קָבַץ qavats

Hebrew word for “to gather” · Strong’s H6908 · used 127 times in 121 verses

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Meaning

1) to gather, assemble;

How it is translated

Glosses given for qavats in context, with how often each is used:

• will gather 30
• gathered 18
• gathered together 11
• assembled 9
• gather 7
• will assemble 4
• assemble 3
• have gathered together 3
• will be gathered 3
• gather together 3
• them gather 2
• had gathered together 2

Where it is used

Also in 13 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Samuel 7 (3), Ezra 10 (3), Esther 2 (3), Zephaniah 3 (3), Genesis 41 (2), Deuteronomy 30 (2), 1 Samuel 28 (2), 2 Samuel 2 (2), 1 Kings 18 (2), 2 Chronicles 15 (2)

Forms

• ויקבצו 15
• ויקבץ 14
• וקבצתי 9
• נקבצו 6
• אקבץ 6
• מקבץ 5
• הקבצו 4
• ויתקבצו 4
• קבצו 4
• קבץ 4

Words used with it

Words that share verses with qavats more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• גּוֹי goy “nation” 19
• נָדַח nadach “to banish” 11
• אָסַף asaph “to gather” 11
• שָׁם sham “there” 15
• פּוּץ puts “to scatter” 7
• יָחְדָּו yachdav “together” 8
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 12
• הֶם hem “them” 12
• מִן־ min “from” 12
• אֲדֹנָי adonai “Lord” 9
• סָבִיב saviv “around” 8
• יְהֹוִה yehovih “YHWH/God” 8

Key verses

The verses using qavats that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Isaiah 40:11 — He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
• Isaiah 45:20 — Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and…
• Isaiah 66:18 — For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
• Jeremiah 31:8 — Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and…
• Jeremiah 31:10 — Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd…
• Jeremiah 32:37 — Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto…
• Ezekiel 36:24 — For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
• Ezekiel 37:21 — And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on…
• Ezekiel 38:8 — After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many…
• Habakkuk 2:5 — Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be…
• Zephaniah 3:8 — Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the…
• Zephaniah 3:19 — Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.