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Strong's G4816 συλλέγω (syllego)

Syllego means “collect” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4816 — morek (“faintness”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4816
Language Greek
Linked Usages 45
Books 16

Strong's G4816 Quick Answer

Strong's G4816 συλλέγω (sullego) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sullego (sool-leg'-o) v. 1. to collect [from G4862 and G3004 in its original sense] It has 45 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include gather and gathered. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
sullego (sool-leg'-o) v. 1. to collect [from G4862 and G3004 in its original sense]
Usage
45 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
gather and gathered

Meaning and Definition

sullego (sool-leg'-o) v. 1. to collect [from G4862 and G3004 in its original sense] KJV: gather (together, up) Root(s): G4862, G3004

Original Word
συλλέγω
Transliteration
sullego
Derivation
Root: λέγω R1: 4862 R2: 3004
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4816. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to collect

Usage: συλ-λέγω [in LXX chiefly for לָקַט ;] to bring together, collect, gather up: with accusative of thing(s), Mat.13:28-30; pass., Mat.13:40; with accusative, before ἀπό, Mat.7:16; id. before ἐκ, Mat.13:41, Luk.6:44; before εἰς, Mat.13:48.† (AS)

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How Strong's G4816 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sullego, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

gather Matthew 7:16 gathered Matthew 13:40

How Strong's G4816 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 34 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4816 (συλλέγω) appears 41 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4816 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G4816 in the New Testament

8 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 7:16 KJV

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Matthew 13:28 KJV

He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

Matthew 13:29 KJV

But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

Strong's G4816 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

34 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 31:46 Septuagint / Brenton

And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they gathered stones and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap; and Laban said to him, This heap witnesses between me and thee today.

Exodus 5:11 Septuagint / Brenton

Go ye, yourselves, get for yourselves straw whencesoever ye can find it, for nothing is diminished from your rate.

Exodus 16:4 Septuagint / Brenton

And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread upon you out of heaven: and the people shall go forth, and they shall gather their daily portion for the day, that I may try them whether they will walk in my law or not.

Strong's G4816 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 3:10 Septuagint / Brenton

And he pitched between Geba and Scythopolis, and there he tarried a whole month, that he might gather together all the carriages of his army.

Judith 4:3 Septuagint / Brenton

for they were newly returned from the captivity, and all the people of Judea were lately gathered together: and the vessels, and the altar, and the house, were sanctified after the profanation.

3 Maccabees 1:21 Septuagint / Brenton

Various were the prayers offered up by those who assembled in this place, on account of the unholy attempt of the king.

Usage Excerpts

First 45 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4816.

Genesis 31:46 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they gathered stones and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap; and Laban said to him, This heap witnesses between me and thee today.
Exodus 5:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Go ye, yourselves, get for yourselves straw whencesoever ye can find it, for nothing is diminished from your rate.
Exodus 16:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread upon you out of heaven: and the people shall go forth, and they shall gather their daily portion for the day, that I may try them whether they will walk in my law or not.
Exodus 16:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. This is that which the Lord has appointed: gather of it each man for his family, an omer for each person, according to the number of your souls, gather each of you with his fellow lodgers.
Exodus 16:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some much and some less.
Exodus 16:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And having measured the omer full, he that had gathered much had nothing over, and he that had gathered less had no lack; each gathered according to the need of those who belonged to him.
Exodus 16:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they gathered it every morning, each man what he needed, and when the sun waxed hot it melted.
Exodus 16:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass on the sixth day, they gathered double what was needed, two omers for one man; and all the chiefs of the synagogue went in and reported it to Moses.
Exodus 16:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Six days ye shall gather it, and on the seventh day is a Sabbath, for there shall be none on that day.
Exodus 16:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass on the seventh day that some of the people went forth to gather, and found none.
Leviticus 19:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, ye shall not complete the reaping of your field with exactness, and thou shalt not gather that which falls from thy reaping.
Leviticus 19:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt not go over the gathering of thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the remaining grapes of thy vineyard: thou shalt leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 23:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when ye shall reap the harvest of your land, ye shall not fully reap the remainder of the harvest of your field when thou reapest, and thou shalt not gather that which falls from thy reaping; thou shalt leave it for the poor and the stranger: I am the Lord your God.
Numbers 11:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people went through the field, and gathered, and ground it in the mill, or pounded it in a mortar, and baked it in a pan, and made cakes of it; and the sweetness of it was as the taste of wafer made with oil.
Numbers 15:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
Numbers 15:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they who found him gathering sticks on the Sabbath day brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 23:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thou shouldest go into the corn field of thy neighbor, then thou mayest gather the ears with thy hands; but thou shalt not put the sickle to thy neighbor’s corn.
Judges 1:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I therefore have done, so God has recompensed me: and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Ruth 2:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she went; and came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers; and she happened by chance to come on a portion of the land of Boaz, of the kindred of Elimelech.
Ruth 2:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers: and she came and stood from morning till evening, and rested not even a little in the field.
Ruth 2:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Boaz said to Ruth, Hast thou not heard, my daughter? go not to glean in another field; and depart not thou hence, join thyself here with my damsels.
Ruth 2:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she rose up to glean; and Boaz charged his young men, saying, Let her even glean among the sheaves, and reproach her not.
Ruth 2:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And do ye by all means carry it for her, and ye shall surely let fall for her some of that which is heaped up; and let her eat, and glean, and rebuke her not.
Ruth 2:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So she gleaned in the field till evening, and beat out that she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
Ruth 2:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned, and Ruth brought forth and gave to her the food which she had left from what she had been satisfied with.
Ruth 2:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And her mother-in-law said to her, Where hast thou gleaned today, and where hast thou wrought? blessed be he that took notice of thee. And Ruth told her mother-in-law where she had wrought, and said, The name of the man with whom I wrought today is Boaz.
Ruth 2:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Ruth joined herself to the damsels of Boaz to glean until they had finished the barley harvest and the wheat harvest.
3 Kingdoms 17:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he arose and went to Zarephath, and came to the gate of the city: and, behold, a widow woman was there gathering sticks; and Elijah cried after her, and said to her, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
3 Kingdoms 17:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the woman said, As the Lord thy God lives, I have not a cake, but only a handful of meal in the pitcher, and a little oil in a cruse, and, behold, I am going to gather two sticks, and I shall go in and dress it for myself and my children, and we shall eat it and die.
4 Kingdoms 4:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a vine in the field, and gathered of it wild gourds, his garment full; and he cast it into the caldron of pottage, for they knew them not.
Psalms 103:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When thou hast given it them, they will gather it; And when thou hast opened thy hand, they shall all be filled with good.
Psalms 128:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherewith the reaper fills not his hand, Nor he that makes up the sheaves, his bosom.
Song of Solomon 6:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My kinsman is gone down to his garden, to the beds of spice, To feed his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Jeremiah 7:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Their children gather wood, and their fathers kindle a fire, and their women knead dough, to make cakes to the host of heaven; and they have poured out drink offerings to strange gods, that they might provoke me to anger.
Matthew 7:16 New Testament, KJV
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Matthew 13:28 New Testament, KJV
He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
Matthew 13:29 New Testament, KJV
But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Matthew 13:30 New Testament, KJV
Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Matthew 13:40 New Testament, KJV
As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
Matthew 13:41 New Testament, KJV
The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
Matthew 13:48 New Testament, KJV
Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
Luke 6:44 New Testament, KJV
For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
Judith 3:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And he pitched between Geba and Scythopolis, and there he tarried a whole month, that he might gather together all the carriages of his army.
Judith 4:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
for they were newly returned from the captivity, and all the people of Judea were lately gathered together: and the vessels, and the altar, and the house, were sanctified after the profanation.
3 Maccabees 1:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Various were the prayers offered up by those who assembled in this place, on account of the unholy attempt of the king.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4816, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ruth 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 7 usages, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G4816 FAQ

What does syllego (συλλέγω) mean?

Syllego (Strong's G4816) is a Greek word most simply glossed "collect". sullego (sool-leg'-o) v. 1. to collect [from G4862 and G3004 in its original sense]

How many times is syllego (συλλέγω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 45 linked usages for Strong's G4816 across 16 books.

Where can I study syllego (συλλέγω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4816 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate syllego (συλλέγω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as gather and gathered. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G4816 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 34 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4816, with linked reader references where each row is available.