אָגַר

לָקַט lâqaṭ · H3950 · to gather, to glean

Both are verbs of gathering with overlapping core senses. לָקַט additionally carries the more specialized sense of gleaning, a narrower agricultural usage, while the shared core sense of "to gather" is held by both.

אָסַף ʼâçaph · H622 · to gather, to be assembled, to assemble

Both are verbs of gathering or collecting. אָסַף has a much wider range of extended senses (to consume, to destroy, to recover), but its core sense of "to gather, to assemble" overlaps directly with the narrower "gather" meaning of אָגַר (ʼâgar, H103).

קָהַל qâhal · H6950 · to gather together, to assemble, to gather

Both words denote gathering or assembling, describing overlapping ideas of collecting or convening.

כָּנַס kânaç · H3664 · to gather, to assemble, to curl up

Both words share a core sense of "to gather." כנס shows additional nuances such as "to heap up" or "to wrap oneself," but its primary gathering sense is shared directly with אָגַר (ʼâgar, H103).

צָבַר tsâbar · H6651 · to heap up, to pile up, to store up

Both words denote gathering or collecting actions, sharing the same core sense and able to substitute for each other in context.

קָצַר qâtsar · H7114 · to be short, to be impatient

קָצַר is a polysemous verb with several distinct senses (to be short, to be impatient, and, among others, to reap or harvest), and it is specifically in its harvest or reaping sense that it genuinely overlaps with the target, a dedicated 'gather' verb. The pairing represents a real overlap for the harvest sense specifically, where both words can describe the activity of gathering or harvesting.

קָבַץ qâbats · H6908 · to come together, to gather, to assemble

Both words denote gathering or assembling actions; they are distinct Hebrew words that can substitute for each other in similar contexts, and their senses overlap clearly as actions of gathering or collecting.

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אָגַר describes gathering in a harvest or provision, as the ant that gathers its food in summer.

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.