Strong's Lexicon
G4920 — συνίημι
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G4920 |
|---|---|
| Word: | συνίημι |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from G4862 and hiemi "to send" |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 26 |
| Transliteration: | suniemi |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | soon-ee'-ay-mee |
| Meaning: | 1. to put together 2. (mentally) to comprehend 3. (by implication) to act piously |
| KJV Renderings: | consider, understand, be wise |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
συνιέω, see συνίημι.
STRONGS NT 4920: συνίημισυνίημι, 2 person plural συνίετε, 3 person plural συνιοῦσιν (Mat 13:13 R G T; 2Co 10:12 Rec., from the unused form συνιέω), and συνιᾶσιν (2Co 10:12 L T Tr WH), and συνιοῦσιν (Mat 13:13 L Tr WH from the unused (συνιω), subjunctive 3 person plural συνιῶσι (R G L T Tr in Mar 4:12 and Luk 8:10, from the unused συνιέω or from συνίημι) and συνιῶσι (WH in Mark and Luke the passages cited, from the unused συνιω), imperative 2 person plural συνίετε, infinitive συνιέναι, participle συνίων (Rom 3:11 R G T from συιέω), and συνίων (Rom 3:11 L Tr WH, and often in the Sept., from συνιω), and συνίεις (Mat 13:23 L T Tr WH; Eph 5:17 R G; but quite erroneously συνίων, Griesbach in Matthew, the passage cited (Alford on Rom 3:11; cf. WHs Appendix, p. 167; Tdf. Proleg., p. 122); Winers Grammar, 81 (77f); Buttmann, 48 (42); Fritzsche on Rom. vol. i., p. 174f); future συνήσω (Rom 15:21); 1 aorist συνῆκα; 2 aorist subjunctive συνῆτε, συνῶσι, imperative 2 person plural σύνετε (Mar 7:14 L T Tr WH); (σύν, and ἵημι to send);
1. properly, to set or bring together, in a hostile sense, of combatants, Homer, Iliad 1, 8; 7, 210.
2. to put (as it were) the perception with the thing perceived; to set or join together in the mind, i. e. to understand (so from Homer down; the Sept. for áÄÌéï and äÄùÀÒëÄÌéì): with an accusative of the thing, Mat 13:23; Mat 13:51; Luk 2:50; Luk 18:34; Luk 24:45; followed by ὅτι, Mat 16:12; Mat 17:13; followed by an indirect question, Eph 5:17; ἐπί τοῖς ἄρτοις, ’on the loaves’ as the basis of their reasoning (see ἐπί, B. 2 a. α.), Mar 6:52; where what is understood is evident from the preceding context, Mat 13:19; Mat 15:10; Mar 7:14; absolutely, Mat 13:13-15; Mat 15:10; Mar 4:12; Mar 8:17; Mar 8:21; Luk 8:10; Act 7:25; Act 28:26; Rom 15:21; 2Co 10:12; ὁ συνίων or συνίων as a substantive, (Buttmann, 295 (253f); Winers Grammar, 109 (104)), the man of understanding, Hebraistically equivalent to a good and upright-man (as having knowledge of those things which pertain to salvation; see μωρός): Rom 3:11 (from Psa 13:2 ()). (Synonym: see γινώσκω, at the end.)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
συνίημι (consider)
Matthew 13:13
- KJV: Therefore speak I to them in parables because they seeing see not and hearing they hear not neither do they understand
- GK: διά τούτο εν παραβολαίς αυτοίς λαλώ ότι βλέποντες ου βλέπουσιν και ακούοντες ουκ ακούουσιν ουδέ συνιούσιν
Matthew 13:14
- KJV: And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias which saith By hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive
- GK: και αναπληρούται επ΄ αυτοίς η προφητεία Ησαϊου η λέγουσα ακοή ακούσετε και ου συνήτε και βλέποντες βλέψετε και ου ίδητε
Matthew 13:15
- KJV: For this people’s heart is waxed gross and ears are dull of hearing and their eyes they have closed lest at any time they should see with eyes and hear with ears and should understand with heart and should be converted and I should heal them
- GK: επαχύνθη γαρ η καρδία του λαού τούτου και τοις ωσί βαρέως ήκουσαν και τους οφθαλμούς αυτών εκάμμυσαν μήποτε ίδωσι τοις οφθαλμοίς και τοις ωσίν ακούσωσιν και τη καρδία συνώσι και επιστρέψωσι και ιάσομαι αυτούς
Matthew 13:19
- KJV: When any one heareth the word of the kingdom and understandeth not then cometh the wicked and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart This is he which received seed by the way side
- GK: παντός ακούοντος τον λόγον της βασιλείας και μη συνιέντος έρχεται ο πονηρός και αρπάζει το εσπαρμένον εν τη καρδία αυτού ούτός εστιν ο παρά την οδόν σπαρείς
Matthew 13:23
- KJV: But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word and understandeth which also beareth fruit and bringeth forth some an hundredfold some sixty some thirty
- GK: ο δε επί την γην την καλήν σπαρείς ούτός εστιν ο τον λόγον ακούων και συνιών ος δη καρποφορεί και ποιεί ο μεν εκατόν ο δε εξήκοντα ο δε τριάκοντα
Matthew 13:51
- KJV: Jesus saith unto them Have ye understood all these things They say unto him Yea Lord
- GK: λέγει αυτοίς ο Ιησούς συνήκατε ταύτα πάντα λέγουσιν αυτώ ναι κύριε
Matthew 15:10
- KJV: And he called the multitude and said unto them Hear and understand
- GK: και προσκαλεσάμενος τον όχλον είπεν αυτοίς ακούετε και συνίετε
Matthew 16:12
- KJV: Then understood they how that he bade not beware of the leaven of bread but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees
- GK: τότε συνήκαν ότι ουκ είπε προσέχειν από της ζύμης του άρτου αλλ΄ από της διδαχής των Φαρισαίων και Σαδδουκαίων
Matthew 17:13
- KJV: Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist
- GK: τότε συνήκαν οι μαθηταί ότι περί Ιωάννου του βαπτιστού είπεν αυτοίς
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