This is a thin, old root. Its verb strand means to pluck or gather in (to harvest figs), kept alive mostly in elevated or archaic Hebrew. Sitting alongside it on the same letters is the everyday noun arye, the lion (also Leo, the zodiac sign). Whether the lion is truly built on "the gatherer/seizer" is debated, so we keep it as a shared-spelling cousin rather than claiming a forced link. The page is short because the verified family is short. Every word is checked against pealim, niqqud included.
The same root runs through the verb system. Each binyan is a voice: it bends the one idea into active, passive, causative or reciprocal. Tap to hear.
Only the plain pa'al survives, and even that is archaic or literary: this is a final-ה (lamed-he) verb, which is why the infinitive ends in וֹת rather than the usual ֹב/ֹר. No passive, intensive or causative tracks are lexicalized; the root simply did not grow a full verb family in modern Hebrew.
Same root letters, different noun moulds (mishkalim). The mould tells you the function: who does it, the act of doing it, or the thing produced.
Strip the prefixes, suffixes and vowels. Three consonants remain, and the meaning lives there.