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To gather

συστρέφωStrong’s G4962

sustrephō

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Sustrephō is the Greek word usually translated “when are abiding” and “when having gathered”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:”
Matthew 17:22 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “when are abiding” and “when having gathered”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • when are abiding 1
  • when having gathered 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Matthew 1
  • Acts 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

συστρέφω sustrephō · to gather

συ-στέφω [in LXX chiefly for קָשַׁר ;] 1. to twist together: with accusative of thing(s), Act.28:3. 2. Pass., of persons, to gather themselves together: Mat.17:22 (WH, R, mg.).† (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

  1. 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
  2. To get in harvest; to reap or cut and bring into barns or stores. Leviticus 25:20
  3. To pick up; to glean; to get in small parcels and bring together.“Gather out the stones” Isaiah 62:10
  4. 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”
  1. To assemble; to congregate; to bring persons into one place. Ezekiel 22:19
  2. To collect in abundance; to accumulate; to amass.“I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings” Ecclesiastes 2:8
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. To bring into one body or interest.“Yet will I gather others to him” Isaiah 56:8
  6. To draw together from a state of expansion or diffusion; to contract.
  7. To gain.
  8. To pucker; to plait.
  9. 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
  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.

  1. To increase; to grow larger by accretion of like matter.
  2. To assemble.
  3. 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.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.