laqat (to gather)

Meaning

To pick up, gather, glean, gather up(Qal) · (Piel) · (Pual) to be picked up · (Hithpael) to collect oneself

How it's translated

and they gathered 3
you will gather 3
to glean 3
gather 2
to gather 2
and she gleaned 2
she had gleaned 2
and he gathered up 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Ruth 10
Exodus 9
Leviticus 3
Genesis 2
Judges 2
Isaiah 2

12 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Genesis 47:14And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
Exodus 16:4Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
Exodus 16:5And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
Exodus 16:16This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
Exodus 16:17And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
Exodus 16:18And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.

All 34 verses, by book

Genesis 2: 31:46 47:14
Exodus 9: 16:4 16:5 16:16 16:17 16:18 16:21 16:22 16:26 16:27
Leviticus 3: 19:9 19:10 23:22
Numbers 1: 11:8
Judges 2: 1:7 11:3
Ruth 10: 2:2 2:3 2:7 2:8 2:15 2:16 2:17 2:18 2:19 2:23
1 Samuel 1: 20:38
2 Kings 1: 4:39
Psalms 1: 104:28
Song of Solomon 1: 6:2
Isaiah 2: 17:5 27:12
Jeremiah 1: 7:18

Hebrew dictionary

לָקַט laqat · to gather

1) to pick up, gather, glean, gather up 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to pick up, gather 1a2) to glean 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to gather, gather up 1b2) to collect (money) 1b3) to glean 1c) (Pual) to be picked up 1d) (Hithpael) to collect oneself

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.