אָסַף
to gather
also: receive, remove, gather in fuller range ↓
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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”). Here: ‘gather’
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”). Here: ‘assemble’
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem. Here: ‘gather harvest Is 62’
- Pual
- The passive counterpart of the Piel.
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
- Hithpael
- The reflexive or reciprocal stem (the subject acts on itself).
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
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).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
76 distinct verses where H622 appears in the Niphal stem, across 24 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Genesis 10 verses
- Genesis 25:8 וַ/יֵּאָ֖סֶף conj + Niphal wimpf 3ms Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 25:17 וַ/יֵּאָ֖סֶף conj + Niphal wimpf 3ms These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 29:3 וְ/נֶאֶסְפוּ conj + Niphal pf 3cp There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.
- Genesis 29:7 הֵאָסֵ֣ף Niphal inf.cs He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the cattle together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them."
- Genesis 29:8 יֵאָֽסְפוּ֙ Niphal impf 3mp They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep."
- Genesis 34:30 וְ/נֶאֶסְפ֤וּ conj + Niphal pf 3cp Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
- Genesis 35:29 וַ/יֵּאָ֣סֶף conj + Niphal wimpf 3ms Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
- Genesis 49:1 הֵאָֽסְפוּ֙ Niphal impv 2mp Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.
- Genesis 49:29 נֶאֱסָ֣ף Niphal ptcp.pass ms He charged them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
- Genesis 49:33 וַ/יֶּאֱסֹ֥ף וַ/יֵּאָ֥סֶף conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Niphal wimpf 3ms When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.
Exodus 2 verses
- Exodus 9:19 יֵֽאָסֵף֙ Niphal impf 3ms Now therefore command that all of your cattle and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. Every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn't brought home, the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die."'"
- Exodus 32:26 וַ/יֵּאָסְפ֥וּ conj + Niphal wimpf 3mp then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.
Leviticus 1 verse
Numbers 8 verses
- Numbers 11:22 יֵאָסֵ֥ף Niphal impf 3ms Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
- Numbers 11:30 וַ/יֵּאָסֵ֥ף conj + Niphal wimpf 3ms Moses got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
- Numbers 12:14 תֵּאָסֵֽף Niphal impf 3fs Yahweh said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.
- Numbers 12:15 הֵאָסֵ֖ף Niphal inf.cs Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days: and the people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in again.
- Numbers 20:24 יֵאָסֵ֤ף Niphal impf 3ms Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
- Numbers 20:26 יֵאָסֵ֖ף Niphal impf 3ms and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered [to his people], and shall die there.
- Numbers 27:13 וְ/נֶאֱסַפְתָּ֥ נֶאֱסַ֖ף conj + Niphal wpf 2ms Niphal pf 3ms When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;
- Numbers 31:2 תֵּאָסֵ֥ף Niphal impf 2ms Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward you shall be gathered to your people.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Joshua 1 verse
Judges 7 verses
- Judges 2:10 נֶאֶסְפ֖וּ Niphal pf 3cp Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn't know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel.
- Judges 6:33 נֶאֶסְפ֣וּ Niphal pf 3cp Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.
- Judges 9:6 וַ/יֵּאָ֨סְפ֜וּ conj + Niphal wimpf 3mp All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.
- Judges 10:17 וַ/יֵּאָֽסְפוּ֙ conj + Niphal wimpf 3mp Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpah.
- Judges 16:23 נֶֽאֱסְפוּ֙ Niphal pf 3cp The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
- Judges 20:11 וַ/יֵּֽאָסֵ֞ף conj + Niphal wimpf 3ms So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
- Judges 20:14 וַ/יֵּאָסְפ֧וּ conj + Niphal wimpf 3mp The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
1 Samuel 4 verses
- 1 Samuel 13:5 נֶאֶסְפ֣וּ Niphal pf 3cp The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
- 1 Samuel 13:11 נֶאֱסָפִ֥ים Niphal ptcp.act mp Samuel said, What have you done? Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;
- 1 Samuel 17:1 וַ/יַּאַסְפ֨וּ וַ/יֵּאָ֣סְפ֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Niphal wimpf 3mp Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
- 1 Samuel 17:2 נֶאֶסְפ֔וּ Niphal pf 3cp Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
2 Samuel 6 verses
- 2 Samuel 10:15 וַ/יֵּאָסְפ֖וּ conj + Niphal wimpf 3mp When the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they gathered themselves together.
- 2 Samuel 14:14 יֵאָסֵ֑פוּ Niphal impf 3mp For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
- 2 Samuel 17:11 הֵ֠אָסֹף יֵאָסֵ֨ף Niphal inf.abs Niphal impf 3ms But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.
- 2 Samuel 17:13 יֵֽאָסֵ֔ף Niphal impf 3ms Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there not be one small stone found there.
- 2 Samuel 23:9 נֶאֶסְפוּ Niphal pf 3cp After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.
- 2 Samuel 23:11 וַ/יֵּאָסְפ֨וּ conj + Niphal wimpf 3mp After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. The Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines.
2 Kings 1 verse
1 Chronicles 2 verses
- 1 Chronicles 11:13 נֶאֱסְפוּ Niphal pf 3cp He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
- 1 Chronicles 19:7 נֶאֶסְפוּ֙ Niphal pf 3cp So they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
2 Chronicles 4 verses
- 2 Chronicles 12:5 נֶאֶסְפ֥וּ Niphal pf 3cp Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, You have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
- 2 Chronicles 30:3 נֶאֶסְפ֥וּ Niphal pf 3cp For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 30:13 וַ/יֵּֽאָסְפ֤וּ conj + Niphal wimpf 3mp There assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
- 2 Chronicles 34:28 אֹֽסִפְ/ךָ֜ וְ/נֶאֱסַפְתָּ֣ Qal ptcp.act ms cs + sfx pers 2ms conj + Niphal wpf 2ms Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on the inhabitants of it. They brought back word to the king.
Ezra 2 verses
- Ezra 3:1 וַ/יֵּאָסְפ֥וּ conj + Niphal wimpf 3mp When the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
- Ezra 9:4 יֵאָסְפ֗וּ Niphal impf 3mp Then were assembled to me everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the trespass of them of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.
Nehemiah 4 verses
- Nehemiah 8:1 וַ/יֵּאָסְפ֤וּ conj + Niphal wimpf 3mp All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.
- Nehemiah 8:13 נֶאֶסְפוּ֩ Niphal pf 3cp On the second day were gathered together the heads of fathers' [houses] of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, to Ezra the scribe, even to give attention to the words of the law.
- Nehemiah 9:1 נֶאֶסְפ֤וּ Niphal pf 3cp Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them.
- Nehemiah 12:28 וַ/יֵּאָ֣סְפ֔וּ conj + Niphal wimpf 3mp The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of the Netophathites;
Job 1 verse
Psalms 3 verses
- Psalms 35:15 וְֽ/נֶאֱ֫סָ֥פוּ נֶאֶסְפ֬וּ conj + Niphal pf 3cp Niphal pf 3cp But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.
- Psalms 47:9 נֶאֱסָ֗פוּ Niphal pf 3cp The princes of the peoples are gathered together, The people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted!
- Psalms 104:22 יֵאָסֵפ֑וּ/ן Niphal impf 3mp + sfx n The sun rises, and they steal away, And lay down in their dens.
Proverbs 1 verse
Isaiah 6 verses
- Isaiah 13:4 נֶֽאֱסָפִ֔ים Niphal ptcp.act mp The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Hosts is mustering the host for the battle.
- Isaiah 16:10 וְ/נֶאֱסַ֨ף conj + Niphal wpf 3ms Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: nobody shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease.
- Isaiah 43:9 וְ/יֵאָֽסְפוּ֙ conj + Niphal impf 3mp Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
- Isaiah 49:5 יֵאָסֵ֑ף Niphal impf 3ms Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God is become my strength);
- Isaiah 57:1 נֶֽאֱסָפִים֙ נֶאֱסַ֥ף Niphal ptcp.act mp Niphal pf 3ms The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].
- Isaiah 60:20 יֵאָסֵ֑ף Niphal impf 3ms Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.
Jeremiah 6 verses
- Jeremiah 4:5 הֵאָסְפ֥וּ Niphal impv 2mp Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow you the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.
- Jeremiah 8:2 יֵאָֽסְפוּ֙ Niphal impf 3mp and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.
- Jeremiah 8:14 הֵֽאָסְפ֗וּ Niphal impv 2mp Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 25:33 יֵאָֽסְפוּ֙ Niphal impf 3mp The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.
- Jeremiah 47:6 הֵאָֽסְפִי֙ Niphal impv 2fs You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet? put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.
- Jeremiah 48:33 וְ/נֶאֶסְפָ֨ה conj + Niphal pf 3fs Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 29:5 תֵאָסֵ֖ף Niphal impf 2ms I will cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers: you shall fall on the open field; you shall not be brought together, nor gathered; I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
- Ezekiel 39:17 הֵאָסְפ֣וּ Niphal impv 2mp You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.
Hosea 1 verse
Amos 1 verse
Micah 1 verse
Zechariah 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.
“to gather” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb אסף (ʼâçaph). Where the King James Version says “gather,” newer translations reach for “and” (unfoldingWord Literal Text); the renderings breakdown has the detail. It appears 188 verses across 31 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its common vocabulary. First canonically at Genesis 6:21, it enters the text early. Across 5 stems, its meaning turns on the binyan (Qal, Niphal). 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 H622 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 →
- 188
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 188 distinct verses.
- 31 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 31 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #236
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 236 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 188 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 188 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 102 verses · 54%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 46 verses · 24%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 40 verses · 21%
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: Gather 16×, Gathered 14×, Gathered themselves together 11×
- American Standard Version: Gathered 13×, Gather 11×, Gathered themselves together 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gathered 18×, Gather 15×, Assembled 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: And 22×, Gathered 19×, Gather 17×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H622 across 208 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 80 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 H622 across 207 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 93 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 H622 across 193 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 95 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 7 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H622 across 247 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 88 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
15 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel) and Hithpael (reflexive or reciprocal).
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 15 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.
Qal
- Pf. אָסַף Gn 30:23 +; אָסַפְתָּ ψ 85:4, etc.; Impf. יֶאֱסֹף 2 K 5:3; יַאַסְפֵנִי ψ 27:10, etc.; also וַיֹּסֶף 2 S 6:1; 2 ms. תֹּסֵף ψ 104:29; 1 s. אֹסְפָה Mi 4:6; so prob. (sf.) אֹסִֽפְךָ 1 S 15:6 (read אֹסִפְךָ) v. Köi 382 DrSm; Imv. אֱסֹף Nu 21:16 + אֶסְפָה Nu 11:16; 2 fs. אִסְפִּי Je 10:17; אִסְפוּ ψ 50:5 +; Inf. abs. אָסֹף Je 8:13 + (Hiph., from סוף according to BaNB 73); cstr. אֱסֹף 2 K 5:7 +; אָסְפְּךָ Ex 23:16; אָסְפְּכֶם Lv 23:39; Pt. act. אֹסֵף Nu 19:10; אֹסִפְךָ 2 K 22:20; 2 Ch 34:28 (pointed אֹסִֽפְךָ i.e. Hiph.; cf. Köl.c.); אֹסְפָם ψ 39:7; pass. pl. cstr. אֲסֻפֵי Ez 34:29;— e.g. Genesis 30:23
- 1. gather, collect (a) persons Gn 29:22; 42:17 (sq. אֶל־) Ex 3:16; 4:29; Nu 11:16, 24; 21:16 Jos 2:18 (sq. אֶל־ + ־ה loc.) 24:1 (sq. ־ה loc.; all these JE); 1 S 5:8, 11; 2 K 23:1 (sq. אֶל־) Jo 2:16; Is 11:12 Zp 3:8; Hb 2:6; Ez 11:17 (all ‖ קבץ) +; collect men, people, armies, etc., for fighting Nu 21:23 (E) Ju 11:20; 1 S 17:1 2 S 10:17; 12:29 +; cf. Zc 14:2 (sq. אֶל־ against); (b) once obj. beasts Je 12:9; (c) things, especially fruits of earth Ex 23:10, 16 (Cov’t code) Lv 23:39; 25:3, 20 (H) Dt 11:14; 16:13; 28:38; Is 17:5; Je 40:10, 12; Jb 39:12 ψ 39:7; cf. Ru 2:7 (‖ לקט glean); the quails Nu 11:32(×2); food in gen. (מַאֲכָל) Gn 6:21 (sq. אֶל־); eggs Is 10:14; money 2 K 22:4; 2 Ch 24:11; ashes of red heifer Nu 19:9, 10; chariots 1 K 10:26; 2 Ch 1:14, etc.; of fisherman (בְּמִכְמַרְתּוֹ, in metaph.) Hb 1:15; of collecting wind Pr 30:4 מִי א׳־רוּחַ בְּחָפְנָיו. e.g. Genesis 29:22
- 2. gather an individual into company of others: (a) obj. pers. especially gather to one’s fathers 2 K 22:20 (עַל־אֲבֹתֶיךָ) = 2 Ch 34:28 (אֶל־; both ‖ Niph. of same vb. q.v.); hence also (b) bring, obj. pers. 1 S 14:52 (on form here v. Dr) 2 S 11:27 (both sq. אֶל־), association, responsibility, protection being implied; also of stray ox or sheep Dt 22:2 (sq. אֶל־תּוֹךְ); hence also (c) take up, care for, subj. י׳ ψ 27:10 (cf. perhaps Is 40:11 קבץ); (d) draw up the feet upon the bed (אֶל־) Gn 49:33. e.g. 2 Kings 22:20
- 3. bring up the rear of Is 58:8 כְּבוֹד י׳ יַאַסְפֶ֑ךָ i.e. be thy rear-guard (‖ הָלַךְ לְפָנֶיךָ צִדְקֶ֑ךָ)—52:12 has Pi. מְאְסִּפְכֶם q.v. e.g. Isaiah 58:8
- 4. gather and take away, remove, withdraw 1 S 14:19 (obj. hand), Je 10:17 (bundle, sq. מִן), leper 2 K 5:11 (v. צרע); cf. also א׳ מִצָּרַעַת, remove (set free) a man from leprosy v 3, 6, 7; Gn 30:23; Is 4:1 (reproach), ψ 85:4 (wrath, ‖ הֵשִׁיב), Je 16:5 (peace, sq. מִן), Jo 2:10; 4:15 (light), ψ 26:9 (נֶפֶשׁ) so Ju 18:25; ψ 104:29 (רוּחַ) v. also Jb 34:14 (sq. אֶל־); hence destroy 1 S 15:6 (obj. pers.); pass. אֲסֻפֵי רָעָב destroyed with hunger Ez 34:29; also Inf. abs. Je 8:13; Zp 1:2 (joined with הֵסִיף from סוף, v. Köi. 445; considered Hiph. Inf. abs. by BaNB 73 v. supr.) e.g. 1 Samuel 14:19
Niphal
- Pf. נֶאֱסַף Nu 27:13 + נֶאֶסְפָה Je 48:33 etc.; Impf. יֵאָסֵף Ex 9:19 +; וַיֵּאָ֫סֶף Gn 25:8 +; יֵאָסֵכּ֑וּן ψ 104:22 etc.; Imv. הֵאָסֵף Dt 32:50; הֵאָֽסְפִי Je 47:6; הֵאָֽסְפוּ Gn 49:1 +; Inf. abs. הֵאָסֹף 2 S 17:11 (on form cf. BaNB 74); cstr. הֵאָסֵף Gn 29:7; Nu 12:15; Pt. נֶאֱסָף Gn 49:29; נֶאֱסָפִים 1 S 13:11; Is 13:4; נֶאֱסָפִים Is 57:1;— e.g. Numbers 27:13
- 1. assemble, be gathered, reflex. (a) subj. men Gn 49:1 (‖ קבץ v 2), Is 43:9 (‖ קבץ), 2 Ch 30:3 (sq. לְ) v 13 (sq. acc. loc.), Ezr 3:1; 9:4; Ne 8:1, 13 (all sq. אֶל־) 9:1; 12:28; earlier mostly of assembling for war Gn 34:30 (sq. עַל־), Jos 10:5; Ju 6:33; 9:6; 10:17 (‖ נצעק), 20:11 (sq. אֶל־) v 14 (sq. ־ה loc.), 1 S 13:11 (sq. acc. loc.) +; (b) subj. flocks, etc. Gn 29:3 (pass.; sq. שָׁמָּה) v 7, 8 (all J); fish Nu 11:22 (cf. Hb 1:16 Qal); (c) inanim. subj. herbs Pr 27:25; water 2 S 14:14 (in sim.); bones for burial Je 8:2 cf. 25:33 (bodies of slain) v. also Ez 29:5 (‖ קבץ which Co reads קבר), appar. = compose, arrange for burial. so יֵאָסֵף Jb 27:19; but read prob. יאסִף = יוֹסִף (Ex 5:7), 𝔊 𝔖 Ew De Di Du. e.g. Genesis 49:1
- 2. pass. of Qal 2; (a) be gathered to one’s fathers נֶא׳ אֶל־אֲבוֹהָיו Ju 2:10; elsewhere to one’s people אֶל־עַמָּיו (all P) Gn 25:8, 17; 35:29 (‖ וַיִּגְוַע וַיָּמָת) 49:29, 33 (‖ גוע), Nu 20:24, 26 (‖ מות) 27:13; 31:2; Dt 32:50(×2) (both ‖ מות); also אֶל־קִבְרֹתֶיךָ 2 K 22:20 = 2 Ch 34:28 (both ‖ Qal q.v.); abs. Nu 27:13; (b) be brought in (into association with others, etc.) Nu 12:14, 15 (E) of Miriam, after leprosy; also refl. betake oneself, of Moses 11:30 (E), cf. 2 S 17:13 (both sq. אֶל־); even with inanim. subj. Je 47:6 הֵאָֽסְפִי אֶל־תַּעְרֵךְ (addressed to sword); of man & beast brought home (sq. ־ה loc.) for protection Ex 9:19. e.g. Judges 2:10
- 3. Pass. of Qal 4; be taken away, removed, perish, of men Is 57:1(×2) (‖ אבד); fish Ho 4:3; gladness Is 16:10 Je 48:33 (sq. מִן); also reflex., withdraw itself, of moon Is 60:20 (‖ בוא שׁמשׁ). e.g. Isaiah 57:1
Piel
- Pt. מְאַסֵּף Nu 10:25 +; מְאָֽסְפָיו Is 62:9 (so BD v. Köi201); מְאַסִּפְכֶם Is 52:12;— e.g. Numbers 10:25
- 1. gather harvest Is 62:9 (‖ קבץ); bodies for burial Je 9:21. e.g. Isaiah 62:9
- 2. take in, receive into (sq. בַּיְתָה) Ju 19:15, 18. e.g. Judges 19:15
- 3. as subst. rearguard, rearward Nu 10:25 (P) Jos 6:9, 13 (both E); fig. of God Is 52:12. e.g. Numbers 10:25
Pual
- Pf. וְאֻסַּף (cons.) Is 33:4; Zc 14:14 etc.; Pt. מְאֻסָּף, Ez 38:12—be gathered, of men Is 24:22; Ho 10:10 (sq. עַל against), Ez 38:12; booty Is 33:4; wealth Zc 14:14. e.g. Isaiah 33:4
Hithpael
- Inf. הִתְאַסֵּף Dt 33:5 gather themselves. e.g. Deuteronomy 33:5
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
vb. gather, remove (Assyrian esêpu, DlPr 45)—
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Origin: a primitive root
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.
אָסַף
- [to scrape together], to gather, harvest. Snh. III, 3 אוֹסְפֵי שביעית those who harvest the fruits of the Sabbath year (for storage); ib. 26ᵃ אוֹסְפִין (opp. to סוחרין traders in fruits of the Sabbath year).
- 1. to be gathered; to be taken away (by death). Num. R. s. 14 (p. 257ᵈ ed. Amst.) והם נֶאֱסָפִים לשָׁמְעוֹ and they (the people) gather themselves to hear him. Ib. (p. 258ᵃ) בזמן שבעליהם נאספים מהם after their teachers have been taken away from them (when they are dead); Pesik. R. s. 3; Koh. to XII, 11; Tanḥ. B’haãl., 15; a. e. e.g. Ecclesiastes 12:11
- 2. to be picked up. Kidd. IV, 1; v. אֲסוּפִי.
- , mostly הוֹסִיף, v. יָסַף
אֲסַף
- Y. Keth. V, 30ᵇ top לא מסתברא דלא כאספון וכ׳ (read כאספין) it would be unreasonable not to consider students like harvesters, for they work (even) harder.
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Forms in the corpus
The 163 distinct written forms H622 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.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 103 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H622, 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.
Derived from this word
- אסיף ʼâçîyph H614 harvest
- אסף ʼâçuph H624 storehouse
- אסף ʼôçeph H625 harvest
- אספה ʼăçêphâh H626 gathering
- אפיק ʼâphîyq H650 channel
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 179 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 188 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
- Genesis 6:21
- Exodus 3:16
- Leviticus 23:39
- Numbers 10:25
- Deuteronomy 11:14
- Joshua 2:18
- Judges 2:10
- Ruth 2:7
- 1 Samuel 5:8
- 2 Samuel 6:1
- 1 Kings 10:26
- 2 Kings 5:3
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.
