אָסַףʼâçaph

gather, remove

Pronunciation: aw-saf' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H622

Meanings

Qal: construct, active (Genesis 30:23; Psalms 85:4; 2 Kings 5:3)

1. gather, collect (Genesis 29:22; Genesis 42:17; Exodus 3:16)

2. gather (2 Kings 22:20; 2 Chronicles 34:28; 1 Samuel 14:52)

3. bring up the rear of (Isaiah 58:8; Isaiah 52:12)

4. gather and take away, remove, withdraw (1 Samuel 14:19; Jeremiah 10:17; 2 Kings 5:11)

Niph`al: construct (Numbers 27:13; Jeremiah 48:33; Exodus 9:19)

1. assemble, be gathered, reflexive

c. compose, arrange (Proverbs 27:25; 2 Samuel 14:14; Jeremiah 8:2)

2. passive of Qal 2

a. be gathered to one's fathers (Judges 2:10; Genesis 25:8; Genesis 25:17)

b. be brought in (Numbers 12:14; Numbers 12:15; Numbers 11:30)

3. be taken away, removed, perish, passive of Qal 4 (Isaiah 57:1; Hosea 4:3; Isaiah 16:10)

Pi`el

1. gather (Isaiah 62:9; Jeremiah 9:21)

2. take in, receive into (Judges 19:15; Judges 19:18)

3. rearguard, rearward, as substantive (Numbers 10:25; Joshua 6:9; Joshua 6:13)

Pu`al: be gathered (Isaiah 33:4; Zechariah 14:14; Ezekiel 38:12)

Hithpa`el: gather themselves (Deuteronomy 33:5)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 200 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 6:21 And be sure to take on board enough food for your family and for all the animals.”
  • Genesis 25:8 and he died at a ripe old age, having lived a long and satisfying life. He breathed his last and joined his ancestors in death.
  • Genesis 25:17 Ishmael lived for 137 years. Then he breathed his last and joined his ancestors in death.
  • Genesis 29:3 It was the custom there to wait for all the flocks to arrive before removing the stone and watering the animals. Afterward the stone would be placed back over the mouth of the well.
  • Genesis 29:7 Jacob said, “Look, it’s still broad daylight—too early to round up the animals. Why don’t you water the sheep and goats so they can get back out to pasture?”
  • Genesis 29:8 “We can’t water the animals until all the flocks have arrived,” they replied. “Then the shepherds move the stone from the mouth of the well, and we water all the sheep and goats.”
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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).