To throng
רְגַשׁStrong’s H7284regash (re-gash)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Regash is the Aramaic word usually translated “came as a crowd”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.”
Meaning
- To be in tumult(Aphel) to gather in a tumultuous throng, show tumultuousness, come thronging
How it's translated
- they came as a crowd 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 6:11In contextThen these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
- Daniel 6:15In contextThen these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.
Aramaic dictionary
רְגַשׁ regash · to throng
1) to be in tumult 1a) (Aphel) to gather in a tumultuous throng, show tumultuousness, come thronging
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “throng” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THRONG, noun
- A crowd; a multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; as a throng of people at a play-house.
- A great multitude; as the heavenly throng
All definitions and other forms of “throng”
THRONG, verb intransitive
To crowd together; to press into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to come in multitudes.
THRONG, verb transitive
To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
- “Much people followed him, and thronged him” Mark 5:24
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.