Triliteral Root of the Day

Gather; collect; assemble. The Triliteral Root of the Day from OCABS, in Hebrew and Arabic, with passages from the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Qurʾan.

Show Notes

ק-ב-צ (qof–bet–ṣade) / ق–ب–ض (qāf–bāʾ–ḍād)

Gather; collect; assemble

In the Hebrew Bible: qabaṣ, gather · qebuṣah, a gathering · qibbuṣ, heap

In the Qurʾan: qabaḍ, withholds · qabḍa, a handful · maqbūḍa, in hand · qabḍ, a withdrawal

Sound-law correspondence and an explicit cognate link. ḥurūf al-ʾiṭbāq, at the lām: ḍād gathered under ṣade.

Passages

  • Judges 9:47: It was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
  • 1 Samuel 8:4: Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;
  • Genesis 49:2: Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.
  • Matthew 25:38: When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?
  • Matthew 22:41: Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
  • 2 Corinthians 6:17: Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.”
  • Sūrat al-Furqān سورة الفرقان “The Criterion” 25:46: Then We withdraw it unto Us, a gradual withdrawal?
  • Sūrat al-Mulk سورة الملك “The Sovereignty” 67:19: Have they not seen the birds above them spreading out their wings and closing them? Naught upholdeth them save the Beneficent. Lo! He is Seer of all things.
  • Sūrat al-Baqara سورة البقرة “The Cow” 2:245: Who is it that will lend unto Allah a goodly loan, so that He may give it increase manifold? Allah straiteneth and enlargeth. Unto Him ye will return.

The whole card on ocabs.org · The Consolation of Consonants

Opening music: Touchia Ḥijāz, Thami Ben Abdelkrim, violin, with percussion (Morocco, 1920s), public domain. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF, Archives de la Parole.

What is Triliteral Root of the Day?

Every day, one Semitic triliteral root heard in three scriptures: the root in Hebrew and Arabic, how it functions, and a passage from the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Qurʾan, read in the original languages with the English. Two or three minutes a day, from OCABS on the Ephesus School Network.