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Ezra 10:9

“Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.” (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.