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 39Old Testament books
- 35spellings
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
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.’”
- לִקְט֣וּliktuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: gather
So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- מְלַקְּטִ֣יםmelaketimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: gathering
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.
