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To gather

ἀθροίζωStrong’s G6003

athroizō

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Athroizō is the Greek word usually translated “gathered”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,”
Luke 24:33 KJV
Meaning

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

How it's translated
  • gathered 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    ἀθροίζω athroizō · to gather

    ἀθροίζω (ἀθρόος, assembled in crowds, MM, VGT, see word; θρόος, a noise, tumult), [in LXX chiefly for קבץ ;] to gather, assemble: Luk.24:33.† (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.