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σύν

with

G4862 Strong's Greek
sýn Transliteration
/soon/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 129 appearances

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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.

The Greek preposition συν centers on the idea of “with.” Debuting at Matthew 25:27, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 125 verses across 15 books of the Greek New Testament, among its common vocabulary. The word gravitates to Acts (39%), then Luke and 1 Corinthians. It shares a root with κοινος, συγγενης and συγγνωμη. Dig into 125-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
beside
Modern gloss
with
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 G4862 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 →

125
distinct verses
The word appears in 125 distinct verses.
15 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 15 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 25:27
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 25:27.
2 Peter 1:18
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 2 Peter 1:18.
#129
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 129 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 125 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 37 · 30%
  • Acts 49 · 39%
  • Pauline Epistles 37 · 30%
  • General Epistles 2 · 2%
  • 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 125 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 73 verses · 58%
  • Gospels 37 verses · 30%
  • Pauline corpus 37 verses · 30%
  • Johannine 3 verses · 2%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 2%

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: With 106×, Are with 5×, Were with 4×
  • American Standard Version: With 102×, Are with 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: With 82×, Along with 11×, Together with 6×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: With 117×, Along with 6×, Together with 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4862 across 124 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “With” 106×
  • “Are with” 5×
  • “Were with” 4×
  • “They that were with” 2×
  • “Was with” 2×

Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4862 across 121 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “With” 102×
  • “Are with” 2×

Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4862 across 114 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “With” 82×
  • “Along with” 11×
  • “Together with” 6×
  • “And” 5×

Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 14 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4862 across 129 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “With” 117×
  • “Along with” 6×
  • “Together with” 2×

Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense 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. with

Word origin

Origin: a primary preposition denoting union

Part of speech: Preposition TDNT: 19:46,1

A primary preposition denoting union ; with or together (but much closer than G3326 or G3844 ) that is by association companionship process resemblance possession instrumentality addition etc.i : - beside with. In compounds it has similar applications including completeness .

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


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G4862 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
σὺν sỳn Preposition Matthew 25:27 128
σύν sýn Preposition Acts 25:23 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4862, 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.

Derived from this word

+126 more words derive from G4862 (not shown).

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 151 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word συν appears 223 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 205 verses in 26 books.

223
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
205
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
26 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 26 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4862) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 205. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4862) 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.

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