Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to collect; hence, to enfold: -gather (together), heap up, wrap self.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
כָּנַס (ka.nas) — to gather. 1) to gather, collect, wrap 1a) (Qal) to gather 1b) (Piel) to gather 1c) (Hithpael) to gather together, wrap oneself up Aramaic equivalent: ka.nash (כְּנַשׁ "to gather" H3673)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Gather | verb qal, verb pi | ≈ אסף
to gather, to assemble causative action by which humans or deities cause humans or objects to come together in one location
1CH 22:2 · NEH 12:44 · EST 4:16 · PSA 33:7 · PSA 147:2 · ECC 2:8 · ECC 2:26 · ECC 3:5 · EZK 22:21 · EZK 39:28
Stance | verb hit
to curl up = action by which humans pull up their legs to make themselves as small as possible ► to keep warm during the night
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[כָּנַס] vb. gather, collect Qal gather
Pi. and I will gather you together
Hithp. and the covering is (too) narrow when one gathers oneself together, i.e. the bed is too short to stretch oneself at full length, and when one (perforce) draws up the feet, the covering becomes too narrow.
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