lakat · gather, glean

What it means

lakat (לָקַט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gather, glean”.

Gather up from the ground, pick up; glean.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To gather up from the ground or field what is scattered, to carry it away.
2. To gather up grain left by the reapers.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• gather ×15
• gathered ×9
• glean ×8
• gleaned ×2
• she had gleaned ×2
• like one who gleans ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×9
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×1
• Judges×2
• Ruth×12
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×2
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 31:46

  And Jacob said to his brothers, “Gather stones.” They took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap.

• Genesis 47:14

  Joseph gathered up all the silver that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain that they were buying; and Joseph brought the silver into the house of Pharaoh.

• Exodus 16:4

  YHWH said to Moses, “Look, I am going to rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, so that I may test them, whether they will walk in my instruction or not.

• Exodus 16:5

  And on the sixth day they shall prepare what they bring in, and it will be twice as much as they gather each day.”

• Exodus 16:16

  This is the thing that YHWH has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one according to what he can eat, an omer per head, according to the number of your persons; each one for those in his tent you shall take.’ ”

• Exodus 16:17

  The sons of Israel did so, and they gathered, some much and some little.

• Exodus 16:18

  But when they measured it with the omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little had no lack; each gathered according to what he could eat.

• Exodus 16:21

  They gathered it morning by morning, each according to what he could eat; and when the sun grew hot, it melted.

• Exodus 16:22

  And on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the chiefs of the community came and told Moses.

• Exodus 16:26

  Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none on it.”

• Exodus 16:27

  On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found nothing.

• Leviticus 19:9

  And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not finish reaping the edge of your field, and the gleanings of your harvest you shall not gather.

• Leviticus 19:10

  And your vineyard you shall not strip bare, and the fallen grapes of your vineyard you shall not gather; for the poor and for the resident alien you shall leave them. I am YHWH your Elohim.

• Leviticus 23:22

  And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not finish reaping the edge of your field, and the gleanings of your harvest you shall not gather; for the poor and for the resident alien you shall leave them. I am YHWH your Elohim.”

• Numbers 11:8

  The people would go about and gather it, and grind it in mills or beat it in a mortar, and boil it in pots, and make it into cakes; and its taste was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

• Judges 1:7

  Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings, with the thumbs of their hands and of their feet cut off, used to gather scraps under my table. As I have done, so Elohim has repaid me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

• Judges 11:3

  Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob; and there gathered around Jephthah empty men, and they went out with him.

• Ruth 2:2

  And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go, please, to the field and glean among the ears of grain behind the one in whose eyes I find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

• Ruth 2:3

  So she went, came, and gleaned in the field behind the reapers; and her chance happened to be the plot of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech.

• Ruth 2:7

  She said, ‘Let me glean, please, and I will gather among the sheaves behind the reapers.’ So she came and has been standing from the morning until now; she has sat in the house only a little.”

• Ruth 2:8

  Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Have you not heard, my daughter? Do not go to glean in another field, and also do not pass on from here; and so cling to my young women.

• Ruth 2:15

  She rose to glean, and Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not put her to shame.

• Ruth 2:16

  And also pull out for her some from the bundles and leave them and let her glean them, and do not rebuke her.”

• Ruth 2:17

  So she gleaned in the field until evening, and she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

• Ruth 2:18

  She picked it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. Then she brought out and gave her what she had left over after she was satisfied.

• Ruth 2:19

  Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? May the one who took notice of you be blessed.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, “The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

• Ruth 2:23

  So she clung to the young women of Boaz to glean until the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

• 1 Samuel 20:38

  Jonathan called after the boy, “Quickly, hurry, do not stand still!” And the boy of Jonathan gathered the arrows and came to his master.

• 2 Kings 4:39

  One went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine and gathered from it wild gourds, his garment full, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, for they did not know what they were.

• Psalms 104:28

  You give to them, they gather it up; you open your hand, they are satisfied with good.

• Song of Songs 6:2

  My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the garden beds of balsam, to pasture in the gardens and to gather lilies.

• Isaiah 17:5

  And it will be as when one gathers the harvest, the standing grain, and his arm reaps the ears; and it will be like one who gleans ears in the valley of Rephaim.

• Isaiah 27:12

  And it will happen on that day that YHWH will beat out the grain from the flowing stream of the River to the torrent of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one, sons of Israel.

• Jeremiah 7:18

  The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of the heavens; and they pour out libations to other gods to provoke me to anger.

And 3 more times.