Assemble

"to assemble" (sun, "together," ago, "to bring"), is used of the "gathering together" of people or things; in Luke 12:17,18 , "bestow," with reference to the act of "gathering" one's goods; so in Luke 15:13 , suggesting that the Prodigal, having "gathered" all his goods together, sold them off; in John 6:12 , of "gathering up" fragments; in John 18:2 , "resorted," with reference to the "assembling" of Christ with His disciples in the garden of Gethsemane, there in the Passive Voice (unsuitable, however, in an English translation). In Acts 11:26 , the RV has "were gathered together (with the church)," for AV, "assembled themselves" (possibly "they were hospitably entertained by"). The verb is not found in the most authentic mss. in Revelation 13:10 . See BESTOW , GATHER , LEAD , TAKE , No. 29.

"to gather together, to assemble," with the suggestion of a crowded meeting (sun, "with," halizo, "to crowd, or mass:" the corresponding adjective is hales, "thronged"), is used in Acts 1:4 . The meaning "to eat with," suggested by some, as if the word were derived from hals, "salt," is not to be accepted.

"to come together" (sun, "together," erchomai, "to come"), is once rendered "assemble," Mark 14:53 , AV. It is frequently used of "coming together," especially of the "gathering" of a local church, 1—Corinthians 11:17,18,20,33,34; 14:23,26; it is rendered "resorted" in Acts 16:13 , AV, where the RV adheres to the lit. rendering, "came together." See ACCOMPANY.