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συμπεριλαμβάνω

to comprehend

‘to comprehend’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G4843 Strong's Greek
symperilambánō Transliteration
/soom-per-ee-lam-ban'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1 appearance

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About this entry

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συμπεριλαμβανω (symperilambánō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to comprehend.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Acts, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Acts 20:10. Ranging over 2 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

Strong's · 1890
embrace
Modern gloss
to comprehend
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G4843 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 →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Acts 20:10
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Acts 20:10.
#3,503
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 1 · 100%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 1 distinct verse.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 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: Embracing 1×
  • American Standard Version: Embracing 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Embraced 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having embraced him 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4843 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Embracing” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4843 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Embracing” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4843 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Embraced” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4843 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Having embraced him” 1×

Senses in Thayer's

The 2 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.

  1. to comprehend at once
  2. to embrace completely

Word origin

Derived from συν (sýn) (G4862) — with.

Part of speech: Verb

From G4862 and a compound of G4012 and G2983 ; to take by inclosing altogether that is earnestly throw the arms about one : - embrace.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4843, 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.

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Shares the same root

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