To gather
כָּנַסStrong’s H3664kanas (ka-nas)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kanas is the Hebrew word usually translated “gather”, “gathering” and “gathers”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.”
Meaning
- To gather, collect, wrap(Qal) to gather · (Piel) to gather · (Hithpael) to gather together, wrap oneself up
How it's translated
- to gather 3
- gather 1
- gathering 1
- he gathers 1
- i gathered 1
- and to collect 1
- when wraps oneself up 1
- and i will gather 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 3
- Psalms 2
- Ezekiel 2
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Esther 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 12:44And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
- Esther 4:16Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
- Psalms 33:7He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
- Psalms 147:2The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
- Ecclesiastes 2:8I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
- Ecclesiastes 2:26For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Hebrew dictionary
כָּנַס kanas · to gather
1) to gather, collect, wrap 1a) (Qal) to gather 1b) (Piel) to gather 1c) (Hithpael) to gather together, wrap oneself up Aramaic equivalent: ka.nash (כְּנַשׁ "to gather" H3673)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gather” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GATH'ER, verb transitive
- To bring together; to collect a number of separate things into one place or into one aggregate body.“Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap” Genesis 31:46
- To get in harvest; to reap or cut and bring into barns or stores. Leviticus 25:20
- To pick up; to glean; to get in small parcels and bring together.“Gather out the stones” Isaiah 62:10
- To pluck; to collect by cropping, picking or plucking.“Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” Matthew 7:16
All definitions and other forms of “gather”
- To assemble; to congregate; to bring persons into one place. Ezekiel 22:19
- To collect in abundance; to accumulate; to amass.“I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings” Ecclesiastes 2:8
- To select and take; to separate from others and bring together.“Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen” Psalms 106:47
- To sweep together.“The kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind” Matthew 13:47
- To bring into one body or interest.“Yet will I gather others to him” Isaiah 56:8
- To draw together from a state of expansion or diffusion; to contract.
- To gain.
- To pucker; to plait.
- To deduce by inference; to collect or learn by reasoning.“After he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them” Acts 16:10
- To coil as a serpent.
GATH'ER, verb intransitive
To collect; to unite; to increase; to be condensed. The clouds gather in the west.
- To increase; to grow larger by accretion of like matter.
- To assemble.
- To generate pus or matter. [See Gathering.]
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.