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Strong's #3950 - לָקַט
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- to pick up, gather, glean, gather up
- (Qal)
- to pick up, gather
- to glean
- (Piel)
- to gather, gather up
- to collect (money)
- to glean
- (Pual) to be picked up
- (Hithpael) to collect oneself
- (Qal)
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2320) uql (לקתה LQTh) AC: Gather CO: Pouch AB: ?: [from: lq- gathering]
V) uql (לקתה LQTh) - Gather: KJV (37): (vf: Paal, Hitpael, Pual, Piel) gather, glean - Strongs: H3950 (לָקַט)
Nm) uql (לקתה LQTh) - Gathering: KJV (2): gleaning - Strongs: H3951 (לֶקֶט)
tdm) ufqli (ילקותה YLQWTh) - Pouch: For gathering items together. KJV (1): scrip - Strongs: H3219 (יַלְקוּט)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Perfect 3 plural לָֽקְטוּ Exodus 16:22; Numbers 11:8, ׳וְל consecutive Exodus 16:4, לָקָ֑טוּ Exodus 16:18; Imperfect 3 masculine plural יִלְקְטוּ Exodus 16:5, יִלְקֹט֑וּן Psalm 104:28, וַיִּלְקְטוּ Exodus 16:17,21; 2 masculine plural suffix תִּלְקְטֻהוּ Exodus 16:26; Imperative masculine plural לִקְטוּ Genesis 31:46; Exodus 16:16; Infinitive construct לִלְקֹט Exodus 16:27 2t.; —
1 pick up, gather, with accusative, stones Genesis 31:46 (J), lilies Song of Solomon 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`el in this sense ).
Pi`el Perfect 3 feminine singular וְלִקְּטָה consecutive Ruth 2:16, לִקֵּ֑טָה Ruth 2:17,18; 2 feminine singular לִקַּטְתְּ Ruth 2:19; Imperfect וַיְלַקִּט Genesis 47:14 2t.; 3 feminine singular תְּלַקִּט Ruth 2:15, ׳וַתּ Ruth 2:3,17; 2 masculine singular תְּלַקִּט Leviticus 19:9 2t.; 1 singular אֲלַקֳּטָה Ruth 2:2,7 (compare Ba NB 152,489); Infinitive construct לְלַקִּט Ruth 2:15 2t.; 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`al Imperfect 2 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).
Hithpa`el Imperfect וַיִּתְלַקְּטוּ Judges 11:3 and there collected themselves worthless men unto (אֶל) Jephthah ( were raked together GFM).
לָקַט Kal and Piel to gather, to collect, prop. things lying on the ground, e.g. cars of corn, Ruth 2:3,, 15 stones, Genesis 31:46 flowers, Song of Solomon 6:2 manna, Exodus 16:14, seq. Once used of collecting money, Genesis 47:14. [“Arab. لقط to collect any thing lying on the ground; Syr. ܠܩܰܛ Peal and Pael, used of collecting wood; Sam., but Nasor. ܠܓܛ to collect.” Thes.]
Pual, Isaiah 27:12, and
Hithpael, Judges 11:3, to be gathered, assembled (of persons), Arab. and Aram. id.
Hence יַלְקוּט and