קְהִלָּה, (b. h.) same. Y. Ber. VII, 11ᶜ top במקהלות כל ק׳ וק׳ ‘in assemblies praise God’ (Ps. LXVIII, 27), in every kind of assemblies (use a different phraseology for the appeal to praise God, according to the size of the assembly). Meg. 2ᵃ י"ג זמן ק׳ וכ׳ the thirteenth of Adar was the date of gathering all Jews (Esth. IX, 18). Lev. R. s. 9 (ref. to Deut. XXXIII, 4) מורשה קְהִלַּת ינאי אין וכ׳ it is not written here, ‘an inheritance of the congregation of Yannai’ (privileged scholars), but of the congregation of Jacob (v. יְרוּתָּא); a. e.—Pl. קְהִלּוֹת, קְהִי׳. Y. Yeb. VIII, 9ᵇ bot., v. קָהָל. Ab. Zar. 18ᵃ, a. e., v. קָהַל; a. fr.