Quick Definition
to gather
Strong's Definition
to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), [idiom] generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, [idiom] surely, take (away, into, up), [idiom] utterly, withdraw.
TWOT Reference: 140
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
אָסַף (a.saph) — to gather. 1) to gather, receive, remove, gather in 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to gather, collect 1a2) to gather (an individual into company of others) 1a3) to bring up the rear 1a4) to gather and take away, remove, withdraw 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to assemble, be gathered 1b2) (pass of Qal 1a2) 1b2a) to be gathered to one's fathers 1b2b) to be brought in or into (association with others) 1b3) (pass of Qal 1a4) 1b3a) to be taken away, removed, perish 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to gather (harvest) 1c2) to take in, receive into 1c3) rearguard, rearward (subst) 1d) (Pual) to be gathered 1e) (Hithpael) to gather oneself or themselves
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · אָסִיף · אָסֹף · אֹסֶף · אֲסֵפָה · אֲסֻפָּה · אֲסַפְסֻף · אֶבְיָסָף · אֲבִיאָסָף · אָסָף
Gather | verb qal, verb nif, verb hit
to gather, to be assembled = process by which humans come together from different places and form a group for a common purpose, such as for a meeting or for war
GEN 34:30 · GEN 49:1 · EXO 32:26 · LEV 26:25 · DEU 33:5 · JOS 10:5 · JDG 6:33 · JDG 9:6 · JDG 10:17 · JDG 16:23 · JDG 20:11 · JDG 20:14 · 1SA 13:5 · 1SA 13:11 · 1SA 17:1 · 1SA 17:2 · 2SA 10:15 · 2SA 17:11 · 2SA 17:11 · 2SA 17:13 · 2SA 23:9 · 2SA 23:11 · 2KI 23:1 · 1CH 11:13 · 1CH 19:7 · 2CH 30:3 · 2CH 30:13 · EZR 3:1 · EZR 9:4 · NEH 8:1 · NEH 8:13 · NEH 9:1 · NEH 12:28 · PSA 35:15 · PSA 35:15 · PSA 47:10 · ISA 13:4 · ISA 43:9 · JER 4:5 · JER 8:14 · EZK 39:17 · AMO 3:9 · MIC 4:11 · ZEC 12:3
Gather | verb, verb nif, verb pi, verb pu'al | ≈ צרר · קבץ
to gather, to assemble, to accumulate, to harvest = to bring together people, animals, plants, and/or other things from different places for a common purpose
GEN 6:21 · GEN 29:3 · GEN 29:7 · GEN 29:8 · GEN 29:22 · GEN 42:17 · EXO 3:16 · EXO 4:29 · EXO 23:10 · EXO 23:16 · LEV 23:39 · LEV 25:3 · LEV 25:20 · NUM 11:16 · NUM 11:22 · NUM 11:24 · NUM 11:32 · NUM 11:32 · NUM 19:9 · NUM 19:10 · NUM 21:16 · NUM 21:23 · DEU 11:14 · DEU 16:13 · DEU 28:38 · JOS 2:18 · JOS 24:1 · JDG 3:13 · JDG 11:20 · JDG 18:25 · RUT 2:7 · 1SA 5:8 · 1SA 5:11 · 1SA 14:19 · 1SA 17:1 · 2SA 6:1 · 2SA 10:17 · 2SA 12:28 · 2SA 12:29 · 2SA 14:14 · 2SA 21:13 · 1KI 10:26 · 2KI 22:4 · 1CH 15:4 · 1CH 19:17 · 1CH 23:2 · 2CH 1:14 · 2CH 12:5 · 2CH 24:11 · 2CH 28:24 · 2CH 29:4 · 2CH 29:15 · 2CH 29:20 · 2CH 34:9 · 2CH 34:29 · JOB 27:19 · JOB 39:12 · PSA 39:7 · PSA 50:5 · PRO 27:25 · PRO 30:4 · ECC 2:26 · ISA 10:14 · ISA 10:14 · ISA 11:12 · ISA 17:5 · ISA 24:22 · ISA 33:4 · ISA 49:5 · ISA 62:9 · JER 8:2 · JER 8:13 · JER 9:21 · JER 10:17 · JER 12:9 · JER 21:4 · JER 25:33 · JER 40:10 · JER 40:12 · EZK 11:17 · EZK 24:4 · EZK 29:5 · EZK 38:12 · DAN 11:10 · HOS 10:10 · JOL 1:14 · JOL 2:16 · JOL 2:16 · MIC 2:12 · MIC 2:12 · MIC 4:6 · HAB 1:9 · HAB 1:15 · HAB 2:5 · ZEP 3:8 · ZEC 14:2 · ZEC 14:14
Safe | verb qal, verb pi
to bring up the rear, to form the rear guard = to march behind a group of travellers to gather the stragglers and keep the group safe from those who might attack from behind
Associate | verb qal, verb nif, verb pi
to accept, to receive, to take in = to accept a person or animal into one's home or community
EXO 9:19 · NUM 12:14 · NUM 12:15 · DEU 22:2 · JOS 20:4 · JDG 19:15 · JDG 19:18 · 1SA 14:52 · 2SA 11:27 · PSA 27:10
Move | verb nif | ≈ בוא
to return = to move back to the place where one comes from
NUM 11:30 · PSA 104:22 · ISA 60:20 · JER 47:6
Move | verb qal | ≈ שׂים
to take back, to withdraw = to cause something to move back to the place where it came from
Non-Exist | verb nif
to return, to rejoin (one's ancestors), to die literally: to return; hence: = to die and rejoin one's ancestors
GEN 25:8 · GEN 25:17 · GEN 35:29 · GEN 49:29 · GEN 49:33 · NUM 20:24 · NUM 20:26 · NUM 27:13 · NUM 27:13 · NUM 31:2 · DEU 32:50 · DEU 32:50 · JDG 2:10 · 2KI 22:20 · 2CH 34:28
Non-Exist | verb hif
to cause to return, to cause to rejoin (one's ancestors), to cause to die literally: to cause to return; hence: = to cause to die and rejoin one's ancestors
Non-Exist | verb nif
to be taken away, to die, to perish = process by which a person or animal is removed from existence; ◄ either in a natural and peaceful manner or in an unnatural and violent way
Non-Exist | ≈ סוף
to take away, to destroy, to sweep away = action by which someone removes another person from existence; ◄ by (a usually unnatural) death, aggression, hardship, disaster, destruction, or direct divine intervention; ► often as punishment
1SA 15:6 · PSA 26:9 · JER 8:13 · EZK 34:29 · ZEP 1:2 · ZEP 3:18
End | verb qal, verb nif | ≈ שׁבת · שׁוב
to take away, to withdraw = action by which someone brings an event to an end
GEN 30:23 · PSA 85:4 · ISA 4:1 · ISA 16:10 · JER 16:5 · JER 48:33 · JOL 2:10 · JOL 4:15
Strong | verb qal
to cure literally: to take away a person from a disease; hence: = to cure someone from a disease
1 JOB 27:19 MT HOTTP-C [1b] | RSV NIV NRSV "do no more" NJB REB "never again" [1m] 2 ZEP 1:2 This verse contains an unusual construction in that the verb סוף is accompanied by the qal infinitive absolute of אסף
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
אָסַף 209 vb. gather, remove Qal gather, collect
gather an individual into company of others
bring up the rear of
gather and take away, remove, withdraw
Niph. assemble, be gathered, reflex.
pass. of Qal 2
Pass. of Qal 4; be taken away, removed, perish
Pi. gather harvest
take in, receive into
as subst. rearguard, rearward
Pu. be gathered, of men
Hithp. gather themselves
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