kahal · assemble

What it means

kahal (קָהַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “assemble”.

People, call them together; gather.

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 call the people together, or come together.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• assembled ×27
• assemble ×7
• gathered ×3
• assembles ×1
• when assembling ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×9
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×2
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×3
• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Esther×5
• Job×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2

• Exodus 32:1

  When the people saw that Moses was delaying to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Get up, make for us gods who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.”

• Exodus 35:1

  And Moses assembled all the community of the sons of Israel and said to them, “These are the things that YHWH has commanded to do:

• Leviticus 8:3

  and assemble all the community at the entrance of the tent of meeting.”

• Leviticus 8:4

  Moses did as YHWH had commanded him, and the community assembled at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Numbers 1:18

  and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month, and they declared their descent by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head,

• Numbers 8:9

  And you shall bring the Levites before the tent of meeting, and assemble the whole community of the sons of Israel.

• Numbers 10:7

  But when assembling the assembly, you shall blow, but not sound an acclamation.

• Numbers 16:3

  And they assembled against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “Enough of you! For all the community, all of them, are holy, and YHWH is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of YHWH?”

• Numbers 16:19

  And Korah assembled all the community against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. Then the glory of YHWH appeared to all the community.

• Numbers 16:42

  And it happened, when the community had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they turned toward the tent of meeting, and look, the cloud covered it, and the glory of YHWH appeared.

• Numbers 20:2

  And there was no water for the community; and they assembled against Moses and against Aaron.

• Numbers 20:8

  “Take the staff, and assemble the community, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the crag before their eyes so that it will give its water. And you shall bring out water for them from the crag and give drink to the community and to their livestock.”

• Numbers 20:10

  And Moses and Aaron assembled the assembly in front of the crag, and he said to them, “Hear, please, you rebels! Shall we bring out water for you from this crag?”

• Deuteronomy 4:10

  The day that you stood before YHWH your Elohim at Horeb, when YHWH said to me, “Assemble the people for me, and I will make them hear my words, which they will learn in order to fear me all the days that they live on the ground, and they will teach their children.”

• Deuteronomy 31:12

  Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your resident alien who is within your gates, so that they may hear and so that they may learn and fear YHWH your Elohim and take care to do all the words of this instruction;

• Deuteronomy 31:28

  Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your supervisors, so that I may speak in their ears these words and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.

• Joshua 18:1

  And the whole community of the sons of Israel assembled at Shiloh, and they settled the tent of meeting there; and the land was subdued before them.

• Joshua 22:12

  And the sons of Israel heard it, and the whole community of the sons of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go up against them with the army.

• Judges 20:1

  Then all the sons of Israel went out, and the community assembled as one man, from Dan to Beersheba, and the land of Gilead, to YHWH at Mizpah.

• 2 Samuel 20:14

  He passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel and Beth-maacah, and all the Berites gathered and went after him too.

• 1 Kings 8:1

  Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers’ houses of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of YHWH from the city of David, that is Zion.

• 1 Kings 8:2

  And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, at the feast, that is the seventh month.

• 1 Kings 12:21

  Rehoboam came to Jerusalem and assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring back the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

• 1 Chronicles 13:5

  So David assembled all Israel, from the Shihor of Egypt as far as the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of Elohim from Kiriath-jearim.

• 1 Chronicles 15:3

  David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of YHWH to its place, which he had prepared for it.

• 1 Chronicles 28:1

  David assembled at Jerusalem all the chiefs of Israel, the chiefs of the tribes, and the commanders of the divisions who ministered to the king, and the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, and the chiefs over all the property and livestock of the king and of his sons, with the officials and the mighty men and every mighty man of valor.

• 2 Chronicles 5:2

  Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers’ houses of the sons of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of YHWH from the city of David, which is Zion.

• 2 Chronicles 5:3

  All the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast, that is, the seventh month.

• 2 Chronicles 11:1

  Rehoboam came to Jerusalem and assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring back the kingdom to Rehoboam.

• 2 Chronicles 20:26

  On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, for there they blessed YHWH; therefore they called the name of that place the Valley of Beracah, to this day.

• Esther 8:11

  in which the king granted the Jews who were in every city permission to assemble and to stand for their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to make perish any army of any people or province that might harass them, little ones and women, and to plunder their spoil,

• Esther 9:2

  The Jews assembled in their cities in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to stretch out their hand against those who sought their harm; and no one stood before them, for the dread of them had fallen on all the peoples.

• Esther 9:15

  And the Jews who were in Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they killed in Susa three hundred men; but on the plunder they did not stretch out their hand.

• Esther 9:16

  And the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces assembled and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and killed among those who hated them seventy-five thousand; but on the plunder they did not stretch out their hand.

• Esther 9:18

  But the Jews who were in Susa assembled on the thirteenth of it and on the fourteenth of it, and rested on the fifteenth of it, and made it a day of banqueting and gladness.

• Job 11:10

  If he passes by and shuts in and assembles, who can turn him back?

• Jeremiah 26:9

  Why have you prophesied in the name of YHWH, saying, ‘Like Shiloh this house will be, and this city will be laid waste, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of YHWH.

• Ezekiel 38:7

  Be prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your assembly that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.

• Ezekiel 38:13

  Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its young lions will say to you, “Is it to take spoil that you come? Is it to seize plunder that you have assembled your assembly, to carry away silver and gold, to take livestock and goods, to take great spoil?”’