עֲצָרָה
assembly
‘assembly’ 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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 9 times (82%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 1 time (9%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 1 time (9%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 11 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6116 appears — 11 distinct verses across 10 books. 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.
Leviticus 1 verse
Numbers 1 verse
Deuteronomy 1 verse
2 Kings 1 verse
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Nehemiah 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 1 verse
Joel 2 verses
Amos 1 verse
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.
“assembly” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun עצרה (ʻătsârâh). First canonically at Leviticus 23:36, it enters the text early. With 11 verses in 10 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Its meaning spans more than one sense — see its full sense range. It clusters with עצר, מעצור and מעצר under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6116 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
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 11 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 55%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 27%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 18%
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: Solemn assembly 4×
- American Standard Version: Solemn assembly 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Solemn assembly 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Assembly 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6116 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6116 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6116 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6116 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear 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 2 senses and sub-senses 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.
- 1. sacred assembly, rejected by י׳, Is 1:13 and (at Bethel, etc.) Am 5:21; for Baal 2 K 10:20; Dt 16:8 (last day of Maṣṣoth), Lv 23:36 (P), Nu 29:35 (P), Ne 8:18 (all of day after feast of booths), cf. 2 Ch 7:9 [NH of feast of weeks, 𝔗 עֲצַרְתָּא JosAnt. iii. 10, 6 Ἀσάρτα]; occasional, Jo 1:14; 2:15. e.g. Isaiah 1:13
- 2. assemblage, company (in gen.), ע׳ בֹּגְדִים Je 9:1 an assemblage of deceivers (Gr עֲדַת; Che חֶבְרַת). e.g. Jeremiah 9:1
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
n.f. assembly (?as confined, held in);—abs. עֲצָרָה Is 1:13 + 2 times; עֲצֶ֫רֶת Dt 16:8 + 3 times, עֲצָ֑רֶת 2 Ch 7:9; cstr. עֲצֶ֫רֶת Je 9:1; pl. sf. עַצְרֹתֵיכֶם Am 5:21;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עצר (ʻâtsâr) (H6113) — to restrain.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H6116 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֲצֶ֖רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Nehemiah 8:18 | 3 |
| בְּ/עַצְּרֹֽתֵי/כֶֽם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Amos 5:21 | 1 |
| וַ/עֲצָרָֽה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 1:13 | 1 |
| עֲצֶ֣רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 23:36 | 1 |
| עֲצֶ֨רֶת֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 16:8 | 1 |
| עֲצָ֑רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 7:9 | 1 |
| עֲצָרָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Joel 1:14 | 1 |
| עֲצָרָ֛ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Kings 10:20 | 1 |
| עֲצָרָֽה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Joel 2:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6116, 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
- מעצור maʻtsôwr H4622 restraint
- מעצר maʻtsâr H4623 control
- עצר ʻetser H6114 restraint
- עצר ʻôtser H6115 restraint
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Leviticus 23:36
- Numbers 29:35
- Deuteronomy 16:8
- 2 Kings 10:20
- 2 Chronicles 7:9
- Isaiah 1:13
- Jeremiah 9:2
- Joel 1:14
- Amos 5:21
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.
