episunagō (to gather)

Meaning

Usually translated “gathered together”, “gathers together” and “gather together”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

to gathered together 1
gathers together 1
they will gather together 1
gathered 1
will gather together 1
when were gathering 1
to gather 1
will be gathered 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Luke 3
Matthew 2
Mark 2

3 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Matthew 24:31And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mark 1:33And all the city was gathered together at the door.
Mark 13:27And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
Luke 12:1In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
Luke 17:37And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

Greek dictionary

ἐπισυνάγω episunagō · to gather

ἐπι-συν-άγω [in LXX for אָסַף, קָבַץ, etc. (Cremer, 65) ;] 1. to gather together: Mat.23:37 24:31, Mrk.13:27, Luk.13:34; pass., Mrk.1:33, Luk.12:1 17:37, (cf. Psa.102:23 106:47, 2Ma.1:27, al.). 2. to gather together against (Mic.4:11, Zec.12:3, 1Ma.3:58, al.).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “gather” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

GATH'ER, verb transitive

To bring together; to collect a number of separate things into one place or into one aggregate body.“Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap” Genesis 31:46
To get in harvest; to reap or cut and bring into barns or stores. Leviticus 25:20
To pick up; to glean; to get in small parcels and bring together.“Gather out the stones” Isaiah 62:10
To pluck; to collect by cropping, picking or plucking.“Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” Matthew 7:16

All definitions and other forms of “gather”

To assemble; to congregate; to bring persons into one place. Ezekiel 22:19
To collect in abundance; to accumulate; to amass.“I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings” Ecclesiastes 2:8
To select and take; to separate from others and bring together.“Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen” Psalms 106:47
To sweep together.“The kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind” Matthew 13:47
To bring into one body or interest.“Yet will I gather others to him” Isaiah 56:8
To draw together from a state of expansion or diffusion; to contract.
To gain.
To pucker; to plait.
To deduce by inference; to collect or learn by reasoning.“After he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them” Acts 16:10
To coil as a serpent.

GATH'ER, verb intransitive

To collect; to unite; to increase; to be condensed. The clouds gather in the west.

To increase; to grow larger by accretion of like matter.
To assemble.
To generate pus or matter. [See Gathering.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.