What does Acaph mean?

Acaph (אָסַף, Strong's H622) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.). The King James Bible translates it as assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), × generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, × surely, take (away, into, up), × utterly, withdraw.

What is the Strong's number for Acaph?

The Strong's number for Acaph (אָסַף) is H622. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Acaph (Strong’s H622): Meaning in the Bible

Acaph (אָסַף) is the Hebrew word numbered H622 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.). In the King James Bible it is translated assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch.

אָסַף

ʼâçaph · Hebrew

Strong’s H622 · aw-saf'

Original wordאָסַף
Transliterationʼâçaph
Pronunciationaw-saf'
Part of speechverb (v)
Strong’s numberH622
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), × generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, × surely, take (away, into, up), × utterly, withdraw. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Acaph appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Acaph (H622) stands behind 208 English renderings in 187 verses across 31 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Numbers (20), Isaiah (17), 2 Samuel (16).

How the King James Bible renders Acaph, by count

gathered57 of 208 (27 percent)
together52 of 208 (25 percent)
gather32 of 208 (15 percent)
assemble10 of 208 (5 percent)
away9 of 208 (4 percent)
assembled5 of 208 (2 percent)

Three places to read Acaph

Genesis 6:21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
Judges 20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
Psalms 47:9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Acaph in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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