לָקַט

Genesis 31:46 לִקְט֣וּ gather

and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.

Genesis 47:14 וַיְלַקֵּ֣ט and he gathered up

Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s palace.

Here: This form of the verb is used for gleaning, as when Ruth picks up stalks the reapers left behind (Ruth 2). It pictures Joseph picking up the silver bit by bit until none was left.

Exodus 16:4 וְלָֽקְטוּ֙ and they will gather

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.

Here: Picking up small things scattered on the ground. Ruth uses this verb for gleaning grain. It is a stooping, hand-by-hand kind of gathering.

Exodus 16:5 יִלְקְט֖וּ they will gather

Then on the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”

Exodus 16:16 לִקְט֣וּ gather

This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”

Exodus 16:17 וַֽיִּלְקְט֔וּ and they gathered [it]

So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less.

Exodus 16:18 לָקָֽטוּ׃ they had gathered

When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.

Here: "They had gathered," a completed action that sums up the result: when it was all measured, each had in fact gathered exactly what matched his eating. The verb is used for picking things up off the ground, as in gleaning (Ruth 2).

Exodus 16:21 וַיִּלְקְט֤וּ and they gathered

Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

Exodus 16:22 לָֽקְט֥וּ they gathered

On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food—two omers per person—and all the leaders of the congregation came and reported this to Moses.

Exodus 16:26 תִּלְקְטֻ֑הוּ you will gather it

For six days you may gather, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be there.”

Here: "You (all) will gather it." The verb is used for picking up scattered things from the ground, such as gleaning grain or collecting stones. The ending "-hu" ("it") points back to the manna (Hebrew *man*, a masculine word). The form can be read as an instruction ("you shall gather") or as permission ("you may gather"). Either way it sets out the pattern the people are to follow.

Exodus 16:27 לִלְקֹ֑ט to gather [it]

Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything.

Leviticus 19:9 תְלַקֵּֽט׃ you will gather

When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

Leviticus 19:10 תְלַקֵּ֑ט you will gather

You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 23:22 תְלַקֵּ֑ט you will gather

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”

Here: An intensive form of "pick up, collect." It suggests going carefully over the ground stalk by stalk. The noun "gleaning" and this verb share a root, so the line reads: "the pickings you shall not pick."

Numbers 11:8 וְלָֽקְט֜וּ and they gathered

The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.

Judges 1:7 מְלַקְּטִים֙ gathering up

Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

Here: Picking things up bit by bit, the verb for gleaning leftovers in a field or collecting manna. No object is stated: the kings scrabbled for whatever fell, like dogs under a table.

Judges 11:3 וַיִּֽתְלַקְּט֤וּ and they joined themselves

So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where worthless men gathered around him and traveled with him.

Ruth 2:2 וַאֲלַקֳטָּ֣ה so I may glean

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.

Ruth 2:3 וַתְּלַקֵּ֣ט and she gleaned

So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.

Ruth 2:7 אֲלַקֳטָה־ let me glean

She has said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the harvesters.’ So she came out and has continued from morning until now, except that she rested a short time in the shelter.”

Ruth 2:8 לִלְקֹט֙ to glean

Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls.

Ruth 2:15 לְלַקֵּ֑ט תְּלַקֵּ֖ט to glean, she will glean

When Ruth got up to glean, Boaz ordered his young men, “Even if she gathers among the sheaves, do not insult her.

Ruth 2:16 וְלִקְּטָ֖ה and she will glean

Rather, pull out for her some stalks from the bundles and leave them for her to gather. Do not rebuke her.”

Ruth 2:17 וַתְּלַקֵּ֥ט לִקֵּ֔טָה and she gleaned, she had gleaned

So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.

Ruth 2:18 לִקֵּ֑טָה she had gleaned

She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out what she had saved from her meal and gave it to Naomi.

Here: 'She had gleaned': the key verb of the chapter. It means picking up the stalks the reapers left behind, which the Law left for the poor. Here it refers to the whole day's result.

Ruth 2:19 לִקַּ֤טְתְּ did you glean

Then her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.

Ruth 2:23 לְלַקֵּ֔ט to glean

So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

1 Samuel 20:38 וַיְלַקֵּ֞ט and he picked up

Then Jonathan cried out, “Hurry! Make haste! Do not delay!” So the boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.

2 Kings 4:39 לְלַקֵּ֣ט וַיְלַקֵּ֥ט to gather, and he gathered

One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.

Psalm 104:28 יִלְקֹט֑וּן they gather !

When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

Song of Songs 6:2 וְלִלְקֹ֖ט and to gather

My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies.

Here: Gathering by hand, one item at a time, as with gleaning in Ruth or picking flowers. Here it is the lover picking blossoms, an image of tender, pleasurable taking.

Isaiah 17:5 כִּמְלַקֵּ֥ט like [one who] gathers

as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

Isaiah 27:12 תְּלֻקְּט֛וּ you will be gathered

In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.

Here: The word used for gleaning, picking up stalks or fallen grain by hand (Ruth 2). The passive form means Israel does not gather itself; it is picked up.

Jeremiah 7:18 מְלַקְּטִ֣ים [are] gathering

The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

Here: The verb is used for gleaning, picking things up one by one. The form describes ongoing action: 'are going about picking up' sticks for fuel. It sounds like a snapshot taken right now.