קָהָל qahal

Hebrew word for “assembly” · Strong’s H6951 · used 123 times in 116 verses

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Meaning

1) assembly, company, congregation, convocation;

How it is translated

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

• assembly 100
• company 22
• among the assembly 1

Where it is used

Also in 9 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

2 Chronicles 30 (7), Numbers 20 (4), Deuteronomy 23 (4), 1 Kings 8 (4), 2 Chronicles 29 (4), Ezra 10 (4), Ezekiel 38 (4), Leviticus 4 (3), Numbers 16 (3), 1 Chronicles 29 (3)

Forms

• הקהל 42
• קהל 37
• בקהל 23
• לקהל 5
• קהלך 4
• והקהל 3
• וקהל 2
• ובקהל 2
• קהלה 2
• בקהלם 1

Words used with it

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

• גָּדוֹל gadol “great” 15
• תָּוֶךְ tavekh “midst” 14
• רַב rav “many” 13
• עַד ad “till” 13
• מֹשֶׁה mosheh “Moses” 11
• עָמַד amad “to stand” 9
• קָהַל qahal “to gather” 5
• דָּבָר davar “word” 11
• שְׁלֹמֹה shelomoh “Solomon” 7
• בָּרַךְ barakh “to bless” 7
• זָקֵן zaqen “old” 6
• פָּרַשׂ paras “to spread” 5

Key verses

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

• Genesis 28:3 — And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
• Genesis 35:11 — And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
• Exodus 12:6 — And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
• Exodus 16:3 — And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we…
• Numbers 20:12 — And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this…
• 1 Chronicles 29:10 — Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
• 1 Chronicles 29:20 — And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their…
• Ezra 10:1 — Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very…
• Psalms 22:22 — I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
• Psalms 40:9 — I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
• 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…
• Lamentations 1:10 — The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command…

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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.