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Genesis 29:3
“And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H622 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), [idiom] generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, [idiom] surely, take (away, into, up), [idiom] utterly, withdraw.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- נֶאֶסְפוּ — verb Niphal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 202 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 6:21Genesis 25:8Genesis 25:17Genesis 29:7Genesis 29:8
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אָסַף here.
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.