qahal (assembly) · Rightly

Meaning

Assembly, company, congregation, convocationassembly · company (of returning exiles) · congregation

How it's translated

the assembly 41
assembly of 21
in assembly of 14
a company 7
an assembly 4
in assembly 4
company your 4
in the assembly 3

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

Where it's used most

2 Chronicles 23
Ezekiel 15
Numbers 12
Deuteronomy 9
Psalms 9
1 Chronicles 6

21 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Genesis 35:11And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
Genesis 48:4And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
Genesis 49:6O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Exodus 12:6And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Exodus 16:3And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Leviticus 4:13And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;

All 116 verses, by book

Genesis 4: 28:3 35:11 48:4 49:6
Exodus 2: 12:6 16:3
Leviticus 5: 4:13 4:14 4:21 16:17 16:33
Numbers 12: 10:7 14:5 15:15 16:3 16:33 16:47 19:20 20:4 20:6 20:10 20:12 22:4
Deuteronomy 9: 5:22 9:10 10:4 18:16 23:1 23:2 23:3 23:8 31:30
Joshua 1: 8:35
Judges 3: 20:2 21:5 21:8
1 Samuel 1: 17:47
1 Kings 5: 8:14 8:22 8:55 8:65 12:3
1 Chronicles 6: 13:2 13:4 28:8 29:1 29:10 29:20
2 Chronicles 23: 1:3 1:5 6:3 6:12 6:13 7:8 20:5 20:14 23:3 24:6 28:14 29:23 29:28 29:31 29:32 30:2 30:4 30:13 30:17 30:23 30:24 30:25 31:18
Ezra 5: 2:64 10:1 10:8 10:12 10:14
Nehemiah 5: 5:13 7:66 8:2 8:17 13:1
Job 1: 30:28
Psalms 9: 22:22 22:25 26:5 35:18 40:9 40:10 89:5 107:32 149:1
Proverbs 3: 5:14 21:16 26:26
Jeremiah 4: 26:17 31:8 44:15 50:9
Lamentations 1: 1:10
Ezekiel 15: 16:40 17:17 23:24 23:46 23:47 26:7 27:27 27:34 32:3 32:22 32:23 38:4 38:7 38:13 38:15
Joel 1: 2:16
Micah 1: 2:5

Hebrew dictionary

קָהָל qahal · assembly

1) assembly, company, congregation, convocation 1a) assembly 1a1) for evil counsel, war or invasion, religious purposes 1b) company (of returning exiles) 1c) congregation 1c1) as organised body

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “assembly” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

ASSEM'BLY, noun

A company or collection of individuals, in the same place; usually for the same purpose.
A congregation or religious society convened.
In some of the United States, the legislature, consisting of different houses or branches, whether in session or not.
a collection of persons for amusement; as a dancing assembly

All definitions

A convocation, convention or council of ministers and ruling elders delegated from each presbytery; as the General assembly of Scotland or of the United States.
In armies, the second beating of the drum before a march, when the soldiers strike their tents.
An assemblage. [Not in use.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.