adjective
sunetos
Strong’sG4908
intelligent, prudent, wise
stem sunet-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 26 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.
συνετός, ή, -όν
(< συνίημι), [in LXX for נָבוֺן, חָכָם, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4908 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsoon-et'-os
mentally put (or putting) together, i.e. sagacious
Fromfrom G4920;
King Jamesprudent.
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
(συνίημι) intelligent, sagacious, wise, Refs 5th c.BC+; φωνάεντα συνετοῖσιν Refs 5th c.BC+; of Zeus and Apollo, ξυνετοὶ καὶ τὰ βροτῶν εἰδότες Refs 5th c.BC+; of animals, Refs 4th c.BC+; σ. ἡλικίη the age of wisdom, Refs 1st c.BC+; ἡ συνετή alone,Refs 1st c.AD+; also τὸ σ., ={σύνεσις}, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ πρὸς ἅπαν ξ. Refs: with genitive of things, intelligent in a thing, ξ. πολέμου Refs 5th c.BC+
II passive, intelligible, εὔμαρες σύνετον πόησαι πάντι τοῦτ᾽ Refs 7th c.BC+; συνετὰ αὐδᾶν, λέγειν, Refs 5th c.BC+; φωνὴ σ. significant, Refs 4th c.BC+
III adverb -τῶς intelligently, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 intelligibly, διαλέγεσθαι Refs 4th c.BC+; φθεγξαμένου.. οὐδὲν σ. Refs 1st c.AD+; συνετὰ ὁμιλεῖν to discourse intelligibly, Refs 2nd 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | sunetos | sunetas | sunetem | sunetois | sunetais | suneteim |
| object accusative | suneton | sunetan | sunetoin | sunetain | ||
| direct address vocative | sunetor | sunetar | sunetoir | sunetair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | sunetou | sunetau | suneteu | sunetoiu3×συνετῶν | sunetaiu | suneteiu |
| to, for dative | suneto1×συνετῷ | suneta | sunete | sunetoi | sunetai | sunetei |
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
sunet 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
suneto“intelligent”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 13:7“intelligent”… sun to anthupato Sergio Paulo, andro suneto. houtos proskalerantos Barnabon kai Saulon epizētata …… attendant of the proconsul, Sergius Paulus. The proconsul, a man of intelligence, summoned Barnabas and Saul because he …
sunetoiu“intelligent”of, belonging togenitive plural3×
Matthew 11:25“intelligent”… hoti kruptasa houteim apo sofoiu kai sunetoiu, kai apokaluptasa auteim nēpioi;… and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little …
Luke 10:21“intelligent”… hoti apokruptasa houteim apo sofoiu kai sunetoiu, kai apokaluptasa auteim nēpioi; nai, tos …… You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for …
1 Corinthians 1:19… toiu sofoiu, kai tan sunesian toiu sunetoiu athetami.… the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”