A genuine crux, and one of the more entertaining ones. Parsed as syn + halizomai (from hals, SALT) it means to take salt with someone — to share a meal, and in the ancient Near East to eat a man's salt was to be bound to him. Parsed as syn + alizō, 'to gather', it means simply 'assembling with'. The Vulgate chose the meal (convescens) and Douay follows it; KJV and ASV read 'being assembled together with them'. This translation takes the meal, on the strength of Luke's own habit rather than the etymology — his risen Jesus eats broiled fish, is known in the breaking of bread, and Peter later defines the witnesses as those 'who ate and drank with him after he rose'. → first discussed at Acts 1:4