to gather
episunago is used of bringing people or creatures together, whether as a crowd, a protected brood, or those assembled from distant places.
The attested use consistently concerns people or creatures being brought together or assembled: a city crowd at a door, children gathered as a brood under wings, and elect gathered from the four winds; passive forms also describe crowds, a city, and eagles as assembled.
Senses in use
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Bringing or coming together as an assembled group · dominant
Active forms describe a desired gathering of Jerusalem's children under protective wings in Luke 13:34 and Matthew 23:37, and a future gathering of the elect from the four winds in Mark 13:27 and Matthew 24:31. Passive participles and the future passive describe a crowd that had assembled in Luke 12:1, the whole city assembled at a door in Mark 1:33, and eagles gathered where the body is in Luke 17:37; in these verses the APB renders the relevant clauses with forms of “gathered” or “gather.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB repeatedly presents the relevant clauses with “gather,” “gathered,” or “gathered together,” including crowds, a city, children, elect, and eagles. Because it is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the clauses' assembling context without assigning each English word mechanically to the lemma.