Strong's Hebrew · H622
H622 ʼâçaph
אָסַף
aw-saf'
to gather
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ʼâçaph appears 200 times in Scripture, including Genesis 6:21 and Genesis 25:8. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)
In the King James Version
assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), × generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, × surely, take (away, into, up), × utterly, withdraw.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 200 times in Scripture
“But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.””
““Look,” said Jacob, “it is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.””
“So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.”
“You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.””
“And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.”
“Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.””
“Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.”
“Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.”
“When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.”
“and she conceived and gave birth to a son. “God has taken away my shame,” she said.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
