noun · feminine
sumfōnias
Strong’sG4858
harmony of instruments, music
stem sumfōni-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
συμφωνία, -ας, ἡ
(< σύμφωνος), [in LXX: Da LXX TH 3:5, 15, TH ib. 7, 10 (סוּמפֹּנְיָה) IV Mac 14:3 A *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4858 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsoom-fo-nee'-ah
unison of sound ("symphony"), i.e. a concert of instruments (harmonious note)
Fromfrom G4859;
King Jamesmusic.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
concord or unison of sound, τὴν ἐν τῇ ᾠδῇ ἁρμονίαν, ἢ δὴ σ. καλεῖται Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of two sounds only, musical concord, accord, such as the fourth, fifth, and octave, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ διὰ πασῶν σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; distinguished from mere ὁμοφωνία, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 harmonious union of many voices or sounds, concert, οἱ τῶν σ. λόγοι, the Refs 4th c.BC+ doctrine of the music of the spheres, Refs
II metaphorically, harmony, agreement, Refs 5th c.BC+; μείξας πάντα κατὰ συμφωνίαν, of a cook, Refs 4th c.BC+; unanimily, σ. τῶν ἱστορησάντων Refs 2nd c.AD+ concordance, of theory with observed fact, ἔχειν τοῖς φαινομένοις σ. Refs 4th c.BC+ ={τὸ συμπεφωνημένον} Refs, the amount agreed upon, Refs 1st c.AD+
III band, orchestra, Ἑλληνικά 1.19 Refs 1st c.AD+, and so perhaps in Refs 2nd c.BC+, but used of a musical instrument in LXX; so Latin symphonia, of a kind of drum, Refs 1st c.AD+; symphoniae et cymbala strepitusque, NT+1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | sumfōnias | sumfōniais |
| object accusative | sumfōnian | sumfōniain |
| direct address vocative | sumfōniar | sumfōniair |
| of, belonging to genitive | sumfōniau1×συμφωνίας | sumfōniaiu |
| to, for dative | sumfōnia | sumfōniai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
sumfōnia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
sumfōniau“music”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 15:25… hōs erchorōntos engizata ta oikia, akouata sumfōniau kai choroiu,… he approached the house, he heard music and dancing.