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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H4150
This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
H4150
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
H4150
And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,
H4150
This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
H5712
And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
H4150
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:
H4150
These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
H4150
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
H4150
These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD.
H4150
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
H4150
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,
H4150
And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
H4150
And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
H4150
And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
H4150
Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.
H4150
And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.
H4150
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:
H4150
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.
H4150
And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
H5712
And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
H4150
And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
H4150
This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
H4150
But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.
H4150
And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
H6951
But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
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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