The Greek noun desmē means 'a bundle' or 'sheaf' — a collection of things bound together. It appears in Jesus' parable of the weeds (tares) where the weeds are bundled together for burning at the final judgment.
Jesus' use of desmē in the parable of the weeds (Matthew 13:30) is theologically precise: the angels do not destroy the weeds individually but bundle them together first. This bundling imagery suggests that the ungodly will be gathered in their collective nature — the 'bundles' perhaps representing groups, networks, or kingdoms aligned against God. The contrast with the wheat being brought into the barn (individual reception into God's presence) reinforces the different eternal destinies of the righteous and the wicked.