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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