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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 - And Jacob said to his people, Get stones together; and they did so; and they had a meal there by the stones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:14 - And all the money in Egypt and in the land of Canaan which had been given for grain, came into the hands of Joseph: and he put it in Pharaoh's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:4 - Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out every day and get enough for the day's needs; so that I may put them to the test to see if they will keep my laws or not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:5 - And on the sixth day they are to make ready what they get in, and it will be twice as much as they get on the other days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:16 - This is what the Lord has said, Let every man take up as much as he has need of; at the rate of one omer for every person, let every man take as much as is needed for his family.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:17 - And the children of Israel did so, and some took more and some less.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:18 - And when it was measured, he who had taken up much had nothing over, and he who had little had enough; every man had taken what he was able to make use of.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:21 - And they took it up morning by morning, every man as he had need: and when the sun was high it was gone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:22 - And on the sixth day they took up twice as much of the bread, two omers for every person: and all the rulers of the people gave Moses word of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:26 - For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:27 - But still on the seventh day some of the people went out to get it, and there was not any.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:9 - And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain be cut from the edges of the field, or take up what has been dropped on the earth after the getting in of the grain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:10 - And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:22 - And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain at the edges of the field be cut, and do not take up the grain which has been dropped in the field; let that be for the poor, and for the man from another country: I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:8 - The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing it between stones or hammering it to powder, and boiling it in pots, and they made cakes of it: its taste was like the taste of cakes cooked with oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:7 - And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:3 - So Jephthah went in flight from his brothers and was living in the land of Tob, where a number of good-for-nothing men, joining Jephthah, went out with him on his undertakings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2 - And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:3 - And she went, and came and took up the heads of grain in the field after the cutters; and by chance she went into that part of the field which was the property of Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:7 - And she said to me, Let me come into the grain-field and take up the grain after the cutters. So she came, and has been here from morning till now, without resting even for a minute.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8 - Then said Boaz to Ruth, Give ear to me, my daughter: do not go to take up the grain in another field, or go away from here, but keep here by my young women:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:15 - And when she got ready to take up the grain, Boaz gave his young men orders, saying, Let her take it even from among the cut grain, and say nothing to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:16 - And let some heads of grain be pulled out of what has been corded up, and dropped for her to take, and let no sharp word be said to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:17 - So she went on getting together the heads of grain till evening; and after crushing out the seed it came to about an ephah of grain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:18 - And she took it up and went into the town; and she let her mother-in-law see what she had got, and after taking enough for herself she gave her the rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:19 - And her mother-in-law said to her, Where did you take up the grain today, and where were you working? May a blessing be on him who gave such attention to you. And she gave her mother-in-law an account of where she had been working, and said, The name of the man with whom I was working today is Boaz.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:23 - So she kept near the servant-girls of Boaz to take up the grain till the cutting of the early grain and the cutting of the late grain were ended; and she went on living with her mother-in-law.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:38 - And Jonathan went on crying out after the boy, Be quick, do not keep waiting about, go quickly. And Jonathan's boy got the arrow and came back to his master.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:39

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:39 - And one went out into the field to get green plants and saw a vine of the field, and pulling off the fruit of it till the fold of his robe was full, he came back and put the fruit, cut up small, into the pot of soup, having no idea what it was.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:28 - They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:2 - My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:5 - And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 - And it will be in that day that the Lord will get together his grain, from the River to the stream of Egypt, and you will be got together with care, O children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18 - The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.
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