synagō · gather

What it means

synagō (συνάγω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “gather”.

Bring 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 people or things together into one place.
2. To take a stranger into your home.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

To gather, to bring together: to make people or things come to one place; to gather in a harvest; and, with a stranger, to welcome him into the house. It is formed with σύν (‘with’) and ἄγω (‘lead’, G71). Its noun is συναγωγή (‘gathering, synagogue’, G4864).

• Gathering: the crowd, the apostles, the council Matthew 13:2Acts 15:6Matthew 26:3
• “Two or three are gathered in my name” Matthew 18:20
• Gathering the wheat, the pieces Matthew 3:12John 6:12Luke 12:18
• Gathering or scattering Matthew 12:30John 11:52
• Welcoming the stranger Matthew 25:35

How we translate it

“Gathered” 30 times, “gather” 18, “gathering” 5: English “gather” serves both for people coming together and for the harvest or what is left over (“I will gather all my grain”, Luke 12:18; “were gathered together” in Acts 4:26-27, which quotes Psalm 2). “You welcomed me” in Matthew 25:35, where it means receiving into the house.

How it is translated

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

• gathered ×30
• gather ×18
• gathering ×5
• welcome ×2
• are assembled ×1
• gathers ×1
• met together ×1
• you welcomed ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×24
• Mark×5
• Luke×6
• John×7
• Acts×11
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Revelation×5

• Matthew 2:4

  and gathering together all the high priests and scribes of the people, he was asking them where the Messiah is to be born.

• Matthew 3:12

  His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

• Matthew 6:26

  Look at the birds of the sky: they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?

• Matthew 12:30

  The one who is not with me is against me, and the one who does not gather with me scatters.

• Matthew 13:2

  And large crowds gathered around him, so that he got into a boat and sat there; and the whole crowd was standing on the shore.

• Matthew 13:30

  Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the darnel first and tie it in bundles to burn it, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

• Matthew 13:47

  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet thrown into the sea and gathering fish of every kind;

• Matthew 18:20

  For where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am among them.”

• Matthew 22:10

  And those slaves went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both evil and good; and the wedding feast was filled with guests.

• Matthew 22:34

  But the Pharisees, hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered together in the same place.

• Matthew 22:41

  Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,

• Matthew 24:28

  Wherever the carcass is, there the vultures will gather.

• Matthew 25:24

  And the one who had received the one talent also came up and said, ‘Master, I knew you, that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you did not scatter;

• Matthew 25:26

  But his master answered him, ‘Wicked and lazy slave! You knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter?

• Matthew 25:32

  And all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another, just as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;

• Matthew 25:35

  For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you welcomed me;

• Matthew 25:38

  And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?

• Matthew 25:43

  I was a stranger and you did not welcome me; naked, and you did not clothe me; sick and in prison, and you did not visit me.’

• Matthew 26:3

  Then the high priests and the elders of the people gathered in the courtyard of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

• Matthew 26:57

  Those who had seized Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered.

• Matthew 27:17

  So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you, Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Messiah?”

• Matthew 27:27

  Then the soldiers of the governor, taking Jesus into the praetorium, gathered the whole cohort around him.

• Matthew 27:62

  Now on the next day, which is after the Preparation, the high priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate

• Matthew 28:12

  And when they had gathered with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

• Mark 2:2

  And many gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even near the door; and he was speaking the word to them.

• Mark 4:1

  And again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathers around him, so that he got into a boat and sat on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.

• Mark 5:21

  And when Jesus had crossed over again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered around him; and he was beside the sea.

• Mark 6:30

  And the apostles gather around Jesus and reported to him all that they had done and all that they had taught.

• Mark 7:1

  And the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gather around him,

• Luke 3:17

  His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

• Luke 11:23

  Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

• Luke 12:17

  And he was reasoning within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have nowhere to gather my crops?’

• Luke 12:18

  And he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will gather all my grain and my goods.

• Luke 15:13

  And not many days later, the younger son, gathering together everything, went away to a distant country, and there he squandered his estate living recklessly.

• Luke 22:66

  And when day came, the council of elders of the people was gathered together, both high priests and scribes, and they led him away to their council,

• John 4:36

  the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together.

• John 6:12

  And when they were filled, he says to his disciples, “Gather up the pieces left over, so that nothing may be lost.”

• John 6:13

  So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.

• John 11:47

  So the high priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is doing many signs.

• John 11:52

  and not for the nation only, but so that he might also gather into one the children of God who are scattered.

And 19 more times.