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συναγωγή

gathering

also: a bringing together, a contracting fuller range ↓

G4864 Strong's Greek
synagōgḗ Transliteration
/soon-ag-o-gay'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 56 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.

συναγωγη (synagōgḗ) is a Greek noun most often rendered “gathering.” The lexical range runs to 4 senses — “gathering” plus “a bringing together” and “a contracting”. It turns up in 56 verses across 7 books, a moderately common footprint. It concentrates in Acts, which alone accounts for 34% of its uses. It first appears in Matthew 4:23. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
assembly
Modern gloss
gathering
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 G4864 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 →

56
distinct verses
The word appears in 56 distinct verses.
7 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 4:23
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 4:23.
Revelation 3:9
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 3:9.
#286
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 286 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 56 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 34 · 61%
  • Acts 19 · 34%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 1 · 2%
  • Revelation 2 · 4%

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 56 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 34 verses · 61%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 34 verses · 61%
  • Johannine 4 verses · 7%
  • Revelation 2 verses · 4%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 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: Synagogue 32×, Synagogues 22×
  • American Standard Version: Synagogue 29×, Synagogues 24×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Synagogue 31×, Synagogues 24×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Synagogue 30×, Synagogues 24×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4864 across 57 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Synagogue” 32×
  • “Synagogues” 22×

Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4864 across 54 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Synagogue” 29×
  • “Synagogues” 24×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4864 across 56 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Synagogue” 31×
  • “Synagogues” 24×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4864 across 56 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Synagogue” 30×
  • “Synagogues” 24×

Plus 2 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 4 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. a bringing together, gathering (as of fruits), a contracting
  2. in the NT, an assembling together of men, an assembly of men
  3. an assembly of Jews formally gathered together to offer prayers and listen to the reading and expositions of the…
  4. the buildings where those solemn Jewish assemblies are held. Synagogues seem to date their origin from the Babylonian…

Word origin

Derived from συναγω (synágō) (G4863) — to gather together.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TDNT: 20:18,1

From (the reduplicated form of) G4863 ; an assemblage of persons; specifically a Jewish synagogue (the meeting or the place); by analogy a Christian church : - assembly congregation synagogue.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 9 distinct written forms G4864 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
συναγωγαῖς synagōgaîs Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 4:23 15
συναγωγῇ synagōgē̂ Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 13:54 12
συναγωγὴν synagōgḕn Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 12:9 9
συναγωγὰς synagōgàs Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine Mark 1:39 7
συναγωγῆς synagōgē̂s Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Mark 1:29 6
συναγωγήν synagōgḗn Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Mark 1:21 3
συναγωγὴ synagōgḕ Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Acts 17:1 2
συναγωγάς synagōgás Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine Acts 9:2 1
συναγωγῶν synagōgō̂n Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine Luke 13:10 1

Septuagint usage

The same Greek word συναγωγη appears 199 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 185 verses in 19 books.

199
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
185
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
19 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 19 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4864) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 185. 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 (G4864) 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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