συλλέγω
to gather up
‘to gather up’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
3 verses where G4816 appears in the Aorist tense in the Book of Matthew. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew
- Matthew 13:28 συλλέξωμεν aor act subj 1pl "He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'
- Matthew 13:30 συλλέξατε aor act impv 2pl Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"
- Matthew 13:48 συνέλεξαν aor act ind 3pl which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
συλλεγω — transliterated syllégō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to gather up.” More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Matthew. It appears 8 verses across 2 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 7:16. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 8-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4816 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Gospels 8 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Gather 2×
- American Standard Version: Gather 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Are collected 1×, Are grapes gathered 1×, Are not gathered 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Gather 3×, They do 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4816 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4816 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4816 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4816 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to gather up
- to collect in order to carry off
Word origin
Derived from συν (sýn) (G4862) — with.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G4816 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| συλλέγουσιν syllégousin | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 7:16 | 2 |
| συλλέγεται syllégetai | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 13:40 | 1 |
| συλλέγοντες syllégontes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 13:29 | 1 |
| συλλέξατε sylléxate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Matthew 13:30 | 1 |
| συλλέξουσιν sylléxousin | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 13:41 | 1 |
| συλλέξωμεν sylléxōmen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural | Matthew 13:28 | 1 |
| συνέλεξαν synélexan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 13:48 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4816, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- κοινος koinós G2839 common
- συγγενης syngenḗs G4773 related by blood
- συγγνωμη syngnṓmē G4774 pardon
- συγκαθημαι synkáthēmai G4775 to sit together
- συγκαθιζω synkathízō G4776 to sit together
- συγκακοπαθεω synkakopathéō G4777 to suffer together
- συγκακουχεω synkakouchéō G4778 to be ill-treated together
- συγκαλεω synkaléō G4779 to call together
- συγκαλυπτω synkalýptō G4780 to cover completely
- συγκαμπτω synkámptō G4781 to bend together
- συγκαταβαινω synkatabaínō G4782 to go down with
- συγκατατιθεμαι synkatatíthemai G4784 to deposit together
- συγκαταψηφιζω synkatapsēphízō G4785 to vote against
- συγκεραννυμι synkeránnymi G4786 to mix together
- συγκλειω synkleíō G4788 to shut up
- συγκληρονομος synklēronómos G4789 joint heir
- συγκοινωνεω synkoinōnéō G4790 to share together
- συγκοινωνος synkoinōnós G4791 joint partner
- συγκομιζω synkomízō G4792 to collect together
- συγκρινω synkrínō G4793 to join together
- συγκυπτω synkýptō G4794 to bend together
- συγκυρια synkyría G4795 by chance
- συγχαιρω synchaírō G4796 to rejoice with
- συγχεω synchéō G4797 to disturb
+125 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 151 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word συλλεγω appears 38 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 34 verses in 12 books.
- 38
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 34
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 31:46 συνλέγω
- Exodus 5:11 συνλέγω
- Leviticus 19:9 συνλέγω
- Numbers 11:8 συνλέγω
- Deuteronomy 23:25 συνλέγω
- Judges 1:7 συνλέγω
- Ruth 2:3 συνλέγω
- 1 Kings 17:10 συνλέγω
- 2 Kings 4:39 συνλέγω
- Psalms 103:28 συνλέγω
- Song of Solomon 6:2 συνλέγω
- Jeremiah 7:18 συνλέγω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4816) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 31:46 συνλέγω Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
- Exodus 5:11 συνλέγω Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished."
- Exodus 16:4 συνλέγω Then said Yahweh to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
- Exodus 16:16 συνλέγω This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall you take it, every man for those who are in his tent."
- Exodus 16:17 συνλέγω The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.
- Exodus 16:18 συνλέγω When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.
- Exodus 16:21 συνλέγω They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
- Exodus 16:22 συνλέγω It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
- Exodus 16:26 συνλέγω Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."
- Exodus 16:27 συνλέγω It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
- Leviticus 19:9 συνλέγω "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
- Leviticus 19:10 συνλέγω You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.
- Leviticus 23:22 συνλέγω "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.'"
- Numbers 11:8 συνλέγω The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
- Numbers 15:32 συνλέγω While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
- Numbers 15:33 συνλέγω Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.
- Deuteronomy 23:25 συνλέγω When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.
- Judges 1:7 συνλέγω Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
- Ruth 2:3 συνλέγω She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
- Ruth 2:7 συνλέγω She said, Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she stayed a little in the house.
- Ruth 2:8 συνλέγω Then said Boaz to Ruth, Don't you hear, my daughter? Don't go to glean in another field, neither pass from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.
- Ruth 2:15 συνλέγω When she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don't reproach her.
- Ruth 2:16 συνλέγω Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it, and let her glean, and don't rebuke her.
- Ruth 2:17 συνλέγω So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
- Ruth 2:18 συνλέγω She took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth and gave to her that which she had left after she was sufficed.
- Ruth 2:19 συνλέγω Her mother-in-law said to her, Where have you gleaned today? and where have you worked? blessed be he who did take knowledge of you. She shown her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz.
- Ruth 2:23 συνλέγω So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.
- 1 Kings 17:10 συνλέγω So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
- 1 Kings 17:12 συνλέγω She said, As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
- 2 Kings 4:39 συνλέγω One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of stew; for they didn't recognize them.
- Psalms 103:28 συνλέγω
- Psalms 128:7 συνλέγω
- Song of Solomon 6:2 συνλέγω My beloved has gone down to his garden, To the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
- Jeremiah 7:18 συνλέγω The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4816) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
