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Hebrew verb · H3950

לָקַט

laqatlaw-kat'

to gather

37 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: lâqaṭ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3950is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 35
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3950

properly, to pick up, i.e. (generally) to gather; specifically, to glean

The King James renders it: gather (up), glean.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

laqat is rendered "to gather". It stands 37 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.

  • Twelve of the uses stand in Ruth, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:46and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.
  • The Greek text spells it thirty-five different ways.

The first use

and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.

Genesis 31:46לִקְט֣וּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twelve of the word's thirty-seven uses are in Ruth.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and they gathered3
  • to glean3
  • you will gather3
  • and she gleaned2
  • gather2
  • she had gleaned2
  • to gather2
  • and he gathered1
  • and he gathered up1
  • and he picked up1
  • and she will glean1
  • and they joined themselves1

and 15 more, 37 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

לָקַחlaqachto take: takeUses966
לָקַקlaqaqto lickUses7
לָקַשׁlaqashto gleanUses1

The words it stands beside

All 37, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

35 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • לִקְט֣וּ2
  • תְלַקֵּ֑ט2
  • אֲלַקֳטָה־1
  • וַאֲלַקֳטָּ֣ה1
  • וַיְלַקֵּ֣ט1
  • וַיְלַקֵּ֞ט1
  • וַיְלַקֵּ֥ט1
  • וַֽיִּלְקְט֔וּ1
  • וַיִּלְקְט֤וּ1
  • וַיִּֽתְלַקְּט֤וּ1
  • וְלִלְקֹ֖ט1
  • וְלִקְּטָ֖ה1

and 23 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vpw3ms3Hc/Vpw3ms
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)3HR/Vpcc
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular3HVpi2ms
  • Hc/Vpw3fs2Hc/Vpw3fs
  • Hc/Vqq3cp2Hc/Vqq3cp
  • Hc/Vqw3mp2Hc/Vqw3mp
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vqcc
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVpp3fs
  • verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural2HVprmpa
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVqp3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural2HVqv2mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vqcc

Genesis

two uses
  • and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.

    Genesis 31:46

    • לִקְט֣וּliktuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: gather
  • Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s palace.

    Genesis 47:14

    • וַיְלַקֵּ֣טvaylaketHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he gathered up

Exodus

nine uses
  • Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.

    Exodus 16:4

    • וְלָֽקְטוּ֙velaketuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will gather
  • Then on the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”

    Exodus 16:5

    • יִלְקְט֖וּyilketuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will gather
  • This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”

    Exodus 16:16

    • לִקְט֣וּliktuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: gather
  • So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less.

    Exodus 16:17

    • וַֽיִּלְקְט֔וּvaiyilketuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they gathered
  • When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.

    Exodus 16:18

    • לָקָֽטוּ׃lakatuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had gathered
  • Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

    Exodus 16:21

    • וַיִּלְקְט֤וּvaiyilketuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they gathered
  • On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food—two omers per person—and all the leaders of the congregation came and reported this to Moses.

    Exodus 16:22

    • לָֽקְט֥וּlaketuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they gathered
  • For six days you may gather, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be there.”

    Exodus 16:26

    • תִּלְקְטֻ֑הוּtilketuhuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you will gather it
  • Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything.

    Exodus 16:27

    • לִלְקֹ֑טlilkotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to gather

Leviticus

three uses
  • When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

    Leviticus 19:9

    • תְלַקֵּֽט׃telaketverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will gather
  • You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:10

    • תְלַקֵּ֑טtelaketverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will gather
  • When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”

    Leviticus 23:22

    • תְלַקֵּ֑טtelaketverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will gather

Numbers

one use
  • The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.

    Numbers 11:8

    • וְלָֽקְט֜וּvelaketuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they gathered

Judges

two uses
  • Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

    Judges 1:7

    • מְלַקְּטִים֙melaketimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: gathering up
  • So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where worthless men gathered around him and traveled with him.

    Judges 11:3

    • וַיִּֽתְלַקְּט֤וּvaiyitlaketuHc/Vtw3mptagged: and they joined themselves

Ruth

twelve uses
  • And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.

    Ruth 2:2

    • וַאֲלַקֳטָּ֣הvaalakotahconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: so I may glean
  • So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.

    Ruth 2:3

    • וַתְּלַקֵּ֣טvatelaketHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she gleaned
  • She has said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the harvesters.’ So she came out and has continued from morning until now, except that she rested a short time in the shelter.”

    Ruth 2:7

    • אֲלַקֳטָה־ʾalakotah-verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: let me glean
  • Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls.

    Ruth 2:8

    • לִלְקֹט֙lilkotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to glean
  • When Ruth got up to glean, Boaz ordered his young men, “Even if she gathers among the sheaves, do not insult her.

    Ruth 2:15

    • לְלַקֵּ֑טlelaketpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to glean
    • תְּלַקֵּ֖טtelaketverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she will glean
  • Rather, pull out for her some stalks from the bundles and leave them for her to gather. Do not rebuke her.”

    Ruth 2:16

    • וְלִקְּטָ֖הveliketahHc/Vpq3fstagged: and she will glean
  • So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.

    Ruth 2:17

    • וַתְּלַקֵּ֥טvatelaketHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she gleaned
    • לִקֵּ֔טָהliketahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she had gleaned
  • She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out what she had saved from her meal and gave it to Naomi.

    Ruth 2:18

    • לִקֵּ֑טָהliketahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she had gleaned
  • Then her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.

    Ruth 2:19

    • לִקַּ֤טְתְּlikattverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: did you glean
  • So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

    Ruth 2:23

    • לְלַקֵּ֔טlelaketpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to glean

1 Samuel

one use
  • Then Jonathan cried out, “Hurry! Make haste! Do not delay!” So the boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.

    1 Samuel 20:38

    • וַיְלַקֵּ֞טvaylaketHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he picked up

2 Kings

two uses
  • One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.

    2 Kings 4:39

    • לְלַקֵּ֣טlelaketpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to gather
    • וַיְלַקֵּ֥טvaylaketHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he gathered

Psalms

one use
  • When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

    Psalms 104:28

    • יִלְקֹט֑וּןyilkotunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they gather

Song of Solomon

one use
  • My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies.

    Song of Solomon 6:2

    • וְלִלְקֹ֖טvelilkotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to gather

Isaiah

two uses
  • as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

    Isaiah 17:5

    • כִּמְלַקֵּ֥טkimlaketpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: like gathers
  • In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.

    Isaiah 27:12

    • תְּלֻקְּט֛וּteluketuverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will be gathered

Jeremiah

one use
  • The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

    Jeremiah 7:18

    • מְלַקְּטִ֣יםmelaketimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: gathering

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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