges 20:43; Psalms 22:13.
(2) to wait, as in Syriac and Chaldee, prob. from the idea of going round; comp. חוּל No. 7, and יָחַל Job 36:2.
Hiphil
(1) i.q. Piel No. 1, in a hostile sense, Habakkuk 1:4 but in a good sense, Psa. 142:8, followed by בְּ.
(2) to put on as a crown, to crown oneself with anything (see כֶּתֶר ). Proverbs 14:18, יַכְתִּירוּ דַעַת עֲרוּמִים “the prudent are crowned with knowledge.”
Hence כֹּתֶרֶת, and
