to unite
cha.var describes joining parts into a whole and entering or being held in an association.
The dominant usage concerns fastening or joining material parts so that curtains, a tent, shoulder pieces, wings, or a city form a connected whole. It also describes people or groups entering an alliance, and it can portray a person or thing as joined to a larger company or object.
Senses in use
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Joining material parts into one whole · dominant
In Exodus 26:3, the Qal active participles describe curtains set "one to another," while Exodus 26:11 uses a Piel sequential perfect for bringing clasps into loops so that the tent becomes one. The same construction-focused use appears where curtains are joined with clasps in Exodus 36:13 and where wings join another in Ezekiel 1:11.
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Entering an alliance or combined action · common
In 2 Chronicles 20:35, the Hithpael perfect occurs in the clause where Jehoshaphat allied himself with Ahaziah; 2 Chronicles 20:36 then places a Piel sequential imperfect in their shipbuilding purpose. Daniel 11:6 and Daniel 11:23 likewise place Hithpael forms in clauses the APB renders as forming or making an alliance.
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Being joined to a company or object · occasional
Ecclesiastes 9:4 uses a Pual imperfect in the statement about whoever is joined to all the living. Hosea 4:17 uses a Qal passive participle in the clause that identifies Ephraim as united to idols.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the construction passages, the APB uses wording such as "joined," "join," "united," and "bound firmly together"; in political clauses it uses "allied" and "alliance." Because the APB renders whole verses rather than marking individual words, these phrases confirm the clauses' contexts rather than supplying separate definitions.