Collection
אֲסֻפָּהStrong’s H0627asuppah (a-sup-pah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Asuppah is the Hebrew word usually translated “collections”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.”
Meaning
- Collection
How it's translated
- collections 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אֲסֻפָּה asuppah · collection
collection
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “collection” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COLLECTION, noun
- The act of gathering, or assembling.
- The body formed by gathering; an assemblage, or assembly; a crowd; as a collection of men.
- A contribution; a sum collected for a charitable purpose.“Now concerning the collection for the saints” 1 Corinthians 16:1
- A gathering, as of matter in an abscess.
All definitions
- The act of deducing consequences; reasoning; inference.
- A corollary; a consectary; a deduction from premises; consequence.
- A book compiled from other books, by the putting together of parts; a compilation; as a collection of essays or sermons.
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.