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Judges 9:6
“And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
אָסַףʼâçaph · aw-saf'
H622 · Hebrew
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
- וַ — conjunction
- יֵּאָ֨סְפ֜וּ — verb Niphal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 202 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 6:21Genesis 25:8Genesis 25:17Genesis 29:3Genesis 29:7
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.