קָהַלqâhal
assemble as a קָהָל
Pronunciation: 'kaw-hal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6950
Meanings
Niph`al: assemble as a (Esther 9:2; Exodus 32:1; Jeremiah 26:9)
1.
a. for conflict or war (2 Samuel 20:14; Esther 8:11; Esther 9:2)
b. rebellion (Numbers 16:3; Numbers 17:7; Numbers 20:2)
2. for religious purposes (Joshua 18:1; Leviticus 8:4; Jeremiah 26:9)
Hiph`il: summon an assembly (Ezekiel 38:13; Numbers 8:9; Numbers 1:18)
1.
a. for judgment (Job 11:10)
b. for war (1 Kings 12:21; 2 Chronicles 11:1; Ezekiel 38:13)
2. for religious purposes (Numbers 10:7; Numbers 20:10; Exodus 35:1)
Same root
- מַקְהֵלmaqhêl · H4721an assembly
- קָהָלqâhâl · H6951assemblage (usually concretely)
- קְהִלָּהqᵉhillâh · H6952an assemblage
- קֹהֶלֶתqôheleth · H6953a (female) assembler (i.e. lecturer); abstractly, preaching (used as a 'nom de plume', Koheleth)
- קְהֵלָתָהQᵉhêlâthâh · H6954Kehelathah, a place in the Desert
- קָלַהּqâlahh · H7035to assemble
Where it appears
Appears 39 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 32:1 When the people saw how long it was taking Moses to come back down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron. “Come on,” they said, “make us some gods who can lead us. We don’t know what happened to this fellow Moses, who brought us here from the land of Egypt.”
- Exodus 35:1 Then Moses called together the whole community of Israel and told them, “These are the instructions the Lord has commanded you to follow.
- Leviticus 8:3 and call the entire community of Israel together at the entrance of the Tabernacle.”
- Leviticus 8:4 So Moses followed the Lord’s instructions, and the whole community assembled at the Tabernacle entrance.
- Numbers 1:18 and they assembled the whole community of Israel on that very day. All the people were registered according to their ancestry by their clans and families. The men of Israel who were twenty years old or older were listed one by one,
- Numbers 8:9 Then assemble the whole community of Israel, and present the Levites at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
See every passage
- Exodus 32:1, 35:1
- Leviticus 8:3, 8:4
- Numbers 1:18, 8:9, 10:7, 16:3, 16:19, 16:42, 20:2, 20:8, 20:10
- Deuteronomy 4:10, 31:12, 31:28
- Joshua 18:1, 22:12
- Judges 20:1
- 2 Samuel 20:14
- 1 Kings 8:1, 8:2, 12:21
- 1 Chronicles 13:5, 15:3, 28:1
- 2 Chronicles 5:2, 5:3, 11:1, 20:26
- Esther 8:11, 9:2, 9:15, 9:16, 9:18
- Job 11:10
- Jeremiah 26:9
- Ezekiel 38:7, 38:13
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).