Exodus 12:3
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
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Congregation
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Acts 13:43
Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
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134 occurrences in 120 verses.
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Exodus
4948 verses
Leviticus
5750 verses
Numbers
134120 verses
Deuteronomy
107 verses
Joshua
1816 verses
Judges
55 verses
1 Samuel
11 verses
1 Kings
98 verses
1 Chronicles
109 verses
2 Chronicles
3026 verses
Ezra
55 verses
Nehemiah
55 verses
Job
22 verses
Psalms
1818 verses
Proverbs
33 verses
Isaiah
11 verses
Jeremiah
22 verses
Lamentations
11 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Joel
11 verses
Micah
11 verses
Acts
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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מוֹעֵד
môwʻêd · mo-ade'
149 times translated as this KJV form223 total Strong's occurrences
properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand)
Strong's KJV usage: appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn(-ity), synogogue, (set) time (appointed).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 27:21Strong's last: Isaiah 14:13
Open full H4150 profile →עֵדָה
ʻêdâh · ay-daw'
124 times translated as this KJV form149 total Strong's occurrences
a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
Strong's KJV usage: assembly, company, congregation, multitude, people, swarm. Compare 5713.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 12:3Strong's last: Hosea 7:12
Open full H5712 profile →קָהָל
qâhâl · kaw-hawl'
86 times translated as this KJV form123 total Strong's occurrences
assemblage (usually concretely)
Strong's KJV usage: assembly, company, congregation, multitude.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 4:14Strong's last: Micah 2:5
Open full H6951 profile →חַי
chay · khah'-ee
2 times translated as this KJV form498 total Strong's occurrences
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, merry, multitude, (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Strong's first: Psalms 68:10Strong's last: Psalms 74:19
Open full H2416 profile →συναγωγή
synagōgḗ · soon-ag-o-gay'
1 times translated as this KJV form57 total Strong's occurrences
an assemblage of persons; specially, a Jewish "synagogue" (the meeting or the place); by analogy, a Christian church
Strong's KJV usage: :--assembly, congregation, synagogue.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 13:43Strong's last: Acts 13:43
Open full G4864 profile →אֵלֶם
ʼêlem · ay'-lem
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
silence (i.e. mute justice)
Strong's KJV usage: congregation. Compare 3128.
Strong's first: Psalms 58:1Strong's last: Psalms 58:1
Open full H482 profile →קְהִלָּה
qᵉhillâh · keh-hil-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
an assemblage
Strong's KJV usage: assembly, congregation.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 33:4Strong's last: Deuteronomy 33:4
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H5712
Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
H5712
And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
H6951
They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
H5712
But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
H5712
And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.
H4150
And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.
H4150
And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
H5712
Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
H5712
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
H6951
And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
H4150
And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
H4150
And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
H4150
And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
H4150
And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
H4150
And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
H4150
Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
H4150
But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
H4150
And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
H4150
And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
H5712
And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
H6951
But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
H5712
Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
H5712
And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
H6951
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
H4150
And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
English meaning and historical usage.
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congregation
CONGREGATION, noun
1. The act of bringing together, or assembling.
2. A collection or assemblage of separate things; as a congregation of vapors.
3. More generally, an assembly or persons; and appropriately, an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction.
4. An assembly of rulers. Numbers 35:12.
5. An assembly of ecclesiastics or cardinals appointed by the pope; as the congregation of the holy office, etc. Also, a company or society of religious cantoned out of an order.
6. An academical assembly for transacting business of the university.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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