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# לַהֲקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3862

**band** — 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

band [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3862/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לַהֲקָה: n.f. band, company [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3862/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. dub.; according to 𝔊𝔖𝔗 Aq Symm band, company (perhaps by transp. from קְהִלָּה, cf. Thes (קַהֲלָה) The Klo Bu; v. also HPS).—לַהֲקַת הַנְּבִיאִים 1 S 19:20.

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: the company (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 19:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.20/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח שָׁא֣וּל מַלְאָכִים֮ לָקַ֣חַת אֶת־דָּוִד֒ וַיַּ֗רְא אֶֽת־לַהֲקַ֤ת הַנְּבִיאִים֙ נִבְּאִ֔ים וּשְׁמוּאֵ֕ל עֹמֵ֥ד נִצָּ֖ב עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם וַתְּהִ֞י עַֽל־מַלְאֲכֵ֤י שָׁאוּל֙ ר֣וּחַ אֱלֹהִ֔ים וַיִּֽתְנַבְּא֖וּ גַּם־הֵֽמָּה׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent Saul messengers to fetch (et) David and he.saw (et) the.company of the.prophets prophesying and Samuel \[was\].standing chief over them and it.was on the.messengers of.Saul the.spirit of.God and they.prophesied also they

*JPS 1917:* And Saul sent messengers to take David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3862.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3862/): 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).