To gather
קָשַׁשׁStrong’s H7197qashash (qa-shash)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qashash is the Hebrew word usually translated “gathering”, “may gather” and “gather”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.”
Meaning
- To gather, collect, gather stubble or sticks
- To gather, assemble(Qal) to gather together · (Hithpoel) to gather oneself together
How it's translated
- gathering 4
- and they may gather 1
- to gather 1
- gather yourselves together 1
- and gather together 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Numbers 2
- 1 Kings 2
- Zephaniah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 5:12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
- Numbers 15:32And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
- Numbers 15:33And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
- 1 Kings 17:10So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
- 1 Kings 17:12And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
- Zephaniah 2:1Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
Hebrew dictionary
קָשַׁשׁ qashash · to gather
to gather, collect, gather stubble or sticks
קָשַׁשׁ qashash · to assemble
1) to gather, assemble 1a) (Qal) to gather together 1b) (Hithpoel) to gather oneself 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.