To gather
רָכַשׁStrong’s H7408rakhash (ra-khash)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rakhash is the Hebrew word usually translated “had accumulated”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to collect or gather property
How it's translated
- he had accumulated 3
- they had accumulated 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 4
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Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 31:18And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 36:6And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
- Genesis 46:6And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
Hebrew dictionary
רָכַשׁ rakhash · to gather
(Qal) to collect or gather property
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.