כְּנַשׁ
to gather
‘to gather’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Poal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 2 times (67%)
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3673 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 3 verses
- Daniel 3:2 לְ/מִכְנַ֣שׁ prep + Qal inf.cs Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
- Daniel 3:3 מִֽתְכַּנְּשִׁ֡ין Poal ptcp.act mp Then the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
- Daniel 3:27 וּ֠/מִֽתְכַּנְּשִׁין conj + Poal ptcp.act mp The satraps, the deputies, and the governors, and the king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies, nor was the hair of their head singed, neither were their pants changed, nor had the smell of fire passed on them.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew verb כנש centers on the idea of “to gather.” A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Daniel dominates its distribution — 3 of 3 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Daniel 3:2. Its meaning spans more than one sense — see its full sense range. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3673 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 3 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Being gathered together 1×, Gather together 1×, Were gathered together 1×
- American Standard Version: Being gathered together 1×, Gather together 1×, Were gathered together 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Assembled 1×, Had gathered around 1×, Word to assemble 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Gathered together 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3673 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3673 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3673 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3673 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 1 sense the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Hithpaal
- . assembled
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
Derived from כנס (kânaç) (H3664) — to gather.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
כָּנַשׁ
- = כָּנַס, Hithpa. הִתְכַּנֵּשׁ. Cant. R. to I, 3 מִתְכַּנְּשִׁין, v. כָּנַס.
כְּנַשׁ
- (v. preced.)
- 1. to gather, collect; to gather in. Targ. Ex. XXXV, 1 (ed. Amst. כְּנַשׁ). Targ. Koh. II, 8. Targ. Is. XXIV, 22; a. fr.—Y. Maas. Sh. IV, end, 55ᶜ לית את כ׳ thou shalt not harvest; a. fr.
- 2. (cmp. גבב) to rake together, to sweep. B. Mets. 85ᵃ קכַנְשָׁא ביתא Ms. M. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) was sweeping the house. Ḥull. 60ᵃ אתא … כַּנְשֵׁיה לימא a blast of wind came and swept it (the store of provision) into the sea.
- same. Targ. Mic. II, 12; a. e.—Lev. R. s. 25 היא מְכַנְּשָׁא להון she calls the chickens together. Y. Ber. IX, end 14ᵈ דמְכַנְּשִׁין, v. בְּדַר; a. e.
- same. Targ. Ez. XI, 17 (ed. Lag. אִיכְנֵישׁ Pe.); a. e.
- to be gathered, to be called in; to retire. Targ. Jud. XII, 1 (ed. Wil. … שׂ) Targ. Gen. XXV, 8. Targ. Jer. XLVII, 6; a. fr.—Koh. R. to IX, 10 אִתְכַּנְּשׁוּן כל קרייתא וכ׳ all the towns (people) met to mourn for him. Tanḥ. Ki Thetsé 4 טב ליה לצדיקא דאי׳ בשלם (not לצדיקיא) it is better for the righteous man to be gathered in (die) in peace; Pesik. Zakh., p. 23ᵃ טב ליה מִתְכְּנַשׁ בשלם; Yalk. Ps. 868 טב ליה לההיא סבא דמִתְכְּנִישׁ וכ׳.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H3673 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ֠/מִֽתְכַּנְּשִׁין | Verb, Poal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 3:27 | 1 |
| לְ/מִכְנַ֣שׁ | Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct | Daniel 3:2 | 1 |
| מִֽתְכַּנְּשִׁ֡ין | Verb, Poal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 3:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3673, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
