Definition
verb
to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)
- to gather, receive, remove, gather in
- (Qal)
- to gather, collect
- to gather (an individual into company of others)
- to bring up the rear
- to gather and take away, remove, withdraw
- (Niphal)
- to assemble, be gathered
- (pass of Qal 1a2)
- to be gathered to one's fathers
- to be brought in or into (association with others)
- (pass of Qal 1a4)
- to be taken away, removed, perish
- (Piel)
- to gather (harvest)
- to take in, receive into
- rearguard, rearward (subst)
- (Pual) to be gathered
- (Hithpael) to gather oneself or themselves
“To be gathered to one’s people” (or “fathers”) means to die and join one’s ancestors: Abraham “died … and was gathered to his people” (Gen 25:8).
Usually translated as
put all together, gather, assemble, recover, take, withdraw, bring, consume, destroy, generally, lose, felch, get, receive, rereward, surely, utterly
Occurrences
ʼâçaph occurs 198 times in 185 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (14), Exodus (6), Leviticus (4), Numbers (15), Deuteronomy (6), Joshua (6), Judges (12), Ruth (1), 1 Samuel (9), 2 Samuel (12), 1 Kings (1), 2 Kings (7), 1 Chronicles (5), 2 Chronicles (12), Ezra (2), Nehemiah (4), Job (3), Psalms (9), Proverbs (2), Ecclesiastes (1), Isaiah (15), Jeremiah (13), Ezekiel (6), Daniel (1), Hosea (2), Joel (4), Amos (1), Micah (3), Habakkuk (3), Zephaniah (3), Zechariah (3)
- Genesis 6:21 — And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather (וְאָסַפְתָּ֖) it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
- Genesis 25:8 — Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered (וַיֵּאָ֖סֶף) to his people.
- Genesis 25:17 — And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered (וַיֵּאָ֖סֶף) unto his people.
- Genesis 29:3 — And thither were all the flocks gathered (וְנֶאֶסְפוּ): and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.
- Genesis 29:7 — And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together (הֵאָסֵ֣ף): water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.
- Genesis 29:8 — And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together (יֵאָֽסְפוּ֙), and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.
- Genesis 29:22 — And Laban gathered together (וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ף) all the men of the place, and made a feast.
- Genesis 30:23 — And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away (אָסַ֥ף) my reproach:
- Genesis 34:30 — And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together (וְנֶאֶסְפ֤וּ) against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
- Genesis 35:29 — And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered (וַיֵּאָ֣סֶף) unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- Genesis 42:17 — And he put them all together (וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ף) into ward three days.
- Genesis 49:1 — And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together (הֵאָֽסְפוּ֙), that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
- Genesis 49:29 — And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered (נֶאֱסָ֣ף) unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
- Genesis 49:33 — And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up (וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ף) his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
- Genesis 49:33 — And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered (וַיֵּאָ֥סֶף) unto his people.
- Exodus 3:16 — Go, and gather (וְאָֽסַפְתָּ֞) the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
- Exodus 4:29 — And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together (וַיַּ֣אַסְפ֔וּ) all the elders of the children of Israel:
- Exodus 9:19 — Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought (יֵֽאָסֵף֙) home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
- Exodus 23:10 — And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in (וְאָסַפְתָּ֖) the fruits thereof:
- Exodus 23:16 — And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in (בְּאָסְפְּךָ֥) thy labours out of the field.
- Exodus 32:26 — Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD’s side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together (וַיֵּאָסְפ֥וּ) unto him.
- Leviticus 23:39 — Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in (בְּאָסְפְּכֶם֙) the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
- Leviticus 25:3 — Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in (וְאָסַפְתָּ֖) the fruit thereof;
- Leviticus 25:20 — And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in (נֶאֱסֹ֖ף) our increase:
- Leviticus 26:25 — And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together (וְנֶאֱסַפְתֶּ֖ם) within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- Numbers 10:25 — And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the (מְאַסֵּ֥ף) rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
- Numbers 11:16 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather (אֶסְפָה) unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
- Numbers 11:22 — Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together (יֵאָסֵ֥ף) for them, to suffice them?
- Numbers 11:24 — And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered (וַיֶּאֱסֹ֞ף) the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.
- Numbers 11:32 — And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered (וַיַּֽאַסְפוּ֙) the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
- Numbers 11:32 — And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered (אָסַ֖ף) ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
- Numbers 12:14 — And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in (תֵּאָסֵֽף) again.
- Numbers 12:15 — And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in (הֵאָסֵ֖ף) again.
- Numbers 19:9 — And a man that is clean shall gather up (וְאָסַ֣ף) the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
- Numbers 19:10 — And he that gathereth (הָאֹסֵ֨ף) the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
- Numbers 20:24 — Aaron shall be gathered (יֵאָסֵ֤ף) unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
- Numbers 20:26 — And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered (יֵאָסֵ֖ף) unto his people, and shall die there.
- Numbers 21:16 — And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together (אֱסֹף֙), and I will give them water.
- Numbers 21:23 — And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together (וַיֶּאֱסֹ֨ף), and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
- Numbers 27:13 — And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered (וְנֶאֱסַפְתָּ֥) unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
- Numbers 27:13 — And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered (נֶאֱסַ֖ף).
- Numbers 31:2 — Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered (תֵּאָסֵ֥ף) unto thy people.
- Deuteronomy 11:14 — That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in (וְאָסַפְתָּ֣) thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
- Deuteronomy 16:13 — Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered (בְּאָ֨סְפְּךָ֔) in thy corn and thy wine:
- Deuteronomy 22:2 — And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring (וַאֲסַפְתּוֹ֙) it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
- Deuteronomy 28:38 — Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in (תֶּאֱסֹ֔ף); for the locust shall consume it.
- Deuteronomy 32:50 — And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered (וְהֵאָסֵ֖ף) unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:
- Deuteronomy 32:50 — And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered (וַיֵּאָ֖סֶף) unto his people:
- Deuteronomy 33:5 — And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered (בְּהִתְאַסֵּף֙) together.
- Joshua 2:18 — Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring (תַּאַסְפִ֥י) thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee.