קָבַץ qâbats — to grasp, i.e. collect
Translated in the KJV as assemble, gather (together, selves together, up), heap, resort, × surely, take up.
a primitive root; to grasp, i.e. collect.
qâbats in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 16Sequential perfect (weqatal) 12Participle (active) 7Perfect (qatal) 6Infinitive construct 3Imperative 2Wayyiqtol 1Infinitive absolute 1Cohortative 1
That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 22Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Imperative 4Participle (active) 2Cohortative 1Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (passive) 1Jussive 1Infinitive construct 1
And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
Niph'al
Wayyiqtol 9Perfect (qatal) 6Imperative 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Infinitive construct 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Participle (active) 1Participle (passive) 1
Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.
Hitpa'el
Wayyiqtol 4Perfect (qatal) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 1
After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
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 ›