noun · feminine
sunētheias
Strong’sG4914
a custom, habit
stem sunēthei-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 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.
** συνήθεια, -ας, ἡ
(< ἦθος), [in LXX: IV Mac 2:12 6:13 13:22, 27 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4914 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
habitual intercourse, acquaintance, intimacy, αἱ πρὸς ἀλλήλους σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ πολιτικὴ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; καὶ αὐτῷ δέ μοί εἰσι σ. Refs 3rd c.BC+; ὢν ἡμῖν ἐν συνηθείᾳ Refs 3rd c.BC+
b sexual intercourse, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of animals, herding together, Refs 4th c.BC+; νέμεσθαι κατὰ συνηθείας in herds,Refs 2nd c.AD+; so of soldiers, κατὰ συνηθείας in messes, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II habit, custom, Refs 5th c.BC+; plural, φαῦλαι σ. bad habits, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν τοῖς ἤθεσι τοῖς τῆς ἑαυτοῦ συνηθείας in his own accustomed haunts, Refs; ἡ σ. τοῦ ἔργου habituation to it, Refs 5th c.BC+; τῇ σ. τοῦ εἰδώλου by being used to it, NT; practice, Refs 5th c.BC+; διὰ τὴν σ. Refs 4th c.BC+; κατὰ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. ἔχειν τῇ πολιτείᾳ to be used to it, practised in it, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.2 the customary usage of language, ἐκ σ. ῥημάτων καὶ ὀνομάτων Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰς συνήθειαν ἐποίησε τοῦ λόγου τούτου τὴν πόλιν καταστῆναι brought the city to habitual use of this phrase, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ σ. τῶν Ἑλλήνων, αἱ κατὰ τὰς διαλέκτους σ., Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν τῇ τεχνικῇ καὶ μὴ εἰκαίᾳ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+: absolutely, ordinary language, ἐν τῇ σ. Refs 1st c.AD+; κατὰ τὴν σ. Refs 4th c.BC+
III customary gratuity, Refs 3rd c.AD+: plural, perquisites, Refs 4th 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 | sunētheias1×συνήθεια | sunētheiais |
| object accusative | sunētheian1×συνήθειαν | sunētheiain |
| direct address vocative | sunētheiar | sunētheiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | sunētheiau | sunētheiaiu |
| to, for dative | sunētheia1×συνηθείᾳ | sunētheiai |
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
sunētheia 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
sunētheias“custom”subjectnominative singular1×
John 18:39atō de sunētheias vi hina henon apoluameia vi en …But it is your custom that I release to you one …
sunētheian“custom”objectaccusative singular1×
1 Corinthians 11:16“custom”… tinos dokatō filoneikos arō, nis toioutan sunētheian ouk echanō, oude tais ekklēsais tou …If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.
sunētheia“accustomed”to, fordative singular1×
1 Corinthians 8:7… pantoi tas gnōsias; tinois de ta sunētheia heōs arti teu eidōleu hōs eidōlothutem …… knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such …