קָהַל qâhal — to convoke
Translated in the KJV as assemble, gather.
a primitive root; to convoke.
qâhal in each stem
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 8Imperative 5Perfect (qatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive construct 1Jussive 1
And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the Lord hath commanded, that ye should do them.
And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
Niph'al
Wayyiqtol 12Perfect (qatal) 4Infinitive construct 2Participle (passive) 1
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
And Moses did as the Lord commanded him; and the assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?
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 ›