συναντάω
to meet with
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- 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).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
2 distinct verses where G4876 appears in the Future tense, across 2 books. 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.
Luke 1 verse
Acts 1 verse
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.
συνανταω (synantáō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to meet with.” It first appears in Luke 9:37. With 6 verses in 3 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Luke, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. It clusters with συν, κοινος and συγγενης under a shared root. 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 G4876 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 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 6 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 67%
- Gospels 2 verses · 33%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 33%
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: Met 4×
- American Standard Version: Met 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Met 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Met 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4876 across 7 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 G4876 across 7 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4876 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear 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 G4876 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- of events: to happen or befall
Word origin
Derived from συν (sýn) (G4862) — with.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G4876 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| συνήντησεν synḗntēsen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 9:37 | 2 |
| συναντήσας synantḗsas | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 10:25 | 2 |
| συναντήσει synantḗsei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 22:10 | 1 |
| συναντήσοντά synantḗsontá | Verb, Future, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Acts 20:22 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4876, 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
- συγχεω synchéō G4797 to disturb
+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 συνανταω appears 49 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 49 verses in 13 books.
- 49
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 49
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 32:2 συνἀντάω
- Exodus 4:24 συνἀντάω
- Numbers 23:16 συνἀντάω
- Deuteronomy 22:6 συνἀντάω
- Joshua 2:16 συνἀντάω
- Judges 8:21 συνἀντάω
- 2 Samuel 2:13 συνἀντάω
- Ezra 22:38 συνἀντάω
- Job 3:12 συνἀντάω
- Psalms 84:11 συνἀντάω
- Proverbs 7:10 συνἀντάω
- Ecclesiastes 2:14 συνἀντάω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4876) 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 32:2 συνἀντάω When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's host." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
- Genesis 32:18 συνἀντάω Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'"
- Genesis 46:28 συνἀντάω He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
- Exodus 4:24 συνἀντάω It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met him and wanted to kill him.
- Exodus 4:27 συνἀντάω Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.
- Exodus 5:3 συνἀντάω They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."
- Exodus 5:20 συνἀντάω They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
- Exodus 23:4 συνἀντάω "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
- Numbers 23:16 συνἀντάω Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.
- Numbers 35:19 συνἀντάω The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.
- Numbers 35:21 συνἀντάω or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.
- Deuteronomy 22:6 συνἀντάω If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young:
- Deuteronomy 23:5 συνἀντάω Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
- Deuteronomy 31:29 συνἀντάω For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
- Joshua 2:16 συνἀντάω She said to them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light on you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may you go your way.
- Joshua 11:20 συνἀντάω For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Judges 8:21 συνἀντάω Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise you, and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength. Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.
- Judges 15:12 συνἀντάω They said to him, We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves.
- Judges 18:25 συνἀντάω The children of Dan said to him, "Don't let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household."
- Judges 20:41 συνἀντάω The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil had come on them.
- 2 Samuel 2:13 συνἀντάω Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
- 2 Samuel 18:9 συνἀντάω Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
- Ezra 22:38 συνἀντάω
- Ezra 23:2 συνἀντάω
- Job 3:12 συνἀντάω Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
- Job 3:25 συνἀντάω For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.
- Job 4:14 συνἀντάω Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake.
- Job 5:14 συνἀντάω They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
- Job 27:20 συνἀντάω Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.
- Job 30:26 συνἀντάω When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
- Job 41:18 συνἀντάω His sneezing flashes forth light, His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
- Psalms 84:11 συνἀντάω For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
- Proverbs 7:10 συνἀντάω Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, And with crafty intent.
- Proverbs 9:18 συνἀντάω But he doesn't know that the dead are there, That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- Proverbs 12:13 συνἀντάω An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, But the righteous shall come out of trouble.
- Proverbs 12:23 συνἀντάω A prudent man keeps his knowledge, But the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.
- Proverbs 17:20 συνἀντάω One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, And one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
- Proverbs 20:21 συνἀντάω An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, Won't be blessed in the end.
- Proverbs 22:2 συνἀντάω The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.
- Proverbs 24:8 συνἀντάω One who plots to do evil Will be called a schemer.
- Ecclesiastes 2:14 συνἀντάω The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
- Ecclesiastes 2:15 συνἀντάω Then said I in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 9:11 συνἀντάω I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
- Isaiah 8:14 συνἀντάω He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 14:9 συνἀντάω Sheol from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
- Isaiah 21:14 συναντάω To him who was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread.
- Isaiah 34:14 συνἀντάω The wild animals of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yes, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
- Isaiah 34:15 συνἀντάω There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yes, there shall the kites be gathered, everyone with her mate.
- Isaiah 64:4 συναντάω For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4876) 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.
