Hebrew verb · H7197
קָשַׁשׁ
qashashkaw-shash'
to gather; to assemble
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qâshash
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7197is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7197
to forage for straw, stubble or wood; figuratively, to assemble
The King James renders it: gather (selves) (together).
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
qashash is rendered "to gather; to assemble". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to gather".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 5:7“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
Exodus 5:7וְקֹשְׁשׁ֥וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's eight uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to gather, and to assemble.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to gatherStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereExodus 5:7“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks… |
| to assembleStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- gathering4
- and gather together1
- and they may gather1
- gather yourselves together1
- to gather1
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.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- הִֽתְקוֹשְׁשׁ֖וּ1
- וָק֑וֹשּׁוּ1
- וְקֹשְׁשׁ֥וּ1
- לְקֹשֵׁ֥שׁ1
- מְקֹשֵׁ֥שׁ1
- מְקֹשֵׁ֣שׁ1
- מְקֹשֶׁ֣שֶׁת1
- מְקֹשֶׁ֜שֶׁת1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular2HVprmsa
- HC/Vpu3mp1HC/Vpu3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/Vqv2mp
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vpcc
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singular1HVprfsa
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HVprfsc
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HVtv2mp
Exodus
two uses
“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
- וְקֹשְׁשׁ֥וּvekosheshuHC/Vpu3mptagged: and they may gather
So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
- לְקֹשֵׁ֥שׁlekosheshpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to gather
Numbers
two uses
While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
- מְקֹשֵׁ֥שׁmekosheshverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: gathering
Those who found the man gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation,
- מְקֹשֵׁ֣שׁmekosheshverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: gathering
1 Kings
two uses
So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”
- מְקֹשֶׁ֣שֶׁתmekosheshetverb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: gathering
But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”
- מְקֹשֶׁ֜שֶׁתmekosheshetverb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singulartagged: gathering
Zephaniah
two uses
Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,
- הִֽתְקוֹשְׁשׁ֖וּhitkosheshuverb · reflexive (hithpael), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: gather yourselves together
- וָק֑וֹשּׁוּvakooshuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and gather together
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 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.