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קָהָל

kahal · assembly

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6951 · appears 123 times in the Bible

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What it means

kahal (קָהָל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “assembly”.

A large group of people gathered; later, the people of Israel gathered before God.

How to say it

ka·hal

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. The people gathered before YHWH.
  2. A great crowd gathered, especially for war.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Assembly: a group of people called together and gathered; above all, Israel gathered before YHWH. BDB: an assemblage, usually concretely. It comes from קָהַל, “to assemble”.

How we translate it

“Assembly” 123 times, with no other rendering. This edition's glossary sets the pair קָהָל / עֵדָה = “assembly / community”; the other word, עֵדָה (H5712), is always “community”.

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Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 28:3

    May El Shaddai bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you become an assembly of peoples.

  • Genesis 35:11

    And Elohim said to him, “I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and an assembly of nations will come from you, and kings will come out from your loins.

  • Genesis 48:4

    He said to me, ‘Look, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make you an assembly of peoples, and I will give this land to your offspring after you as an eternal possession.’

  • Genesis 49:6

    Into their council let my soul not enter; to their assembly let my honor not be joined; for in their anger they killed men, and at their whim they hamstrung oxen.

  • Exodus 12:6

    You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the community of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.

  • Exodus 16:3

    The sons of Israel said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of YHWH in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full! But you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

  • Leviticus 4:13

    And if the whole community of Israel errs and the matter is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of all the commandments of YHWH concerning things that should not be done, and they become guilty,

  • Leviticus 4:14

    when the sin that they have sinned in it becomes known, the assembly shall present a young bull as a sin offering and bring it before the tent of meeting.

  • Leviticus 4:21

    He shall bring the bull to outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering of the assembly.

  • Leviticus 16:17

    And no one shall be in the tent of meeting when he goes in to make expiation in the Holy Place until he comes out. And he shall make expiation for himself and for his house and for all the assembly of Israel.

  • Leviticus 16:33

    He shall make expiation for the holy sanctuary, and for the tent of meeting and the altar he shall make expiation, and for the priests and for all the people of the assembly he shall make expiation.

  • Numbers 10:7

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

  • Numbers 14:5

    Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the community of the sons of Israel.

  • Numbers 15:15

    As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the resident alien who resides among you, a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the resident alien be before YHWH.

  • 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 16:33

    So they and all that was theirs went down alive to Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

  • Numbers 16:47

    So Aaron took it as Moses had said and ran into the midst of the assembly, and look, the plague had begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made expiation for the people.

  • Numbers 19:20

    But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, for he has defiled the sanctuary of YHWH; the water of impurity has not been splashed on him; he is unclean.

  • Numbers 20:4

    And why have you brought the assembly of YHWH into this wilderness, to die there, we and our livestock?

  • Numbers 20:6

    And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tent of meeting and fell on their faces; and the glory of YHWH appeared to them.

  • 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?”

  • Numbers 20:12

    And YHWH said to Moses and to Aaron, “Because you did not believe in me, to treat me as holy in the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”

  • Numbers 22:4

    And Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this assembly will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the green growth of the field.” And Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.

  • Deuteronomy 5:22

    These words YHWH spoke to all your assembly on the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick cloud, with a loud voice, and he did not add more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

  • Deuteronomy 9:10

    YHWH gave me the two tablets of stone, written with the finger of Elohim; and on them was written according to all the words that YHWH had spoken with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.

  • Deuteronomy 10:4

    And he wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten words that YHWH had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and YHWH gave them to me.

  • Deuteronomy 18:16

    according to all that you asked of YHWH your Elohim at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of YHWH my Elohim, and this great fire let me not see anymore, so that I do not die.”

  • Deuteronomy 23:1

    No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of YHWH.

  • Deuteronomy 23:2

    A mamzer shall not enter the assembly of YHWH; even to the tenth generation none of his shall enter the assembly of YHWH.

  • Deuteronomy 23:3

    An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter the assembly of YHWH; even to the tenth generation none of theirs shall enter the assembly of YHWH, forever,

  • Deuteronomy 23:8

    Sons who are born to them in the third generation may enter, for their part, the assembly of YHWH.

  • Deuteronomy 31:30

    And Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song to the end:

  • Joshua 8:35

    There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women and the little ones and the resident alien who walked among them.

  • Judges 20:2

    And the leading men of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, took their stand in the assembly of the people of Elohim, four hundred thousand foot soldiers who drew the sword.

  • Judges 21:5

    And the sons of Israel said, “Who is there that did not come up in the assembly from all the tribes of Israel to YHWH?” For the great oath had been concerning him who did not come up to YHWH at Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”

  • Judges 21:8

    And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to YHWH at Mizpah?” And look, no man had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.

  • 1 Samuel 17:47

    And all this assembly will know that YHWH does not save with sword and with spear; for the war is YHWH’s, and he will give you into our hand.”

  • 1 Kings 8:14

    And the king turned his face and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing.

  • 1 Kings 8:22

    And Solomon stood before the altar of YHWH in front of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward the heavens.

  • 1 Kings 8:55

    And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

And 83 more times.