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Lexicon :: Strong's G4912 - synechō

Aa
συνέχω
Transliteration
synechō (Key)
Pronunciation
soon-ekh'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:877,1117

Strong’s Definitions

συνέχω synéchō, soon-ekh'-o; from G4862 and G2192; to hold together, i.e. to compress (the ears, with a crowd or siege) or arrest (a prisoner); figuratively, to compel, perplex, afflict, preoccupy:—constrain, hold, keep in, press, lie sick of, stop, be in a strait, straiten, be taken with, throng.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's G4912 in the following manner: be taken with (3x), throng (1x), straiten (1x), keep in (1x), hold (1x), stop (1x), press (1x), lie sick of (1x), constrain (1x), be in a strait (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's G4912 in the following manner: be taken with (3x), throng (1x), straiten (1x), keep in (1x), hold (1x), stop (1x), press (1x), lie sick of (1x), constrain (1x), be in a strait (1x).

  1. to hold together

    1. any whole, lest it fall to pieces or something fall away from it

  2. to hold together with constraint, to compress

    1. to press together with the hand

      1. to hold one's ears, to shut the heavens that it may not rain

    2. to press on every side

      1. of a besieged city

      2. of a strait, that forces a ship into a narrow channel

      3. of a cattle squeeze, that pushing in on each side, forcing the beast into a position where it cannot move so the farmer can administer medication

  3. to hold completely

    1. to hold fast

      1. of a prisoner

    2. metaph.

      1. to be held by, closely occupied with any business

      2. in teaching the word

      3. to constrain, oppress, of ills laying hold of one and distressing him

      4. to be held with, afflicted with, suffering from

      5. to urge, impel

        1. of the soul

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
συνέχω synéchō, soon-ekh'-o; from G4862 and G2192; to hold together, i.e. to compress (the ears, with a crowd or siege) or arrest (a prisoner); figuratively, to compel, perplex, afflict, preoccupy:—constrain, hold, keep in, press, lie sick of, stop, be in a strait, straiten, be taken with, throng.
STRONGS G4912:
συνέχω; future συνεξω; 2 aorist συνέσχον; passive present συνέχομαι; imperfect συνειχομην; from Homer down;
1. to hold together; any whole, lest it fall to pieces or something fall away from it: τό συνέχον τά πάντα, the deity as holding all things together, Wis. 1:7 (see Grimm at the passage).
2. to hold together with constraint, to compress, i. e.,
a. to press together with the hand: τά ὦτα, to stop the ears, Acts 7:57 (τό στόμα, Isaiah 52:15; τόν οὐρανόν, to shut, that it may not rain, Deuteronomy 11:17; 1 Kings 8:35).
b. to press on every side: τινα, Luke 8:45; with πάντοθεν added, of a besieged city, Luke 19:43.
3. to hold completely, i. e.
α. to hold fast : properly, a prisoner, Luke 22:63 (τά αἰχμάλωτα, Lucian, Tox. 39); metaphorically, in the passive, to be held by, closely occupied with, any business (Wis. 17:19 (20); Herodian, 1, 17, 22 (9 edition, Bekker); Aelian v. h. 14, 22): τῷ λόγῳ, in teaching the word, Acts 18:5 G L T Tr WH (here R. V. constrained by).
β. to constrain, oppress, of ills laying hold of one and distressing him; passive, to be holden with equivalent to afflicted with, suffering from": νόσοις, Matthew 4:24; πυρετῷ, Luke 4:38; δυσεντερίῳ, Acts 28:8 (many examples from Greek writings from Aeschylus and Herodotus down are given in Passow, under the word συνέχω, I. a.; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, I. 4)); of affections of the mind: φόβῳ, Luke 8:37 (ὀδύρμω, Aelian v. h. 14, 22; ἀλγηδονι, Plutarch, de fluv. 2, 1; ἀθυμία, ibid. 7, 5; 19, 1; λύπη, 17, 3; for other examples see Grimm on Wis. 17:10).
γ. to urge, impel: tropically, the soul, ἡ ἀγάπη... συνέχει ἡμᾶς, 2 Corinthians 5:14 (A. V. constraineth); πῶς (how greatly, how sorely) συνέχομαι, Luke 12:50 (A. V. straitened); τῷ πνεύματι, Acts 18:5 Rec. συνέχομαι ἐκ τῶν δύο, I am hard pressed on both sides, my mind is impelled or disturbed from each side (R. V. I am in a strait betwixt the two), Philippians 1:23.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
11:17
1 Kings
8:35
Isaiah
52:15
Matthew
4:24
Luke
4:38; 8:37; 8:45; 12:50; 19:43; 22:63
Acts
7:57; 18:5; 18:5; 28:8
2 Corinthians
5:14
Philippians
1:23

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4912 matches the Greek συνέχω (synechō),
which occurs 41 times in 41 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:2 - the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:3 - Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:7 - It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined to the two ends thereof, that it may be joined together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:4 - They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together; at the two ends was it joined together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:21 - And they did bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - and the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah giveth you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:6 - And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armor, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that Jehovah will work for us; for there is no restraint to Jehovah to save by many or by few.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:7 - Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Jehovah; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chiefest of the herdsmen that belonged to Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:8 - And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3 - And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and provided them with sustenance, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:21 - And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar unto Jehovah, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:25 - And David built there an altar unto Jehovah, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings. So Jehovah was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:10 - And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:15 - And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house unto the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:35 - When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:21 - Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will utterly sweep thee away and will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:8 - For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:26 - For Jehovah saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:1 - Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:26 - When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13 - If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10 - And I went unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:9 - Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:24 -
For my sighing cometh before I eat,
And my groanings are poured out like water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:11 -
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth;
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:1 -
My soul is weary of my life;
I will give free course to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:13 -
Though he spare it, and will not let it go,
But keep it still within his mouth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:23

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For calamity from God is a terror to me,
And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.

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If he set his heart upon himself,
If he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:8 -
And if they be bound in fetters,
And be taken in the cords of affliction;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:2 -
Who is this that darkeneth counsel
By words without knowledge?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:17 -
They are joined one to another;
They stick together, so that they cannot be sundered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15 -
Let not the waterflood overwhelm me,
Neither let the deep swallow me up;
And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

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Hath God forgotten to be gracious?
Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
[Selah

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For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,
And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:15 - so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they understand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:13 - For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:9 - Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of his holy words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:22 - Now the hand of Jehovah had been upon me in the evening, before he that was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:8 - in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door-post beside my door-post, and there was but the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:18 - Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in lovingkindness.
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