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# throng

noun (throngs); verb (throng, throngs, thronged, thronging)

«throng» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A throng is a large crowd of people pressed close together. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throng/#m1)
2. To throng is to crowd round or fill a place. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throng/#m2)

### In the lessons

a crowd gathering at a church, a target or a royal court; people pressing round a person to see or hear

### Examples

- There was such a throng before the church that Trembling could not get in. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throng/#x1)
- The shooters were thronging round the target. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throng/#x2)
- The courtiers will throng round the princess. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throng/#x3)

### Note

a throng is a crowd, not a set number; count the people if a count is needed

## In Jewish tradition

A crowd going to worship at the Temple.

**Interpretation.** The psalmist remembers going up with pilgrims to the festivals in Jerusalem.

### Examples

- We took sweet counsel together, in the house of God we walked with the throng. (Writings PSA.55.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/throng/#x1)
- These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I passed on with the throng, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday. (Writings PSA.42.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/throng/#x2)

### Note

a throng is a crowd, not a set number; count the people if a count is needed

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «throng» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throng/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«throng» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/throng.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «throng» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/throng/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«throng» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/throng.html) on Mova free.