אָסַף ʼâçaph — to gather for any purpose
Translated in the KJV as assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), × generally, get, lose, put all together.
a primitive root; to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.).
ʼâçaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 34Sequential perfect (weqatal) 15Perfect (qatal) 13Imperative 13Imperfect (yiqtol) 12Infinitive construct 8Participle (active) 4Infinitive absolute 3Jussive 1Participle (passive) 1Cohortative 1
And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 22Imperfect (yiqtol) 20Wayyiqtol 19Imperative 7Sequential perfect (weqatal) 6Participle (active) 3Infinitive construct 2Participle (passive) 1Infinitive absolute 1
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.
And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.
Pi'el
Participle (active) 8
And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the Lord, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
Pu'al
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Participle (passive) 1
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord.
Hitpa'el
Infinitive construct 1
And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›