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title: אֹסֵף — gathering · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֹסֵף (625), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: gathering. BDB 1906: n.m. gathering. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֹסֵף

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«אֹסֵף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **gathering** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 625 · **BDB:** אֹ֫סֶף

### Glosses

(the).gathering (1); \[the\].gathering (1); gathering(s) (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

gathering [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/625/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. gathering [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/625/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 32:10 gathering (on formation cf. BaNB 109) of summer fruit אָסְפֵּי־קַיִץ Mi 7:1; cf. abs. אֹסָף Is 32:10; א׳ הֶחָסִיל gathering of the locust, i.e. as the locust devours, destroys Is 33:4.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֹסֵף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/625/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 32:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.10/)

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יָמִים֙ עַל־שָׁנָ֔ה תִּרְגַּ֖זְנָה בֹּֽטְח֑וֹת כִּ֚י כָּלָ֣ה בָצִ֔יר אֹ֖סֶף בְּלִ֥י יָבֽוֹא׃

*Word for word:* days with a.year you.will.be.agitated O.confident.\[women\] (dm) it.will.fail \[the\].grape.harvest \[the\].gathering not it.will.come

*JPS 1917:* After a year and days shall ye be troubled, ye confident women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.

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[Isaiah 33:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.4/)

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וְאֻסַּ֣ף שְׁלַלְכֶ֔ם אֹ֖סֶף הֶֽחָסִ֑יל כְּמַשַּׁ֥ק גֵּבִ֖ים שׁוֹקֵ֥ק בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be.gathered plunder your (the).gathering of.(the) locust\[s\] like.\[the\] rushing of.locusts \[someone.will.be\].rushing on it

*JPS 1917:* And your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; as locusts leap do they leap upon it.

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