συγχέω
to disturb
‘to disturb’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Imperfect-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4797 appears — 5 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 5 verses
- Acts 2:6 συνεχύθη aor pass ind 3sg When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.
- Acts 9:22 συνέχυννεν impf act ind 3sg But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.
- Acts 19:32 συγκεχυμένη perf pass ptcp nom sg fem Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they had come together.
- Acts 21:27 συνέχεον impf act ind 3pl When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,
- Acts 21:31 συνχύννεται pres pass ind 3sg As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
συγχεω (synchéō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to disturb.” With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Acts, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It first appears in Acts 2:6. Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4797 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 5 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Confounded 1×, Confused 1×, Stirred up 1×
- American Standard Version: Confounded 1×, Confusion 1×, Stirred up 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bewilderment 1×, He confounded 1×, They stirred up 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Confused 1×, Stirring up 1×, Was agitated 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4797 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4797 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4797 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4797 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to pour together, commingle
- to disturb the mind of one, to stir up to tumult or outbreak
- to confound or bewilder
Word origin
Derived from συν (sýn) (G4862) — with.
Or συγχύνω sugchunō soong-khoo'-no From G4862 and χέω cheō (to pour ) or its alternate; to commingle promiscuously that is (figuratively) to throw (an assembly) into disorder to perplex (the mind): - confound confuse stir up be in an uproar.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G4797 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| συγκεχυμένη synkechyménē | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 19:32 | 1 |
| συνέχεον synécheon | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 21:27 | 1 |
| συνέχυννεν synéchynnen | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 9:22 | 1 |
| συνεχύθη synechýthē | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 2:6 | 1 |
| συνχύννεται synchýnnetai | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 21:31 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4797, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- κοινος koinós G2839 common
- συγγενης syngenḗs G4773 related by blood
- συγγνωμη syngnṓmē G4774 pardon
- συγκαθημαι synkáthēmai G4775 to sit together
- συγκαθιζω synkathízō G4776 to sit together
- συγκακοπαθεω synkakopathéō G4777 to suffer together
- συγκακουχεω synkakouchéō G4778 to be ill-treated together
- συγκαλεω synkaléō G4779 to call together
- συγκαλυπτω synkalýptō G4780 to cover completely
- συγκαμπτω synkámptō G4781 to bend together
- συγκαταβαινω synkatabaínō G4782 to go down with
- συγκατατιθεμαι synkatatíthemai G4784 to deposit together
- συγκαταψηφιζω synkatapsēphízō G4785 to vote against
- συγκεραννυμι synkeránnymi G4786 to mix together
- συγκλειω synkleíō G4788 to shut up
- συγκληρονομος synklēronómos G4789 joint heir
- συγκοινωνεω synkoinōnéō G4790 to share together
- συγκοινωνος synkoinōnós G4791 joint partner
- συγκομιζω synkomízō G4792 to collect together
- συγκρινω synkrínō G4793 to join together
- συγκυπτω synkýptō G4794 to bend together
- συγκυρια synkyría G4795 by chance
- συγχαιρω synchaírō G4796 to rejoice with
- συγχραομαι synchráomai G4798 to associate with
+125 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 152 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word συγχεω appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 8 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 11:7 συνχέω
- 1 Samuel 7:10 συνχέω
- 1 Kings 21:43 συνχέω
- Joel 2:1 συνχέω
- Amos 3:15 συνχέω
- Jonah 4:1 συνχέω
- Micah 7:17 συνχέω
- Nahum 2:5 συνχέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4797) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 11:7 συνχέω Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
- Genesis 11:9 συνχέω Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
- 1 Samuel 7:10 συνχέω As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel.
- 1 Kings 21:43 συνχέω
- Joel 2:1 συνχέω Blow you the trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, For the day of Yahweh comes, For it is close at hand:
- Joel 2:10 συνχέω The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, And the stars withdraw their shining.
- Amos 3:15 συνχέω I will strike the winter house with the summer house; And the houses of ivory will perish, And the great houses will have an end," says Yahweh.
- Jonah 4:1 συνχέω But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
- Micah 7:17 συνχέω They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, And will be afraid because of you.
- Nahum 2:5 συνχέω He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4797) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
