לָקַטlâqaṭ
pick or gather up, glean
Pronunciation: law-kat' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3950
Meanings
Qal
1. pick up, gather (Genesis 31:46; Song of Solomon 6:2; Exodus 16:4)
2. glean (Ruth 2:8)
Pi`el
1. gather, gather up (Leviticus 19:10; 1 Samuel 20:38; Jeremiah 7:18)
2. collect (Genesis 47:14)
3. glean (Ruth 2:3; Ruth 2:7; Ruth 2:17)
Pu`al: be picked up (Isaiah 27:12)
Hithpa`el: there collected themselves (Judges 11:3)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 37 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 31:46 Then he told his family members, “Gather some stones.” So they gathered stones and piled them in a heap. Then Jacob and Laban sat down beside the pile of stones to eat a covenant meal.
- Genesis 47:14 By selling grain to the people, Joseph eventually collected all the money in Egypt and Canaan, and he put the money in Pharaoh’s treasury.
- Exodus 16:4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Look, I’m going to rain down food from heaven for you. Each day the people can go out and pick up as much food as they need for that day. I will test them in this to see whether or not they will follow my instructions.
- Exodus 16:5 On the sixth day they will gather food, and when they prepare it, there will be twice as much as usual.”
- Exodus 16:16 These are the Lord’s instructions: Each household should gather as much as it needs. Pick up two quarts for each person in your tent.”
- Exodus 16:17 So the people of Israel did as they were told. Some gathered a lot, some only a little.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).