συναγωγή
gathering
also: a bringing together, a contracting fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G4864 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Acts. Filtered view — show all forms. 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
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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- a bringing together, gathering (as of fruits), a contracting
- in the NT, an assembling together of men, an assembly of men
- an assembly of Jews formally gathered together to offer prayers and listen to the reading and expositions of the…
- 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.
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
- Genesis 1:9 συναγωγή
- Exodus 12:3 συναγωγή
- Leviticus 4:13 συναγωγή
- Numbers 1:2 συναγωγή
- Deuteronomy 5:22 συναγωγή
- Joshua 9:15 συναγωγή
- Judges 14:8 συναγωγή
- 1 Kings 12:20 συναγωγή
- 2 Chronicles 5:6 συναγωγή
- Job 8:17 συναγωγή
- Psalms 7:8 συναγωγή
- Proverbs 5:14 συναγωγή
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.
- Genesis 1:9 συναγωγή God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.
- Genesis 28:3 συναγωγή May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
- Genesis 35:11 συναγωγή God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your loins.
- Genesis 48:4 συναγωγή and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.'
- Exodus 12:3 συναγωγή Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;
- Exodus 12:6 συναγωγή and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
- Exodus 12:19 συναγωγή Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
- Exodus 12:47 συναγωγή All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
- Exodus 16:1 συναγωγή They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 16:2 συναγωγή The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
- Exodus 16:3 συναγωγή and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
- Exodus 16:6 συναγωγή Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt;
- Exodus 16:9 συναγωγή Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.'"
- Exodus 16:10 συναγωγή It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.
- Exodus 16:22 συναγωγή It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
- Exodus 17:1 συναγωγή All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
- Exodus 23:16 συναγωγή And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
- Exodus 34:22 συναγωγή You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end.
- Exodus 34:31 συναγωγή Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.
- Exodus 35:1 συναγωγή Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, "These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them.
- Exodus 35:4 συναγωγή Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying,
- Exodus 35:20 συναγωγή All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
- Exodus 38:22 συναγωγή Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:2 συναγωγή He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
- Leviticus 4:13 συναγωγή "'If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and are guilty;
- Leviticus 4:14 συναγωγή when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 4:15 συναγωγή The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull shall be killed before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 4:21 συναγωγή He shall carry forth the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
- Leviticus 8:3 συναγωγή and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting."
- Leviticus 8:4 συναγωγή Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 8:5 συναγωγή Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done."
- Leviticus 9:5 συναγωγή They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting: and all the congregation drew near and stood before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 10:3 συναγωγή Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, "'I will show myself holy to those who come near me, And before all the people I will be glorified.'" Aaron held his peace.
- Leviticus 10:6 συναγωγή Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.
- Leviticus 10:17 συναγωγή "Why haven't you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh?
- Leviticus 11:36 συναγωγή Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is a gathered shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 16:5 συναγωγή He shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering
- Leviticus 16:17 συναγωγή There shall be no one in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.
- Leviticus 16:33 συναγωγή Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.
- Leviticus 19:2 συναγωγή "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I Yahweh your God am holy.
- Leviticus 22:18 συναγωγή "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, 'Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it be any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer to Yahweh for a burnt offering;
- Leviticus 24:14 συναγωγή "Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
- Leviticus 24:16 συναγωγή He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
- Numbers 1:2 συναγωγή "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;
- Numbers 1:16 συναγωγή These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
- Numbers 1:18 συναγωγή They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.
- Numbers 8:9 συναγωγή You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 8:20 συναγωγή Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.
- Numbers 10:2 συναγωγή Make you two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shall you make them: and you shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.
- Numbers 10:3 συναγωγή When they shall blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the tent of meeting.
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.
