Gathering
אֹ֫סֵףStrong’s H0625oseph (o-seph)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Oseph is the Hebrew word usually translated “gathering”, “gathering of” and “like gathering of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.”
Meaning
- Gathering, collection, harvest
How it's translated
- gathering 1
- gathering of 1
- like gathering of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Micah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 33:4And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
- Micah 7:1Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
Hebrew dictionary
אֹ֫סֵף oseph · gathering
gathering, collection, harvest
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gathering” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GATH'ERING, participle present
tense Collecting; assembling; drawing together; plaiting; wrinkling.
All definitions and other forms of “gathering”
GATH'ERING, noun
The act of collecting or assembling.
- Collection; a crowd; an assembly.
- Charitable contribution. 1 Corinthians 16:2
- A tumor suppurated or maturated; a collection of pus; an abscess.
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.