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1 Samuel 7:6

“And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

קָבַץqâbats · kaw-bats'
H6908 · Hebrew
Definition
to grasp, i.e. collect
Derivation
a primitive root;
KJV renderings
assemble (selves), gather (bring) (together, selves together, up), heap, resort, [idiom] surely, take up.
Grammar
  • וַ — conjunction
  • יִּקָּבְצ֣וּ — verb Niphal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
Code HC/VNw3mp
Usage
Occurs 127 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 41:35Genesis 41:48Genesis 49:2Deuteronomy 13:17Deuteronomy 30:3

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.