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# gathering

«gathering» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a group of people who meet together, often for a special…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a gathering, gatherings); verb form (gather, gathers, gathered, gathering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A gathering is a group of people who meet together, often for a special reason. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#m1)

2) Gathering is collecting things together, like food or information. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#m2)

3) (formal, rare) A gathered fold in cloth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#m3)

4) Gathering your wits means pulling your thoughts together so that you can think clearly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means collecting things, as with the man gathering sticks on the Sabbath, or the "gathering together of the waters" on the third day of creation. Interpretation: The stick-gatherer is read as breaking the law of Sabbath rest, and shows how seriously the Sabbath is taken. In the primary lessons: Family gatherings, church gatherings, history (hunter-gatherers), science (gathering data), weather (gathering clouds = a storm is coming).

### examples

- And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. (Torah NUM.15.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#x1)
- And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day. (Torah NUM.15.32, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#x2)
- And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good. (Torah GEN.1.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#x3)
- I hate the gathering of evil doers, and will not sit with the wicked. (Writings PSA.26.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#x4)
- And He made darkness pavilions round about Him, gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies. (Prophets 2SA.22.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#x5)
- We have a big family gathering at Christmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#x6)
- The church held a gathering after the service. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#x7)
- Early people lived by hunting and gathering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#x8)
- We are gathering data for our science project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#x9)
- Storm clouds were gathering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#x10)
- The gathering sang together around the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#x11)
- Gathering his wits together, he said: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gathering/#x12)

### note

«Gathering» is countable as a meeting (a gathering, gatherings). In safety: «gathering point» is where you meet in a fire drill.

### In the corpora

- [And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.600/)
- [And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.601/)
- [And He made darkness pavilions round about Him, gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.671/)
- [I hate the gathering of evil doers, and will not sit with the wicked.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.386/)
- [Big family gatherings bring together relatives who rarely meet, and they can be fun and stressful at the same time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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