Qahal קָהָל

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Qahal
קָהָל
Transliterationqahal
Strong's numberH6951
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glossassembly
Occurrences123 in 116 verses
Most frequent in2 Chronicles (23)

Qahal (Hebrew קָהָל, Strong's H6951) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “assembly”. It occurs 123 times in 116 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) assembly, company, congregation, convocation
1a) assembly
1a1) for evil counsel, war or invasion, religious purposes
1b) company (of returning exiles)
1c) congregation
1c1) as organised body

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVcongregation (86), assembly (17), company (16), multitude (3), companies (1)
BSBassembly (91), company (5), mob (3), assembly of people (2), horde (2), even a company (1), multitude (1), their assembly (1), this horde (1), assembled here (1), whole assembly (1), your assembly (1), and 8 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Qahal, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

1 Samuel

1 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Joel

Micah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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