קָהָלqâhâl

assembly, convocation, congregation

Pronunciation: kaw-hawl' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6951

Meanings

1. assembly, specially convoked

a. for evil counsel (Genesis 49:6; Psalms 26:5; Proverbs 5:14)

b. for war or invasion (Numbers 22:4; Judges 20:2; Judges 21:5)

c. company, of returning exiles (Jeremiah 31:8; Ezra 2:64; Nehemiah 7:66)

d. for religious purposes (Deuteronomy 5:19; Deuteronomy 9:10; Deuteronomy 10:4)

2. congregation, as organized body

a. of Israel (Micah 2:5; Numbers 16:3; Numbers 20:4)

b. restored community in Jerusalem (Ezra 10:12; Ezra 10:14; Nehemiah 8:2)

d. company (Genesis 35:11; Genesis 28:3; Genesis 48:4)

Same root

קָהַלqâhal · H6950to convoke

Where it appears

Appears 123 times in the Bible.

Genesis 28:3 May God Almighty bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations!
Genesis 35:11 Then God said, “I am El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.’ Be fruitful and multiply. You will become a great nation, even many nations. Kings will be among your descendants!
Genesis 48:4 He said to me, ‘I will make you fruitful, and I will multiply your descendants. I will make you a multitude of nations. And I will give this land of Canaan to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’
Genesis 49:6 May I never join in their meetings; may I never be a party to their plans. For in their anger they murdered men, and they crippled oxen just for sport.
Exodus 12:6 “Take special care of this chosen animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of this first month. Then the whole assembly of the community of Israel must slaughter their lamb or young goat at twilight.
Exodus 16:3 “If only the Lord had killed us back in Egypt,” they moaned. “There we sat around pots filled with meat and ate all the bread we wanted. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to starve us all to death.”

See every passage

Genesis 28:3, 35:11, 48:4, 49:6
Exodus 12:6, 16:3
Leviticus 4:13, 4:14, 4:21, 16:17, 16:33
Numbers 10:7, 14:5, 15:15, 16:3, 16:33, 16:47, 19:20, 20:4, 20:6, 20:10, 20:12, 22:4
Deuteronomy 5:22, 9:10, 10:4, 18:16, 23:1, 23:2, 23:3, 23:8, 31:30
Joshua 8:35
Judges 20:2, 21:5, 21:8
1 Samuel 17:47
1 Kings 8:14, 8:22, 8:55, 8:65, 12:3
1 Chronicles 13:2, 13:4, 28:8, 29:1, 29:10, 29:20
2 Chronicles 1:3, 1:5, 6:3, 6:12, 6:13, 7:8, 20:5, 20:14, 23:3, 24:6, 28:14, 29:23, 29:28, 29:31, 29:32, 30:2, 30:4, 30:13, 30:17, 30:23, 30:24, 30:25, 31:18
Ezra 2:64, 10:1, 10:8, 10:12, 10:14
Nehemiah 5:13, 7:66, 8:2, 8:17, 13:1
Job 30:28
Psalms 22:22, 22:25, 26:5, 35:18, 40:9, 40:10, 89:5, 107:32, 149:1
Proverbs 5:14, 21:16, 26:26
Jeremiah 26:17, 31:8, 44:15, 50:9
Lamentations 1:10
Ezekiel 16:40, 17:17, 23:24, 23:46, 23:47, 26:7, 27:27, 27:34, 32:3, 32:22, 32:23, 38:4, 38:7, 38:13, 38:15
Joel 2:16
Micah 2:5

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).