BDB4458
[לָקַט] verb pick or gather up, specifically glean ( Late Hebrew id. and נָקַט; Arabic [untranscribed source text 2850] pick up (as a bird, grains, etc.); Aramaic לְקַט, and נְקַט ; [untranscribed source text 2851]; Mandean לגט (NöM 54, also on Talmud נקט); compare Assyrian lakâtu DlHWB 385 (but ט = t?)); —
Qal
Perfect 3 plural לָֽקְטוּ
Exod 16:22;
Num 11:8, ׳
וְל consecutive Exod 16:4, לָקָ֑טוּ
Exod 16:18
Imperfect 3 masculine plural יִלְקְטוּ
Exod 16:5,
יִלְקֹט֑וּן
Ps 104:28,
וַיִּלְקְטוּ
Exod 16:17;
Exod 16:21 2
masculine plural suffix תִּלְקְטֻהוּ
Exod 16:26
Imperative masculine plural לִקְטוּ
Gen 31:46; Exod 16:16
Infinitive construct
לִלְקֹט
Exod 16:27 + 2
t.; —
1.
pick up, gather, with accusative, stones Gen 31:46 (
J
), lilies Song
6:2 usually the manna: Exod 16:4; Exod 16:5; Exod 16:26 (
J
), Exod
16:21
Exod 16:22 (
P
); followed by מִן partitive Exod 16:16 (
P
); so absolute Exod 16:27; Num 11:8 ( both
J
E
), Exod
16:17;
Exod 16:18 (
P
); of animals gathering food תִּתֵּן לָהֶם יִלְקֹט֑וּן
Ps 104:28
.
2. specifically glean, absolute, Ruth 2:8 (with בְּ local; usually Pi`el
in this sense ).
Pi`el
Perfect 3 feminine singular וְלִקְּטָה consecutive Ruth 2:16, לִקֵּ֑טָה
Ruth 2:17; Ruth 2:18 2
feminine singular לִקַּטְתְּ
Ruth 2:19
Imperfect
וַיְלַקִּט
Gen 47:14 +
2 t.; 3 feminine singular תְּלַקִּט
Ruth 2:15,
׳
וַתּ
Ruth 2:3; Ruth 2:17 2
masculine singular תְּלַקִּט
Lev 19:9 + 2 t.;
1 singular אֲלַקֳּטָה
Ruth 2:2; Ruth 2:7 (compare
BaNB 152, 489); Infinitive construct
לְלַקִּט
Ruth 2:15 + 2
t.; Participle
מְלַקִּט
Isa 17:5,
plural מְלַקְּטִים
Judg 1:7; Jer 7:18 —
1.
gather, gather up, fallen grapes, Lev 19:10 (
H
), arrows 1Sam 20:38, (fire-)wood Jer 7:18 absolute (food from ground) Judg 1:7 (compare GFM); = pick, pick off, 2Kgs 4:39 (twice in verse)
(+ מִן of source ).
2.
figurative
collect (money) Gen 47:14 (
J
).
3. specifically glean, after the reapers, usually absolute Ruth 2:3; Ruth 2:7 (||
אָסַף), Ruth 2:17 (all with בְּ local), Ruth 2:15 (בֵּין
location), Ruth 2:19
(adverb location), also Ruth 2:2 (where בְּ may be local or partitive, compare Be), also Ruth 2:15 Ruth 2:16 Ruth 2:23 with accusative Isa 17:5 (שִׁבֳּלִים, simile of
devastation of land; || אָסַף קָצִיר), Ruth 2:17; Ruth 2:18 with accusative of cognate meaning with verb
לֶקֶט
Lev 19:9 = Lev 23:22 (
H
).
Pu`al
Imperfect 2 masculine plural תְּלֻקְּטוּ
Isa 27:12
ye shall be picked up (of Israel under figure of grains or berries, after the
threshing process of ׳
י's judgment).
Hithpa`el
Imperfect
וַיִּתְלַקְּטוּ
Judg 11:3
and there collected themselves worthless men unto (אֶל)
Jephthah (were raked together
GFM).