Strong H622אָסַף

to gather

Transliteration
'âsaph
Pronunciation
aw-saf'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root; to gather for any purpose; hence to {receive} take {away} that {is} remove ({destroy} leave {behind} put {up} {restore} etc.): - {assemble} {bring} {consume} {destroy} {fetch} gather ({in} {together} up {again}) X {generally} get ({him}) {lose} put all {together} {receive} recover [another from {leprosy]} (be) {rereward} X {surely} take ({away} {into} {up}) X {utterly} withdraw.

Detailed definition

1) to gather, receive, remove, gather in
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to gather, collect
1a2) to gather (an individual into company of others)
1a3) to bring up the rear
1a4) to gather and take away, remove, withdraw
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to assemble, be gathered
1b2) (pass of Qal 1a2)
1b2a) to be gathered to one's fathers
1b2b) to be brought in or into (association with others)
1b3) (pass of Qal 1a4)
1b3a) to be taken away, removed, perish
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to gather (harvest)
1c2) to take in, receive into
1c3) rearguard, rearward (subst)
1d) (Pual) to be gathered
1e) (Hithpael) to gather oneself or themselves

In the Bible

Strong H622 appears in 187 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • gather124
  • assemble16
  • take12
  • together7
  • bring5
  • rereward5
  • gathereth4
  • recover4
  • withdraw4
  • will3
  • put2
  • be1

First verses

  1. Genesis 6:21
    And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
  2. Genesis 25:8
    Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
  3. Genesis 25:17
    And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.
  4. Genesis 29:3
    And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.
  5. Genesis 29:7
    And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.
  6. Genesis 29:8
    And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.
  7. Genesis 29:22
    And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
  8. Genesis 30:23
    And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
  9. Genesis 34:30
    And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
  10. Genesis 35:29
    And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
  11. Genesis 42:17
    And he put them all together into ward three days.
  12. Genesis 49:1
    And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
  13. Genesis 49:29
    And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
  14. Genesis 49:33
    And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
  15. Exodus 3:16
    Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
  16. Exodus 4:29
    And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
  17. Exodus 9:19
    Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
  18. Exodus 23:10
    And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
  19. Exodus 23:16
    And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
  20. Exodus 32:26
    Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord’s side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
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