לָקַט
la.qat
“to gather”
Definition
properly, to pick up, i.e. (generally) to gather; specifically, to glean
a primitive root;
- to pick up, gather, glean, gather up 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to pick up, gather 1a2) to glean 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to gather, gather up 1b2) to collect (money) 1b3) to glean 1c) (Pual) to be picked up 1d) (Hithpael) to collect oneself
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logos (G3056)
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
לָקַט appears 34 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Then Jonathan cried out, “Hurry! Make haste! Do not delay!” So the boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.
When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.
Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s palace.
When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.
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