לָקַט
lâqaṭ · law-kat'
properly, to pick up, i.e. (generally) to gather; specifically, to glean
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to pick up, i.e. (generally) to gather; specifically, to glean
- properly, to pick up, i.e. (generally) to gather
- specifically, to glean
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: gather (up), glean.
Letters
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- טTet9
Picture: a basket, or something coiled
- Concrete
- basket · coil · snake · container
- Extended
- to surround · to contain · to store · to twist
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
authority, the one who leads › what comes behind, the returning cycle › to surround and contain
Authority, the one who leads of what comes behind, the returning cycle that works to surround and contain.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of לָקַט above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
37 occurrences · 37 OT · 0 NT · 35 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- gather3 · 9%
- neither shalt thou gather3 · 9%
- gathered up2 · 6%
- they gathered2 · 6%
- and gathered2 · 6%
- to glean2 · 6%
- and gather1 · 3%
- as much as they gather1 · 3%
- so, and gathered1 · 3%
- and they gathered1 · 3%
- ye shall gather1 · 3%
- for to gather1 · 3%
- gathered1 · 3%
- and there were gathered1 · 3%
- and glean1 · 3%
- and gleaned1 · 3%
- i pray you, let me glean1 · 3%
- not to glean1 · 3%
- let her glean1 · 3%
- them, that she may glean1 · 3%
- so she gleaned1 · 3%
- that she had gleaned1 · 3%
- what she had gleaned1 · 3%
- unto her, where hast thou gleaned1 · 3%
- to gather1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.