noun · feminine
sunchusias
Strong’sG4799
confusion, disturbance
stem sunchusi-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.
σύγχυσις, -εως, ἡ
(< συγχέω), [in LXX: Ge 11:9 (בָּבֶל), I Ki 5:6, 12 (11) 14:20 (מְהוּמָה) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4799 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsoong'-khoo-sis
commixture, i.e. (figuratively) riotous disturbance
Fromfrom G4797;
King Jamesconfusion.
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
(συγχέω) mixture, confusion, confounding, ἡ τῶν ἄλλων (variant{ὅλων}) σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; of Babel, LXX+2nd c.BC+; σ. λαβεῖν to be commingled, Refs 1st c.AD+ ς. litterularum, Refs 1st c.BC+; political confusion, σ. τῆς πολιτείαςRefs 2nd c.BC+
b formation of a compound, Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 confusion, ruin, βίου, δόμων, Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. θανάτου μεγάλη 'indiscriminate mortality' LXX+4th c.BC+
3 Grammars, of composition, confusion, indistinctness, Refs 2nd c.AD+; opposed to εὐκρίνεια, Refs 2nd c.AD+
4 an injury to the eye, syncopated hysis, Refs 1st c.AD+
II of persons, confusion, Refs 2nd c.AD+; σ. ἔχοντες confounded, Refs 5th c.BC+
III of contracts and the like, violation, τῶν σπονδῶν Refs 5th c.BC+; τὴν τῶν ὅρκων καὶ σπονδῶν σ. Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 confusion, NT+2nd c.BC+
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 | sunchusias | sunchusiais |
| object accusative | sunchusian | sunchusiain |
| direct address vocative | sunchusiar | sunchusiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | sunchusiau1×συγχύσεως | sunchusiaiu |
| to, for dative | sunchusia | sunchusiai |
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
sunchusia 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
sunchusiau“confusion”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 19:29“confusion”kai pimplēita tas polas tau sunchusiau, hormala tē homothumadōs eis tem theatrem …Soon the whole city was in disarray. They rushed together into the theatre, dragging …