Definition

an assemblage of persons; specially, a Jewish "synagogue" (the meeting or the place); by analogy, a Christian church

Etymology

from (the reduplicated form of) G4863 (συνάγω);

Word family

• συνάγω synágō

How the KJV renders it

• assembly
• congregation
• synagogue

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.