To gather
כְּנַשׁStrong’s H3673kanash (ka-nash)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kanash is the Aramaic word usually translated “gather” and “gathered”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.”
Meaning
- To gather(P'al) to gather · (Ithpael) gathered (participle)
How it's translated
- to gather 1
- gathered 1
- and gathered 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
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Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:3In contextThen the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
- Daniel 3:27In contextAnd the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
Aramaic dictionary
כְּנַשׁ kanash · to gather
1) to gather 1a) (P'al) to gather 1b) (Ithpael) gathered (participle)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.