לָקַשׁ lâqash — to gather the after crop

pronounced law-kash' · Strong's H3953 · 1 occurrence in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Pi'el

Translated in the KJV as gather.

a primitive root; to gather the after crop.

lâqash in each stem

Pi'el 1×

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 1

יְלַקֵּֽשׁוּ Job 24:6 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural

They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. (KJV)

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 ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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