To gather
קָבַץStrong’s H6908qavats (qa-vats)
Appears in 121 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qavats is the Hebrew word usually translated “gathered”, “gathered together” and “gather”. It appears in 121 verses of the Old Testament.
“I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.”
Meaning
- To gather, assemble(Qal) to gather, collect, assemble · (Niphal) · (Piel) to gather, gather together, take away · (Pual) to be gathered together · (Hithpael) to gather together, be gathered together
How it's translated
- and he gathered 10
- and they gathered together 10
- and i will gather 9
- and they gathered 4
- i will gather 4
- they have gathered together 3
- gather 3
- and he assembled 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 18
- Ezekiel 15
- 2 Chronicles 10
- 1 Samuel 9
- Jeremiah 8
- 1 Kings 5
25 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 10:10In contextI will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them.
- Genesis 41:35And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
- Genesis 41:48And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
- Genesis 49:2Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
- Deuteronomy 13:16And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
- Deuteronomy 30:3That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
All 121 verses, by book
- Habakkuk 1
- 2:5
Hebrew dictionary
קָבַץ qavats · to gather
1) to gather, assemble 1a) (Qal) to gather, collect, assemble 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to assemble, gather 1b2) to be gathered 1c) (Piel) to gather, gather together, take away 1d) (Pual) to be gathered together 1e) (Hithpael) to gather together, be gathered together
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.