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# gatherer

«gatherer» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person or animal that collects things, such as food…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a gatherer, gatherers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person or animal that collects things, such as food, information or people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gatherer/#m1)

2) Hunter-gatherers: people who live by hunting animals and collecting wild plants, nuts and berries instead of farming. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gatherer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A person who picks the harvest. In these verses it means one who picks grapes in the vineyard. Interpretation: The prophets use the picture of grape-gatherers who leave a few grapes. Even so, enemies will leave Israel less than that, and a "remnant" is all that is left. In the primary lessons: In history lessons, Stone Age people were hunter-gatherers before farming began. In geography, a few groups still live partly this way today. In everyday life, a gatherer collects things, for example a news gatherer or a berry gatherer. Phrases: hunter-gatherers, data gatherer.

### examples

- If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? (Prophets OBA.1.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gatherer/#x1)
- If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, would they not destroy till they had enough? (Prophets JER.49.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gatherer/#x2)
- Thus saith the LORD of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel; turn again thy hand as a grape-gatherer upon the shoots. (Prophets JER.6.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gatherer/#x3)
- Stone Age people were hunter-gatherers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gatherer/#x4)
- Hunter-gatherers moved from place to place to find food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gatherer/#x5)
- The honey gatherer climbed the tall tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gatherer/#x6)
- In our group, I was the information gatherer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gatherer/#x7)
- Squirrels are busy gatherers of nuts in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gatherer/#x8)
- The gatherers came back with baskets of berries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gatherer/#x9)

### note

Countable. From gather (to collect). Hunter-gatherers did not farm or keep crops.

### In the corpora

- [If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/OBA.6/)
- [Hunter-gatherers knew all that by heart, along with hundreds of plants and animals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/3/)
- [The oldest known pottery, found in China, is about 20,000 years old and was made by hunter-gatherers, before farming.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/62-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gatherer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gatherer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.