kashash · gather

What it means

kashash (קָשַׁשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gather”.

From the ground (straw, wood).

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 pick up straw or sticks; assemble.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• gathering ×4
• gather ×3
• themselves ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Numbers×2
• 1 Kings×2
• Zephaniah×2

• Exodus 5:7

  “You shall no longer give straw to the people to make bricks as before; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

• Exodus 5:12

  So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

• Numbers 15:32

  While the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the day of the Sabbath.

• Numbers 15:33

  And those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and to Aaron and to all the community.

• 1 Kings 17:10

  So he got up and went to Zarephath, and came to the entrance of the city; and there a widow was gathering sticks. He called to her and said, “Bring, please, me a little water in a vessel, so that I may drink.”

• 1 Kings 17:12

  She said, “As YHWH your Elohim lives, I have no cake, only a handful of flour in the jar and a little oil in the jug; and look, I am gathering a couple of sticks, and I will go in and prepare it for myself and for my son, and we will eat it and die.”

• Zephaniah 2:1

  Gather like stubble and gather, nation that does not feel longing,

And 1 more times.