kavats · gather

What it means

kavats (קָבַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gather”.

Bring together.

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 bring people to one place, or to come together there.
2. To gather things, like grain.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To gather, to bring together, to collect.

• Gathering the grain in the years of plenty Genesis 41:35
• Gathering the people at Mizpah or at Carmel 1 Samuel 7:51 Kings 18:20
• “He will gather you again from all the peoples” Deuteronomy 30:3Ezekiel 36:24
• The shepherd who gathers the lambs Isaiah 40:11

How we translate it

“Gather” 53 times, “gathered” 51, “Assemble” 9, “gathers” 4, “gathering” 3… This edition sets קבץ = “gather”, together with its opposite הֵפִיץ, “scatter” (“where YHWH your Elohim has scattered you”, Deuteronomy 30:3).

How it is translated

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

• gather ×53
• gathered ×51
• Assemble ×9
• gathers ×4
• gathering ×3
• assembles ×1
• be collected ×1
• bring together ×1
• grow pale ×1
• he has assembled them ×1
• others ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×2
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×10
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×5
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×11
• Ezra×5
• Nehemiah×5
• Esther×3
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×20
• Jeremiah×8
• Ezekiel×16
• Hosea×3
• Joel×4
• Micah×5
• Nahum×2
• Habakkuk×1
• Zephaniah×3
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 41:35

  Let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up grain under the hand of Pharaoh, as food in the cities, and let them keep it.

• Genesis 41:48

  He gathered all the food of the seven years that were in the land of Egypt, and put food in the cities; the food of the fields of each city that surrounded it he put in it.

• Genesis 49:2

  Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to Israel your father.

• Deuteronomy 13:16

  All its spoil you shall gather into the middle of its square, and you shall burn with fire the city and all its spoil as a whole offering to YHWH your Elohim, and it shall be a heap of ruins forever; it shall not be rebuilt again.

• Deuteronomy 30:3

  then YHWH your Elohim will restore your captivity and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where YHWH your Elohim has scattered you.

• Deuteronomy 30:4

  If your banished ones are at the end of the heavens, from there YHWH your Elohim will gather you, and from there he will take you.

• Joshua 9:2

  they gathered together to fight with Joshua and with Israel with one voice.

• Joshua 10:6

  The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Do not let your hands go from your servants. Come up to us quickly, save us, and help us, for all the kings of the Amorite who live in the hill country have gathered against us.”

• Judges 9:47

  It was told to Abimelech that all the lords of the tower of Shechem had gathered together.

• Judges 12:4

  Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim, and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they had said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, Gilead, in the midst of Ephraim, in the midst of Manasseh.”

• 1 Samuel 7:5

  And Samuel said, “Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray for you to YHWH.”

• 1 Samuel 7:6

  So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before YHWH, and they fasted on that day and said there, “We have sinned against YHWH.” And Samuel judged the sons of Israel at Mizpah.

• 1 Samuel 7:7

  And the Philistines heard that the sons of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, and the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And the sons of Israel heard it and were afraid because of the Philistines.

• 1 Samuel 8:4

  Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah

• 1 Samuel 22:2

  There gathered to him every man in distress, every man who had a creditor, and every man bitter of soul, and he became commander over them; and there were with him about four hundred men.

• 1 Samuel 25:1

  Samuel died, and all Israel gathered and lamented for him and buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

• 1 Samuel 28:1

  In those days the Philistines gathered their camps for the army, to fight against Israel. Achish said to David, “Know for certain that with me you will go out in the camp, you and your men.”

• 1 Samuel 28:4

  The Philistines gathered and came and camped at Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel, and they camped at Gilboa.

• 1 Samuel 29:1

  The Philistines gathered all their camps at Aphek, and Israel was camped by the spring that is in Jezreel.

• 2 Samuel 2:25

  The sons of Benjamin gathered behind Abner and became one band, and they stood on the top of a hill.

• 2 Samuel 2:30

  And Joab returned from following Abner and gathered all the people; and of the servants of David nineteen men were missing, and Asahel.

• 2 Samuel 3:21

  Abner said to David, “Let me arise and go and gather to my lord the king all Israel, that they may make a covenant with you, and you will reign over all that your soul desires.” So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.

• 1 Kings 11:24

  And he gathered men to himself and became chief of a band, when David killed them; and they went to Damascus and lived there, and they reigned in Damascus.

• 1 Kings 18:19

  Now then, send, gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, and the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at the table of Jezebel.”

• 1 Kings 18:20

  So Ahab sent word among all the sons of Israel and gathered the prophets at Mount Carmel.

• 1 Kings 20:1

  Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his troops; thirty and two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. He went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.

• 1 Kings 22:6

  Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to war, or shall I refrain?” They said, “Go up, and Adonai will give it into the hand of the king.”

• 2 Kings 6:24

  And it happened after this that Ben-hadad, king of Aram, gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria.

• 2 Kings 10:18

  Jehu gathered all the people and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much.

• 1 Chronicles 11:1

  Then all Israel gathered to David at Hebron, saying, “Look, we are your bone and your flesh.

• 1 Chronicles 13:2

  David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is from YHWH our Elohim, let us send everywhere to our brothers who remain in all the lands of Israel, and with them to the priests and the Levites in the cities with their pasturelands, so that they may gather to us;

• 1 Chronicles 16:35

  And say, ‘Save us, Elohim of our salvation; gather us and deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to glory in your praise.’

• 2 Chronicles 13:7

  Empty men, worthless fellows, gathered around him and made themselves strong against Rehoboam son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender of heart, and he did not hold firm before them.

• 2 Chronicles 15:9

  He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the resident aliens with them from Ephraim and Manasseh and from Simeon; for great numbers from Israel had gone over to him when they saw that YHWH his Elohim was with him.

• 2 Chronicles 15:10

  They gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of year fifteen of the reign of Asa.

• 2 Chronicles 18:5

  Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets, four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to war, or shall I refrain?” They said, “Go up, and Elohim will give it into the hand of the king.”

• 2 Chronicles 20:4

  Judah gathered to seek help from YHWH; also from all the cities of Judah they came to seek YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 23:2

  They went around through Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 24:5

  He gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and gather from all Israel silver to repair the house of your Elohim year by year; and you, hurry in the matter.” But the Levites did not hurry.

• 2 Chronicles 25:5

  Amaziah gathered Judah and set them by fathers’ houses, under commanders of thousands and under commanders of hundreds, for all Judah and Benjamin; and he counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found them to be three hundred thousand chosen men going out to the army, handling spear and large shield.

And 87 more times.