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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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
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11 verses
Micah
11 verses
Acts
11 verses
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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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H4150
And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.
H5712
Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
H4150
And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.
H4150
Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
H5712
Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
H5712
And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
H4150
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
H5712
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
H5712
These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
H5712
And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
H5712
But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
H4150
Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
H4150
Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.
H5712
And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.
H4150
And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.
H4150
And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
H4150
And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
H4150
And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
H4150
But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
H4150
From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
H4150
This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
H4150
And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.
H4150
From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
H4150
And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
H4150
And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
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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