--- title: קָהָל — assembly · The Tanakh dictionary description: קָהָל (6951), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 123 times: assembly. BDB 1906: n.m. assembly, convocation, congregation. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6951.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ק](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1511.md)‎ / קָהָל‎ # קָהָל «קָהָל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **assembly** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 123 times · **Key:** 6951 · **BDB:** קָהָל ### Glosses assembly (52); the.assembly (40); a.company (12) ### Meaning (OSHB) assembly [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6951/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.m. assembly, convocation, congregation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6951/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 38:15 assembly, convocation, congregation;—abs. ק׳ Je 31:8 +; cstr. קְהַל Ex 12:6 +; sf. קְהָלֶ֑ךָ Ez 38:13, etc.; pl. sf. קְהָלֶיךָ Ez 38:7;— assembly specially convoked: for evil counsel, ‖ סוד Gn 49:6 (poem); ק׳ מרעים ψ 26:5; for civil affairs 1 K 12:3 Pr 5:14; 26:26 Jb 30:28 (Di publice). for war or invasion, Nu 22:4 (E), Ju 20:2; 21:5, 8 1 S 17:47 Ez 16:40; 38:7 (pl. only here), + 8 times Ez; ק׳ גדול (‖ חיל רב) Ez 38:15; ק׳ רב (‖ חיל גדול) 17:17; 38:4; ק׳ נוים Je 50:9; ק׳ עמים Ez 23:24; 32:3. company of returning exiles, Je 31:8 Ezr 2:64 = Ne 7:66. for religious purposes, to hear words of י׳ at Horeb Dt 5:19, ביום הק׳ Dt 9:10; 10:4 (gloss, not in 𝔊), 18:16; word of Jer. Je 26:17; 44:15; for feasts, fasts and worship 2 Ch 20:5; 30:25(×2) Ne 5:13; Jo 2:16 ψ 107:32; ק׳ רב 22:26 + 4 times; וַיֵּאָֽסְפוּ … ק׳ לרב מְאֹד 2 Ch 30:13; ק׳ גדול 1 K 8:65 = 2 Ch 7:8; בתוך (ה)ק׳ 2 Ch 20:14 ψ 22:23. congregation, as organized body: of Isr.: ק׳ יהוה Mi 2:5; Nu 16:3; 20:4 (P), 1 Ch 28:8; (י׳) בא בק׳ Dt 23:2, 3(×2), 4(×2), 9 Ne 13:1; La 1:10; כל ק׳ ישׂראל Dt 31:30; Jos 8:35 (D) Lv 16:17 (P); 1 K 8:14(×2), 22, 55 = 2 Ch 6:3(×2), 12, 13; 1 K 12:3; 1 Ch 13:2; כל ק׳ עדת ישׂראל Ex 12:6 (𝔊 reads בני before יִשׂ׳), Nu 14:5 (P; 𝔊 συναγωγή; MT prob. conflation); כל עם הק׳ Lv 16:33; כל הק׳ Ex 16:3 (P) 1 Ch 13:4 + 12 times Ch; הק׳ Lv 4:13, 14, 21 + 8 times Nu (P), 8 times 2 Ch. restored community in Jerus. Ezr 10:12, 14; Ne 8:2, 17; ק׳ הַגּוֹלָה Ezr 10:8; later the better part of it, ק׳ חסידים ψ 149:1. of angels, ק׳ קדש֯ים ψ 89:6. more gen.: company, assembled multitude, ק׳ גוים Gn 35:11 (P), עמים ק׳ Gn 28:3; 48:4 (P), Nu 22:4 (E), ק׳ רפאים Pr 21:16. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 77 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «קָהָל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6951/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Psalms 26:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.26.5/) שָׂ֭נֵאתִי קְהַ֣ל מְרֵעִ֑ים וְעִם־רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים לֹ֣א אֵשֵֽׁב׃ *Word for word:* I.hate \[the\].assembly of.evil-doers and with wicked.\[people\] not I.sit *JPS 1917:* I hate the gathering of evil doers, and will not sit with the wicked. [Proverbs 21:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.16/) אָדָ֗ם תּ֭וֹעֶה מִדֶּ֣רֶךְ הַשְׂכֵּ֑ל בִּקְהַ֖ל רְפָאִ֣ים יָנֽוּחַ׃ *Word for word:* anyone \[who\].wanders from.\[the\] way of.insight in.\[the\] assembly of.\[the\].shades he.will.rest *JPS 1917:* The man that strayeth out of the way of understanding shall rest in the congregation of the shades. - ← previous: [קָהַל](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6950.md) - next →: [קְהִלָּה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6952.md) - ↑ back to [ק](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1511.md)