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Lexicon :: Strong's H3950 - lāqaṭ

Aa
לָקַט
Transliteration
lāqaṭ
Pronunciation
law-kat'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1125

Strong’s Definitions

לָקַט lâqaṭ, law-kat'; a primitive root; properly, to pick up, i.e. (generally) to gather; specifically, to glean:—gather (up), glean.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H3950 in the following manner: gather (23x), glean (12x), gather up (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H3950 in the following manner: gather (23x), glean (12x), gather up (2x).

  1. to pick up, gather, glean, gather up

    1. (Qal)

      1. to pick up, gather

      2. to glean

    2. (Piel)

      1. to gather, gather up

      2. to collect (money)

      3. to glean

    3. (Pual) to be picked up

    4. (Hithpael) to collect oneself

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לָקַט lâqaṭ, law-kat'; a primitive root; properly, to pick up, i.e. (generally) to gather; specifically, to glean:—gather (up), glean.
STRONGS H3950: Abbreviations
† [לָקַט] verb pick or gather up, specifically glean (Late Hebrew id. and נָקַט; Arabic bdb054401 pick up (as a bird, grains, etc.); Aramaic לְקַט, and נְקַט; bdb054402; Mandean לגט (NöM 54, also on Talmud נקט); compare Assyrian laḳâtu DlHWB 385 (but ט = t?)); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person plural לָֽקְטוּ Exodus 16:22; Numbers 11:8, וְל׳ consecutive Exodus 16:4, לָקָ֑טוּ Exodus 16:18; Imperfect 3rd person masculine plural יִלְקְטוּ Exodus 16:5, יִלְקֹט֑וּן Psalm 104:28, וַיִּלְקְטוּ Exodus 16:17, 21; 2nd person masculine plural suffix תִּלְקְטֻהוּ Exodus 16:26; Imperative masculine plural לִקְטוּ Genesis 31:46; Exodus 16:16; Infinitive construct לִלְקֹט Exodus 16:27 + 2 times; —
1. pick up, gather, with accusative, stones Genesis 31:46 (J), lilies Songs 6:2; usually the manna: Exodus 16:4, 5, 26 (J), Exodus 16:21; Exodus 16:22 (P); followed by מִן partitive Exodus 16:16 (P); so absolute Exodus 16:27; Numbers 11:8 (both J E), Exodus 16:17, 18 (P); of animals gathering food תִּתֵּן לָהֶם יִלְקֹט֑וּן Psalm 104:28.
2. specifically glean, absolute, Ruth 2:8 (with בְּ local; usually Pi. in this sense).
Pi. Perfect 3rd person feminine singular וְלִקְּטָה consecutive Ruth 2:16, לִקֵּ֑טָה Ruth 2:17, 18; 2nd person feminine singular לִקַּטְתְּ Ruth 2:19; Imperfect וַיְלַקִּט Genesis 47:14 + 2 times; 3rd person feminine singular תְּלַקִּט Ruth 2:15, וַתּ׳ Ruth 2:3, 17; 2nd person masculine singular תְּלַקִּט Leviticus 19:9 + 2 times; 1st person singular אֲלַקֳּטָה Ruth 2:2, 7 (compare BaNB 152, 489); Infinitive construct לְלַקִּט Ruth 2:15 + 2 times; Participle מְלַקִּט Isaiah 17:5, plural מְלַקְּטִים Judges 1:7; Jeremiah 7:18; —
1. gather, gather up, fallen grapes, Leviticus 19:10 (H), arrows 1 Samuel 20:38, (fire-)wood Jeremiah 7:18; absolute (food from ground) Judges 1:7 (compare GFM); = pick, pick off, 2 Kings 4:39 (twice in verse) (+ מִן of source).
2. figurative collect (money) Genesis 47:14 (J).
3. specifically glean, after the reapers, usually absolute Ruth 2:3, 7 (|| אָסַף), Ruth 2:17 (all with בְּ local), Ruth 2:15 (בֵּין location), Ruth 2:19 (adverb location), also Ruth 2:2 (where בְּ may be local or partitive, compare Be), also Ruth 2:15; Ruth 2:16; Ruth 2:23; with accusative Isaiah 17:5 (שִׁבֳּלִים, simile of devastation of land; || אָסַף קָצִיר), Ruth 2:17, 18; with accusative of congnate meaning with verb לֶקֶט Leviticus 19:9 = Leviticus 23:22 (H).
Pu. Imperfect 2nd person masculine plural תְּלֻקְּטוּ Isaiah 27:12 ye shall be picked up (of Israel under figure of grains or berries, after the threshing process of י׳'s judgment).
Hithp. Imperfect וַיִּתְלַקְּטוּ Judges 11:3 and there collected themselves worthless men unto (אֶל) Jephthah (were raked together GFM).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

31:46; 31:46; 47:14; 47:14

Exodus

16:4; 16:4; 16:5; 16:5; 16:16; 16:16; 16:17; 16:17; 16:18; 16:18; 16:21; 16:21; 16:22; 16:22; 16:26; 16:26; 16:27; 16:27

Leviticus

19:9; 19:9; 19:10; 23:22

Numbers

11:8; 11:8

Judges

1:7; 1:7; 11:3

Ruth

2:2; 2:2; 2:3; 2:3; 2:7; 2:7; 2:8; 2:15; 2:15; 2:15; 2:15; 2:16; 2:16; 2:17; 2:17; 2:17; 2:17; 2:18; 2:18; 2:19; 2:19; 2:23

1 Samuel

20:38

2 Kings

4:39

Psalms

104:28; 104:28

Song of Songs

6:2

Isaiah

17:5; 17:5; 27:12

Jeremiah

7:18; 7:18

H3950

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3950 matches the Hebrew לָקַט (lāqaṭ),
which occurs 37 times in 34 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46 - Then he told his family members, “Gather some stones.” So they gathered stones and piled them in a heap. Then Jacob and Laban sat down beside the pile of stones to eat a covenant meal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:14 - By selling grain to the people, Joseph eventually collected all the money in Egypt and Canaan, and he put the money in Pharaoh’s treasury.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:4 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Look, I’m going to rain down food from heaven for you. Each day the people can go out and pick up as much food as they need for that day. I will test them in this to see whether or not they will follow my instructions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:5 - On the sixth day they will gather food, and when they prepare it, there will be twice as much as usual.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:16 - These are the LORD’s instructions: Each household should gather as much as it needs. Pick up two quarts[fn] for each person in your tent.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:17 - So the people of Israel did as they were told. Some gathered a lot, some only a little.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:18 - But when they measured it out,[fn] everyone had just enough. Those who gathered a lot had nothing left over, and those who gathered only a little had enough. Each family had just what it needed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:21 - After this the people gathered the food morning by morning, each family according to its need. And as the sun became hot, the flakes they had not picked up melted and disappeared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:22 - On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much as usual—four quarts[fn] for each person instead of two. Then all the leaders of the community came and asked Moses for an explanation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:26 - You may gather the food for six days, but the seventh day is the Sabbath. There will be no food on the ground that day.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:27 - Some of the people went out anyway on the seventh day, but they found no food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:9 - “When you harvest the crops of your land, do not harvest the grain along the edges of your fields, and do not pick up what the harvesters drop.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:10 - It is the same with your grape crop—do not strip every last bunch of grapes from the vines, and do not pick up the grapes that fall to the ground. Leave them for the poor and the foreigners living among you. I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:22 - “When you harvest the crops of your land, do not harvest the grain along the edges of your fields, and do not pick up what the harvesters drop. Leave it for the poor and the foreigners living among you. I am the LORD your God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:8 - The people would go out and gather it from the ground. They made flour by grinding it with hand mills or pounding it in mortars. Then they boiled it in a pot and made it into flat cakes. These cakes tasted like pastries baked with olive oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:7 - Adoni-bezek said, “I once had seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off, eating scraps from under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.” They took him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:3 - So Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Soon he had a band of worthless rebels following him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2 - One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go out into the harvest fields to pick up the stalks of grain left behind by anyone who is kind enough to let me do it.”
Naomi replied, “All right, my daughter, go ahead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:3 - So Ruth went out to gather grain behind the harvesters. And as it happened, she found herself working in a field that belonged to Boaz, the relative of her father-in-law, Elimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:7 - She asked me this morning if she could gather grain behind the harvesters. She has been hard at work ever since, except for a few minutes’ rest in the shelter.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8 - Boaz went over and said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Stay right here with us when you gather grain; don’t go to any other fields. Stay right behind the young women working in my field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:15 - When Ruth went back to work again, Boaz ordered his young men, “Let her gather grain right among the sheaves without stopping her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:16 - And pull out some heads of barley from the bundles and drop them on purpose for her. Let her pick them up, and don’t give her a hard time!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:17 - So Ruth gathered barley there all day, and when she beat out the grain that evening, it filled an entire basket.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:18 - She carried it back into town and showed it to her mother-in-law. Ruth also gave her the roasted grain that was left over from her meal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:19 - “Where did you gather all this grain today?” Naomi asked. “Where did you work? May the LORD bless the one who helped you!”
So Ruth told her mother-in-law about the man in whose field she had worked. She said, “The man I worked with today is named Boaz.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:23 - So Ruth worked alongside the women in Boaz’s fields and gathered grain with them until the end of the barley harvest. Then she continued working with them through the wheat harvest in early summer. And all the while she lived with her mother-in-law.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:38 - Hurry, hurry, don’t wait.” So the boy quickly gathered up the arrows and ran back to his master.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:39

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:39 - One of the young men went out into the field to gather herbs and came back with a pocketful of wild gourds. He shredded them and put them into the pot without realizing they were poisonous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:28 - When you supply it, they gather it.
You open your hand to feed them,
and they are richly satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:2 -

Young Woman

My lover has gone down to his garden,
to his spice beds,
to browse in the gardens
and gather the lilies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:5 - The whole land will look like a grainfield
after the harvesters have gathered the grain.
It will be desolate,
like the fields in the valley of Rephaim after the harvest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 - Yet the time will come when the LORD will gather them together like handpicked grain. One by one he will gather them—from the Euphrates River[fn] in the east to the Brook of Egypt in the west.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18 - No wonder I am so angry! Watch how the children gather wood and the fathers build sacrificial fires. See how the women knead dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. And they pour out liquid offerings to their other idol gods!
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