noun · feminine
sunochas
Strong’sG4928
distress, anguish
stem sunoch-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
συν-οχή, -ῆς, ή
(< συνέχω), [in LXX: Jg 2:3 (?), Jb 30:3 (שׁוֺאָה), ib. 38:28 A; Mi 5:1 (4:14), Je 52:5 (מָצוֹר) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4928 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsoon-okh-ay'
restraint, i.e. (figuratively) anxiety
Fromfrom G4912;
King Jamesanguish, distress.
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
(συνέχω) holding together, μηχανημάτων Refs 4th c.AD+; grasping in the hand, ῥόας Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 maintenance, control, σ. ἡ ἑαυτοῦ selfmaintenance, Refs 4th c.BC+
II (συνέχομαι) a being held together,
II.1 contraction, ἐν ξυνοχῇσιν ὁδοῦ where the road contracts, at a narrow part of the road, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἁλὸς ἐν ξυνοχῇσιν in the narrows or straits, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.2 conflict in battle, ἐνὶ ξυνοχῇσιν ἀγῶνος Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.3 continuity, Refs 4th c.BC+; coherence, σ. καὶ ἕνωσις τῶν μερῶν Refs 5th c.AD+; combination of elements, Refs 3rd c.AD+
II.3.b intension or connotation, Refs 5th c.AD+
II.4 line of union, meeting-place, βλεφάρων Refs 5th c.AD+; ξ. χιτῶνος the joining of the tunic on the shoulder, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ἡ κατὰ τὴν ἐσθῆτα σ. the clinging of the garment to the body, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.5 metaphorically, distress, affliction, NT; oppression, Refs 2nd c.AD+; detention, imprisonment, Refs 1st c.BC+: but of going to bed in disease, ἀκίνδυνος ἔσται ἡ σ. Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.6 trap, gin, snare, LXX
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 | sunochas1×συνοχὴ | sunochais |
| object accusative | sunochan | sunochain |
| direct address vocative | sunochar | sunochair |
| of, belonging to genitive | sunochau1×συνοχῆς | sunochaiu |
| to, for dative | sunocha | sunochai |
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
sunocha 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
sunochas“distress”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 21:25“distress”… kai astrei, kai epi tau gēau sunochas ethneiu en aporia ēcheu thalassau kai …… moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging …
sunochau“anguish”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
2 Corinthians 2:4ek gar pollau thlipsiau kai sunochau kardiau grafama vi dia polleiu dakrueiu, …… you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you …