This verb means to heap upon or pile up—to accumulate in large quantities. In 2 Timothy 4:3, Paul warns that people will heap up teachers for themselves according to their own desires, accumulating instructors who tell them what they want to hear. The image is of piling up or amassing a collection. Classical usage included literal heaping of objects and metaphorical accumulation of arguments or authorities. The multilingual evidence shows variation in how translators handle the metaphor: Spanish amontonarán preserves the heaping image, while the context makes clear this is about collecting multiple teachers.