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church),” for
KJV
, “assembled themselves” (possibly “they were hospitably entertained
by”). The verb is not found in the most authentic mss. in Rev. 13:10. See
BESTOW
,
GATHER
,
LEAD
,
TAKE
, No. 29.
: &
, $
, “to gather together,” is found only in the synoptic Gospels; twice of
the “gathering” together of people, Mark 1:33; Luke 12:1; twice of the desire of the Lord
to “gather” together the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Matt. 23:37; Luke 13:34; twice of His
future act in “gathering” together His elect through the instrumentality of the angels,
Matt. 24:31; Mark 13:27. See
GATHER
.¶
2.
$
(
&
, 4871), “to gather together, to assemble,” with the suggestion
of a crowded meeting (
$
, “with,”
, “to crowd, or mass:” the corresponding
adjective is
, “thronged”), is used in Acts 1:4. The meaning “to eat with,” suggested
by some, as if the word were derived from
, “salt,” is not to be accepted.¶
3.
$
(
!$
, 4905), “to come together” (
$
, “together,”
“to come”), is once rendered “assemble,” Mark 14:53,
KJV
. It is frequently used of
“coming together,” especially of the “gathering” of a local church, 1 Cor. 11:17-18, 20,
33-34; 14:23, 26; it is rendered “resorted” in Acts 16:13,
KJV
, where the
RV
adheres to the
lit. rendering, “came together.” See
ACCOMPANY
.
Notes:
(1) In Acts 15:25,
, “to become,” is translated “having come to (one
accord),” correcting the
KJV
, “being assembled with (one accord).”
(2)
-$
, akin to A, No. 1, is, lit., “a place where people assemble.” In Acts
13:43 the
RV
suitably has “synagogue,” for the
KJV
“congregation,” the building standing
by metonymy for the people therein (cf. Matt. 10:17, etc.). In Jas. 2:2 (
KJV
, “assembly”)
the word is “synagogue” (
RV
). See
SYNAGOGUE
.
(3)
, $
, akin to No. 1,
Note
, “an assembling together”, is used in 2 Thess.
2:1, of the rapture of the saints into the air to meet the Lord, “our gathering together”; in
Heb. 10:25, of the “gatherings” of believers on earth during the present period. See
GATHERING
.
ASSEMBLY
1.
(
#
&
, 1577), from , “out of,” and
, “a calling” (
, “to
call”), was used among the Greeks of a body of citizens “gathered” to discuss the affairs
of state, Acts 19:39. In the Sept. it is used to designate the “gathering” of Israel,
summoned for any definite purpose, or a “gathering” regarded as representative of the
whole nation. In Acts 7:38 it is used of Israel; in 19:32, 41, of a riotous mob. It has two
applications to companies of Christians, (a) to the whole company of the redeemed
throughout the present era, the company of which Christ said, “I will build My Church,”
Matt. 16:18, and which is further described as “the Church which is His Body,” Eph.
1:22; 5:23, (b) in the singular number (e.g., Matt. 18:17,
RV
marg., “congregation”), to a
company consisting of professed believers, e.g., Acts 20:28; 1 Cor. 1:2; Gal. 1:13; 1
Thess. 1:1; 2 Thess. 1:1; 1 Tim. 3:5, and in the plural, with reference to churches in a
district.
There is an apparent exception in the
RV
of Acts 9:31, where, while the
KJV
has
“churches,” the singular seems to point to a district; but the reference is clearly to the