episynagō · gather together

What it means

episynagō (ἐπισυνάγω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “gather together”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To bring many who are scattered into one place.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• gather ×4
• gathered together ×2
• gathers ×1
• had gathered ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×2
• Luke×3

• Matthew 23:37

  Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing!

• Matthew 24:31

  And he will send out his angels with a great trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

• Mark 1:33

  And the whole town was gathered together at the door.

• Mark 13:27

  And then he will send out the angels and gather together the chosen from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of heaven.

• Luke 12:1

  Meanwhile, when the crowd had gathered by the thousands, so that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware for yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

• Luke 13:34

  Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children the way a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

• Luke 17:37

  And answering, they say to him, “Where, Lord?” And he said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will be gathered together.”

And 1 more times.