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Zechariah 14:2

“For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

אָסַףʼâçaph · aw-saf'
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
  • אָסַפְתִּ֨י — verb Qal, sequential perfect, 1st person, common, singular
Code HC/Vqq1cs
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.

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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.