Bible word study

Qahal (Strong’s H6951): Meaning in the Bible

Qahal (קָהָל) is the Hebrew word numbered H6951 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as assemblage (usually concretely). In the King James Bible it is translated assembly, company, congregation, multitude..

• Original wordקָהָל
• Transliterationqâhâl
• Pronunciationkaw-hawl'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH6951
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H6950;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Qahal appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Qahal (H6951) stands behind 123 English renderings in 116 verses across 21 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in 2 Chronicles (26), Ezekiel (15), Numbers (12).

How the King James Bible renders Qahal, by count

• congregation86 of 123 (70 percent)
• assembly17 of 123 (14 percent)
• company16 of 123 (13 percent)
• multitude3 of 123 (2 percent)
• companies1 of 123 (1 percent)

Three places to read Qahal

• Genesis 28:3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
• 1 Kings 8:22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
• Nehemiah 7:66 The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

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 Qahal 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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