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# עֲצֶרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6116

**assembly** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

assembly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6116/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲצָרָה: n.f. assembly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6116/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. assembly (?as confined, held in);—abs. עֲצָרָה Is 1:13 + 2 times; עֲצֶ֫רֶת Dt 16:8 + 3 times, עֲצָ֑רֶת 2 Ch 7:9; cstr. עֲצֶ֫רֶת Je 9:1; pl. sf. עַצְרֹתֵיכֶם Am 5:21;— sacred assembly, rejected by י׳, Is 1:13 and (at Bethel, etc.) Am 5:21; for Baal 2 K 10:20; Dt 16:8 (last day of Maṣṣoth), Lv 23:36 (P), Nu 29:35 (P), Ne 8:18 (all of day after feast of booths), cf. 2 Ch 7:9 \[NH of feast of weeks, 𝔗 עֲצַרְתָּא JosAnt. iii. 10, 6 Ἀσάρτα\]; occasional, Jo 1:14; 2:15. assemblage, company (in gen.), ע׳ בֹּגְדִים Je 9:1 an assemblage of deceivers (Gr עֲדַת; Che חֶבְרַת).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: an assembly (8); \[is\] an assembly (1); assembli\[es\] (1).

## In the verses

[Joel 2:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.15/#tree)

תִּקְע֥וּ שׁוֹפָ֖ר בְּצִיּ֑וֹן קַדְּשׁוּ־צ֖וֹם קִרְא֥וּ עֲצָרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* give.a.blast.on a.ram's.horn in Zion consecrate a.fast call an.assembly

*JPS 1917:* Blow the horn in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly;

[2 Kings 10:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.20/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יֵה֗וּא קַדְּשׁ֧וּ עֲצָרָ֛ה לַבַּ֖עַל וַיִּקְרָֽאוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Jehu consecrate an.assembly to (the) Baal and they.proclaimed.\[it\]

*JPS 1917:* And Jehu said: 'Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal.' And they proclaimed it.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6116/): 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).