# kehilot (קְהִלּוֹת)

pronounced: ke-hee-LOT


**Communities or congregations — the plural of kehila**

## In Scripture

> Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with the finger of God On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
> — Deuteronomy 9:10 (Qahal, the biblical root behind kehila, names Israel gathered before God.)

> Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.
> — Deuteronomy 31:30 (Moses addresses the whole qahal of Israel before his death.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/kehilot/