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# אֲסַפְסֻף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H628

**collection** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

collection [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/628/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲסַפְסֻף: collection, rabble [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/628/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] collection, rabble, only הָאסַפְסֻף Nu 11:4 of the camp-followers attending Hebrews at the Exodus.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: rabble (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 11:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.4/#tree)

וְהָֽאסַפְסֻף֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּקִרְבּ֔וֹ הִתְאַוּ֖וּ תַּאֲוָ֑ה וַיָּשֻׁ֣בוּ וַיִּבְכּ֗וּ גַּ֚ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ מִ֥י יַאֲכִלֵ֖נוּ בָּשָֽׂר׃

*Word for word:* and the rabble which \[was\].in midst its they.craved a.craving and they.returned and they.wept also the.people of.Israel and they.said who? will he.cause.us.to.eat meat

*JPS 1917:* And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting; and the children of Israel also wept on their part, and said: 'Would that we were given flesh to eat!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/628.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/628/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).