עֲצָרָה
ʻătsârâh · H6116 · Hebrew · 11 occurrences
Meanings
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solemn assembly, gathering, day for worship
State in which a large group of people has come together for a religious purpose
ExamplesLeviticus 23:36 ‘For seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the LORD; it is an assembly. You shall not do any laborious work.
Numbers 29:35 ‘On the eighth day you shall have a sacred assembly; you shall do no laborious work.
Deuteronomy 16:8 “For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a festive assembly to the LORD your God; you shall do no work on it.
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company
A large group of persons, having come together for a specific purpose
ExamplesJeremiah 9:2 Oh that I had in the desert A travelers’ lodging place; So that I might leave my people And go away from them! For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous people.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בָּגַדto act unfaithfully 1
- כֶםyour 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָאַףto commit adultery 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is done to itIt is the object
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- קָרָאto call, to cry out 2
- יָכֹלto be able to 1
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
- קָדַשׁto consecrate, to sanctify 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- מוֹעֵד môwʻêd · H4150 · meeting, assembly
- עֲצָרָה (ʻătsârâh, H6116) and מוֹעֵד both denote solemn or festive assemblies, distinct Hebrew words referring to appointed or solemn gatherings in festival contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Festivals002002002011
- עֲצָרָה denotes a solemn assembly, a gathering held in connection with a religious festival.
- Groups001001003004
- The word describes the assembled body of people themselves, the gathering convened for the occasion.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6116. atsarah or atsereth עֲצֶ֫רֶת עֲצָרָה, noun feminine assembly (? as confined, held…
or atsereth עֲצֶ֫רֶת עֲצָרָה, noun feminine assembly (? as confined, held in); — absolute עֲצָרָה Isa 1:13 Isa 1:2t.; עֲצֶ֫רֶת Deu 16:8 Deu 16:3t., עֲצָ֑רֶת2Ch 7:9; construct עֲצֶ֑רֶת Jer 9:1; plural suffix עַצְרֹתֵיכֶם Amo 5:21; —
1 sacred assembly, rejected by ׳י, Isa 1:13 and (at Bethel, etc.) Amo 5:21; for Baal 2Ki 10:20; Deu 16:8 (last day of Maƒƒoth), Lev 23:36 (P), Num 29:35 (P), Neh 8:18 (all of day after feast of booths), compare 2Ch 7:9 [Late Hebrew of feast of weeks, עֲצַרְתָּא ᵑ7 JosAnt. iii. 10, 6 Ἀσάρτα]; occasional, Joe 1:14; Joe 2:15.
2 assemblage, company (in General), ׳ע בֹּגְדִים Jer 9:1 an assemblage of deceivers (Gr עֲדַת; Che חֶבְרַת).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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