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Lexicon :: Strong's H6950 - qāhal

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קָהַל
Transliteration
qāhal
Pronunciation
'kaw-hal'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1991

Strong’s Definitions

קָהַל qâhal, 'kaw-hal'; a primitive root; to convoke:—assemble (selves) (together), gather (selves) (together).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x

The KJV translates Strong's H6950 in the following manner: (gather, assemble) together (14x), gather (16x), assembled (9x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x
The KJV translates Strong's H6950 in the following manner: (gather, assemble) together (14x), gather (16x), assembled (9x).

  1. to assemble, gather

    1. (Niphal) to assemble

      1. for religious reasons

      2. for political reasons

    2. (Hiphil) to summon an assembly

      1. for war, judgment

      2. for religious purposes

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קָהַל qâhal, 'kaw-hal'; a primitive root; to convoke:—assemble (selves) (together), gather (selves) (together).
STRONGS H6950: Abbreviations
† [קָהַל] verb denominative (Gerber107 f.) assemble as a קָהָל; —
Niph. Perfect 3rd person masculine plural נִקְהֲלוּ Esther 9:2 + 3 times; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular וַיִּקָּהֵל Exodus 32:1; Jeremiah 26:9; 3rd person masculine plural וַיִּקָּֽהֲלוּ 2 Samuel 20:14 Qr (Kt ויקלהו, compare HPS), etc.; Infinitive construct הִקָּהֵל Numbers 17:7; Esther 8:11; Participle plural נִקְהָלִים Ezekiel 38:7; — assemble as a קָהָל :
1.
a. for conflict or war 2 Samuel 20:14 (Qr; see above), Esther 8:11; Esther 9:2, 15, 16, 18; with עַל person Ezekiel 38:7, accusative of location Joshua 22:12; Judges 20:1.
b. rebellion, with עַל person Numbers 16:3; Numbers 17:7; Numbers 20:2 (P), possibly also Exodus 32:1 (J; most, unto Aaron).
2. for religious purposes: to erect tent of meeting, accusative of location Joshua 18:1 (P); hear word of י׳, with אֶל location Leviticus 8:4 (P), ב location + אֶל person Jeremiah 26:9; for festival, אֶל person 1 Kings 8:2 2 Chronicles 5:3; לְ local 2 Chronicles 20:26.
Hiph. Perfect 2nd person masculine singular הִקְהַלְתָּ Ezekiel 38:13, וְהִקְהַלְתָּ֫ Numbers 8:9; 3rd person masculine plural הִקְהִילוּ Numbers 1:18; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַקְהִיל Job 11:10; אָז יַקְהֵל 1 Kings 8:1 = יַקְהֵיל 2 Chronicles 5:2; וַיַּקְהֵל Exodus 35:1 + (
Qal Imperfect in i according to BaNB p. 147); plural וַיַּקְהִלוּ Numbers 20:10; Imperative masculine singular הַקְהֵל Leviticus 8:3 +, etc.; Infinitive construct הַקְהִיל Numbers 10:7; — summon an assembly:
1.
a. for judgment Job 11:10.
b. for war 1 Kings 12:21 2 Chronicles 11:1; Ezekiel 38:13.
2. for religious purposes: with accusative אֶתהַֿקָּהָל Numbers 10:7, + אֶל location Numbers 20:10, with accusative (כָּלֿ)הָעֵדָה Exodus 35:1; Numbers 1:18; Numbers 8:9; Numbers 20:8 (P), + אל location Leviticus 8:3; Numbers 16:19 (P); with accusative הָעָם Deuteronomy 4:10; Deuteronomy 31:12; כָּליֿשׂראל 1 Chronicles 13:5; 1 Chronicles 15:3; elders of tribes Deuteronomy 31:28, of Israel 1 Kings 8:1 2 Chronicles 5:2; princes of Israel 1 Chronicles 28:1.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

32:1; 32:1; 35:1; 35:1

Leviticus

8:3; 8:3; 8:4

Numbers

1:18; 1:18; 8:9; 8:9; 10:7; 10:7; 16:3; 16:19; 17:7; 17:7; 20:2; 20:8; 20:10; 20:10

Deuteronomy

4:10; 31:12; 31:28

Joshua

18:1; 22:12

Judges

20:1

2 Samuel

20:14; 20:14

1 Kings

8:1; 8:1; 8:2; 12:21

1 Chronicles

13:5; 15:3; 28:1

2 Chronicles

5:2; 5:2; 5:3; 11:1; 20:26

Esther

8:11; 8:11; 9:2; 9:2; 9:15; 9:16; 9:18

Job

11:10; 11:10

Jeremiah

26:9; 26:9

Ezekiel

38:7; 38:7; 38:13; 38:13

H6950

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6950 matches the Hebrew קָהַל (qāhal),
which occurs 39 times in 39 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:1 - When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods[fn] who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:1 - Moses assembled the whole Israelite community and said to them, “These are the things the LORD has commanded you to do:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:3 - and gather the entire assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:4 - Moses did as the LORD commanded him, and the assembly gathered at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people registered their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9 - Bring the Levites to the front of the tent of meeting and assemble the whole Israelite community.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:7 - To gather the assembly, blow the trumpets, but not with the signal for setting out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:3 - They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the LORD’s assembly?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:19 - When Korah had gathered all his followers in opposition to them at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the glory of the LORD appeared to the entire assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:42

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:42 - But when the assembly gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron and turned toward the tent of meeting, suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:2 - Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:8 - “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10 - He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:10 - Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:12 - Assemble the people—men, women and children, and the foreigners residing in your towns—so they can listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and follow carefully all the words of this law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:28 - Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officials, so that I can speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth to testify against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:1 - The whole assembly of the Israelites gathered at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The country was brought under their control,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:12 - the whole assembly of Israel gathered at Shiloh to go to war against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:1 - Then all Israel from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came together as one and assembled before the LORD in Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:14 - Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel Beth Maakah and through the entire region of the Bikrites,[fn] who gathered together and followed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:1 - Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD’s covenant from Zion, the City of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:2 - All the Israelites came together to King Solomon at the time of the festival in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:21 - When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered all Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—a hundred and eighty thousand able young men—to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam son of Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:5 - So David assembled all Israel, from the Shihor River in Egypt to Lebo Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:3 - David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD to the place he had prepared for it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:1 - David summoned all the officials of Israel to assemble at Jerusalem: the officers over the tribes, the commanders of the divisions in the service of the king, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and the officials in charge of all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, together with the palace officials, the warriors and all the brave fighting men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 5:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:2 - Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD’s covenant from Zion, the City of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 5:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:3 - And all the Israelites came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:1 - When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered Judah and Benjamin—a hundred and eighty thousand able young men—to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:26 - On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berakah, where they praised the LORD. This is why it is called the Valley of Berakah[fn] to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:11 - The king’s edict granted the Jews in every city the right to assemble and protect themselves; to destroy, kill and annihilate the armed men of any nationality or province who might attack them and their women and children,[fn] and to plunder the property of their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:2 - The Jews assembled in their cities in all the provinces of King Xerxes to attack those determined to destroy them. No one could stand against them, because the people of all the other nationalities were afraid of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:15 - The Jews in Susa came together on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they put to death in Susa three hundred men, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:16 - Meanwhile, the remainder of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces also assembled to protect themselves and get relief from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of them but did not lay their hands on the plunder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:18 - The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth, and then on the fifteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:10 - “If he comes along and confines you in prison and convenes a court, who can oppose him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - Why do you prophesy in the LORD’s name that this house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted?” And all the people crowded around Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:7 - “ ‘Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:13 - Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her villages[fn] will say to you, “Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?” ’
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