This noun describes a thick crowd or throng of people pressed together. The psalmist recalls better days: 'I used to pass along in the throng,' processing toward the temple amid the joyful festival multitude. The term suggests an interwoven mass, people so tightly packed they form a single moving entity. Some versions translate 'booth' or 'shelter,' but the context of festival pilgrimage favors the sense of a great crowd. The memory of communal worship intensifies the psalmist's current isolation and longing.