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# קְהִלָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6952

**assembly** — used 2 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/1511/6952/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קְהִלָּה: n.f. assembly, congregation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6952/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. assembly, congregation;—abs. ק׳ Ne 5:7; cstr. קְהִלַּת Dt 33:4 (poem).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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, 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 (1); the assembly (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 33:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.4/#tree)

תּוֹרָ֥ה צִוָּה־לָ֖נוּ מֹשֶׁ֑ה מוֹרָשָׁ֖ה קְהִלַּ֥ת יַעֲקֹֽב׃

*Word for word:* a.law he.commanded to us Moses a.possession the.assembly of.Jacob

*JPS 1917:* Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

[Nehemiah 5:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.5.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.5.7/#tree)

וַיִּמָּלֵ֨ךְ לִבִּ֜י עָלַ֗י וָאָרִ֙יבָה֙ אֶת־הַחֹרִ֣ים וְאֶת־הַסְּגָנִ֔ים וָאֹמְרָ֣ה לָהֶ֔ם מַשָּׁ֥אאִישׁ־בְּאָחִ֖יו אַתֶּ֣ם נשאיםוָאֶתֵּ֥ן עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם קְהִלָּ֥ה גְדוֹלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.considered heart my with me and I contended with the nobles and with the officials and I said to them usury each on brother his you \[are\].lending and I.made on them an.assembly great

*JPS 1917:* Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said unto them: 'Ye lend upon pledge, every one to his brother.' And I held a great assembly against them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6952.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6952/): 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).