וְקַבְּצֵ֥נוּ (wə·qab·bə·ṣê·nū) in 1 Chronicles 16:35: Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular | first person common plural
וְקַבְּצֵ֥נוּ (wə·qab·bə·ṣê·nū) in 1 Chronicles 16:35
Source Word
First Chronicles 16:35 row 5 aligns the waw-linked H6908 imperative with gather us between the appeals to save and deliver.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
Gather us gives the petition a corporate object and makes restored worship, not mere relocation, the purpose named by the following clauses. Gather communicates the direct appeal to the singular divine addressee, while us renders the attached first-person plural suffix.
How To Communicate It
Trace the sequence save us, gather and deliver us, give thanks, and glory in praise so the imperative remains corporate prayer directed toward worship.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not turn an imperative prayer into control over God or equate its regathering with an unexamined modern political project.
- The masculine singular imperative addresses God even though the praying voice is plural.
- The form is not a technique for compelling God, a map of modern national borders, or proof that every political gathering fulfills this prayer.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular | first person common plural
Piel
Imp
Not applicable
Not applicable
Not applicable
Not applicable
Waw conjunction
First person common plural
The waw joins this Piel imperative to the preceding appeal for salvation, the masculine singular command addresses God, and the first-person common plural suffix identifies the worshiping community as those to be gathered.
The imperative asks God to reverse dispersion for us and binds regathering to rescue, thanksgiving, and praise.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The community's coordinated cry for God to save, gather, and deliver them from the nations
David's appointed song of thanksgiving, where deliverance leads to thanks for God's holy name and glory in his praise
The imperative asks God to reverse dispersion for us and binds regathering to rescue, thanksgiving, and praise.
The form is not a technique for compelling God, a map of modern national borders, or proof that every political gathering fulfills this prayer.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form places a plural people inside a singular appeal to God and directs regathering toward shared thanksgiving.
The waw joins this Piel imperative to the preceding appeal for salvation, the masculine singular command addresses God, and the first-person common plural suffix identifies the worshiping community as those to be gathered.. The imperative asks God to reverse dispersion for us and binds regathering to rescue, thanksgiving, and praise.. Attached to the community's coordinated cry for God to save, gather, and deliver them from the nations. Governed by David's appointed song of thanksgiving, where deliverance leads to thanks for God's holy name and glory in his praise. The form is not a technique for compelling God, a map of modern national borders, or proof that every political gathering fulfills this prayer.
What purpose governs the prayer gather us in First Chronicles 16:35? The community asks God to rescue and regather them from the nations so they may thank his holy name and glory in his praise.
Direct: Gather communicates the direct appeal to the singular divine addressee, while us renders the attached first-person plural suffix.
The masculine singular imperative addresses God even though the praying voice is plural. The first-person plural suffix includes the worshiping community and should not be privatized.
Conj-w | V-Piel-Imp-ms | 1cp at 1 Chronicles 16:35 treated as the whole interpretation: Do not turn an imperative prayer into control over God or equate its regathering with an unexamined modern political project. gather us used as a slogan for a modern national or political program: Keep "gather" connected to וְקַבְּצֵ֥נוּ, row 5, and the full 1 Chronicles 16:35 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
First Chronicles 16:35 row 5 aligns the waw-linked H6908 imperative with gather us between the appeals to save and deliver.
This row 5 H6908 witness is a corporate worship petition addressed to God, not a declarative regathering promise like Deuteronomy 30:3-4.
The waw joins this Piel imperative to the preceding appeal for salvation, the masculine singular command addresses God, and the first-person common plural suffix identifies the worshiping community as those to be gathered.
First Chronicles 16:35 turns the gathered assembly's worship outward into a corporate plea that God rescue and regather his people so they may praise him together.
The prayer stands in David's liturgical celebration before the ark and echoes Israel's covenant worship; contemporary application should preserve its corporate, doxological direction.
Trace the sequence save us, gather and deliver us, give thanks, and glory in praise so the imperative remains corporate prayer directed toward worship.
Do not turn an imperative prayer into control over God or equate its regathering with an unexamined modern political project.