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To gather

קָהַלStrong’s H6950

qahal (qa-hal)

Appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Qahal is the Hebrew word usually translated “assembled”, “called together” and “assemble”. It appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament.

“And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.”
Exodus 32:1 KJV
Meaning
  1. To assemble, gather(Niphal) to assemble · (Hiphil) to summon an assembly
How it's translated
  • and they assembled 8
  • and he called together 5
  • assemble 4
  • they assembled 4
  • and it assembled 3
  • and he assembled 2
  • he called together 2
  • they summoned 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 9
  • Esther 5
  • 2 Chronicles 4
  • Deuteronomy 3
  • 1 Kings 3
  • 1 Chronicles 3

14 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 39 verses, by book
Exodus 2
32:135:1
Leviticus 2
8:38:4
Deuteronomy 3
4:1031:1231:28
Joshua 2
18:122:12
Judges 1
20:1
2 Samuel 1
20:14
1 Kings 3
8:18:212:21
1 Chronicles 3
13:515:328:1
2 Chronicles 4
5:25:311:120:26
Job 1
11:10
Jeremiah 1
26:9
Ezekiel 2
38:738:13
Hebrew dictionary

קָהַל qahal · to gather

1) to assemble, gather 1a) (Niphal) to assemble 1a1) for religious reasons 1a2) for political reasons 1b) (Hiphil) to summon an assembly 1b1) for war, judgment 1b2) for religious purposes Also means: qa.lah (קָלַהּ "to gather" H7035)

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

  1. 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
  2. To get in harvest; to reap or cut and bring into barns or stores. Leviticus 25:20
  3. To pick up; to glean; to get in small parcels and bring together.“Gather out the stones” Isaiah 62:10
  4. 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”
  1. To assemble; to congregate; to bring persons into one place. Ezekiel 22:19
  2. To collect in abundance; to accumulate; to amass.“I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings” Ecclesiastes 2:8
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. To bring into one body or interest.“Yet will I gather others to him” Isaiah 56:8
  6. To draw together from a state of expansion or diffusion; to contract.
  7. To gain.
  8. To pucker; to plait.
  9. 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
  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.

  1. To increase; to grow larger by accretion of like matter.
  2. To assemble.
  3. 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.