Word

לָקַשׁ

lâqash · H3953 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to gather, to glean

    Causative action by which humans bring together and take in objects from scattered places or sources

    Examples

    Job 24:6 “They harvest their feed in the field And glean the vineyard of the wicked.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Near synonyms 2 words
קָשַׁשׁ qâshash · H7197 · to gather, to come together, to collect
Both words are verbs of gathering with directly overlapping content and could substitute for each other in sense.
קָבַץ qâbats · H6908 · to come together, to gather, to assemble
Both לָקַשׁ (lâqash, H3953) and קָבַץ (qâbats, H6908) denote gathering or collecting actions in the sphere of assembly; לָקַשׁ (lâqash, H3953) is rare, being attested only once, while קָבַץ describes assembling and gathering that overlaps with לָקַשׁ (lâqash, H3953)’s sense of “gather.”
Semantic domains 1 entry
Gather002003002013
לָקַשׁ means to gather, appearing in Job 24:6's picture of the poor forced to "gather their fodder in the field," placing it among terms of collecting.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3953. laqash [לָקַשׁ] verb only Pi`el3masculine plural, probably denominative from…
H3953. laqash
[לָקַשׁ] verb only
Pi`el3masculine plural, probably denominative from לֶקֶשׁ = take the aftermath, i.e. take everything (Wetzst in DeHiob 26, 6) (> Buhl II. לקשׁ, compare Arabic schnell zusammenraffen [compare Lane2668]); — despoil; ׃ יְלֵַקּשׁוּ רָשָׁע וְכֶרֶם Job 24:6 and the vineyard of the wicked (but read probably עָשִׁיר the rich Bu Du) they despoil (|| קָצַר).
לשׁד (√ of following, compare Arabic suck, lick (Ethiopic butter); so Thes and on Psa 32:4 De Bae, also DiNum 11:8).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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