What Does Revelation 16:16 Mean in the King James?
And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
“Gathered together” contains ἄγω (agō, “to bring”), framing Armageddon as the destination of a convergence.
THE MEANING
The verse places you before a convergence: they are brought into one place, named Armageddon. The gatherer remains unnamed in the sentence, while the gathering and its destination are explicit. The Hebrew name is preserved without a gloss here, leaving its weight inside the scene.
THE ROOT
συνήγαγεν
synēgagen
GROWS FROM
ἄγω
agō: to lead, bring.
The verb in this verse is συνήγαγεν (synēgagen, “he gathered together”), a form of συνάγω (synagō, “gather together”); the compound joins συν- (syn-, “together”) to ἄγω (agō, “bring, lead”). The action is framed as bringing forces into convergence, while Armageddon names their destination.
ALSO GROWS
synagōgē: gathering, assembly
συναγωγή
This word preserves the same bring-and-lead stem and names a group brought together.
agōgē: leading, conduct
ἀγωγή
It carries the same stem, making the motion of leading visible within the gathering verb.
καλούμενον
kaloumenon
GROWS FROM
καλέω
kaléō: to call, summon, name.
The place is described as “being called” by a name, while the verse gives only its Hebrew form and no gloss. Naming remains part of the scene, while the name’s meaning stays unexplained here.
ALSO GROWS
klēsis: calling, summons
κλῆσις
This noun belongs to the same call-family, making the act behind “called” visible as a summons.
ekklēsia: assembly
ἐκκλησία
This recognized member of the call-family extends the connection from calling to an assembly.
THE PATTERN
Scattered powers become a visible confrontation when they are gathered toward one place.
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.THE THREAD
And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.The Greek verb here and the verb rendered “gather together” in John 11:52 both grow from συνάγω (synagō, “gather together”). John uses that same verb for scattered children of God gathered “in one,” showing that the verb names convergence while the surrounding words reveal what is being gathered and where.
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