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# קָשַׁשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7197

**gather stubble** — used 8 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

gather stubble [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7197/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָשַׁשׁ: vb.denom.Pōʿ. gather stubble [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7197/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom.Pōʿ. gather stubble;—Pf. 3 pl. consec. וְקשְׁשׁוּ Ex 5:7; Inf. cstr. לְקשֵׁשׁ v 12; Pt. מְקשֵׁשׁ Nu 15:32, 33, f. מְקשֶׁשֶׁת 1 K 17:10, 12;—gather stubble, c. acc. cogn. קַשׁ Ex 5:12 (לַתּבֶן); also c. acc. תֶּבֶן v 7 (both J); c. acc. עֵצִים as firewood Nu 15:32, 33 (P), 1 K 17:10, 12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: gathering (2); \[am\] gathering (1); \[was\] gathering (1).

## In the verses

[Zephaniah 2:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.1/#tree)

הִֽתְקוֹשְׁשׁ֖וּ וָק֑וֹשּׁוּ הַגּ֖וֹי לֹ֥א נִכְסָֽף׃

*Word for word:* gather.yourselves.together and gather.together O nation not ashamed

*JPS 1917:* Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O shameless nation;

[Exodus 5:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.12/#tree)

וַיָּ֥פֶץ הָעָ֖ם בְּכָל־אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם לְקֹשֵׁ֥שׁ קַ֖שׁ לַתֶּֽבֶן׃

*Word for word:* and it.scattered the people in all the.land of.Egypt to gather stubble for the straw

*JPS 1917:* So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7197.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7197/): 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).