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συνάγω

to gather together

‘to gather together’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓

G4863 Strong's Greek
synágō Transliteration
/soon-ag'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 59 appearances

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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.

At its core, συναγω (synágō) means “to gather together.” It first appears in Matthew 2:4. Spanning 59 verses in 7 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (41% of all occurrences). Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
+ accompany
Modern gloss
to gather together
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G4863 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 →

59
distinct verses
The word appears in 59 distinct verses.
7 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:4
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:4.
Revelation 20:8
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 20:8.
#275
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 275 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 59 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 42 · 71%
  • Acts 11 · 19%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 2%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 5 · 8%

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 59 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 42 verses · 71%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 17 verses · 29%
  • Johannine 12 verses · 20%
  • Revelation 5 verses · 8%
  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 2%

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: Together 7×, Gather 6×, Were gathered together 6×
  • American Standard Version: Were gathered together 8×, Together 7×, Gather 6×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Gather 8×, Gathered 8×, Assembled 4×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Gather 8×, Gathered together 7×, Together 7×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4863 across 73 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Together” 7×
  • “Gather” 6×
  • “Were gathered together” 6×
  • “Came together” 5×
  • “Gathered” 5×
  • “Gathered together” 4×
  • “Assembled together” 2×
  • “Be gathered together” 2×
  • “He that gathereth” 2×
  • “In” 2×
  • “Will” 2×
  • “Ye took” 2×

Plus 28 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 G4863 across 73 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Were gathered together” 8×
  • “Together” 7×
  • “Gather” 6×
  • “Gathered together” 6×
  • “Gathered” 5×
  • “Be gathered together” 3×
  • “Gathering” 2×
  • “He that gathereth” 2×
  • “In” 2×
  • “They gathered” 2×
  • “Was gathered” 2×
  • “Were gathered” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 24 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 G4863 across 59 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Gather” 8×
  • “Gathered” 8×
  • “Assembled” 4×
  • “Gather together” 3×
  • “Assemble them” 2×
  • “Met” 2×
  • “Met together” 2×
  • “They assembled” 2×
  • “They gathered” 2×

Plus 26 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4863 across 68 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Gather” 8×
  • “Gathered together” 7×
  • “Together” 7×
  • “Were gathered together” 6×
  • “Gathering” 4×
  • “Having been gathered together” 3×
  • “Having gathered” 3×
  • “Were gathered” 3×
  • “Gather together with” 2×
  • “Gathered” 2×
  • “Will be gathered” 2×

Plus 21 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 3 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.

  1. to gather together, to gather
  2. to bring together, assemble, collect
  3. into one's home, i.e. to receive hospitably, to entertain

Word origin

Derived from συν (sýn) (G4862) — with.

Part of speech: Verb

From G4862 and G71 ; to lead together that is collect or convene ; specifically to entertain (hospitably): - + accompany assemble (selves together) bestow come together gather (selves together up together) lead into resort take in.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 31 distinct written forms G4863 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
συνήχθησαν synḗchthēsan Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 13:2 8
συνήχθη synḗchthē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 5:21 4
συνάγων synágōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 12:30 3
συνήγαγον synḗgagon Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 22:10 3
συναγαγεῖν synagageîn Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Luke 3:17 3
συνηγμένοι synēgménoi Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 18:20 3
συνάγονται synágontai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Mark 6:30 2
συνάγουσιν synágousin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 6:26 2
συνάξω synáxō Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Luke 12:17 2
συναγάγετε synagágete Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 13:30 2
συναγαγόντες synagagóntes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 14:27 2
συναγαγὼν synagagṑn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 2:4 2
συναχθήσονται synachthḗsontai Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 24:28 2
συναχθῆναι synachthē̂nai Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive Acts 4:5 2
συνηγάγετέ synēgágeté Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 25:35 2
συνηγμένων synēgménōn Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 27:17 2
Συνήγαγον Synḗgagon Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural John 11:47 1
Συνήχθησαν Synḗchthēsan Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 15:6 1
Συνηγμένων Synēgménōn Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 22:41 1
συνάγει synágei Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 4:36 1
συνάγεται synágetai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 4:1 1
συνάγω synágō Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Matthew 25:26 1
συνάξει synáxei Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 3:12 1
συνάχθητε synáchthēte Verb, Aorist, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Revelation 19:17 1
συνήγαγεν synḗgagen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Revelation 16:16 1
συναγάγῃ synagágē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular John 11:52 1
συναγαγούσῃ synagagoúsē Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 13:47 1
συναχθέντες synachthéntes Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 28:12 1
συναχθέντων synachthéntōn Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 1 Corinthians 5:4 1
συνηγάγομεν synēgágomen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Matthew 25:38 1
συνηγμένα synēgména Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Revelation 19:19 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4863, 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

+125 more words share this root (not shown).

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 152 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word συναγω appears 312 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 292 verses in 32 books.

312
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
292
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
32 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 32 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4863) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 292. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4863) 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.

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