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συνείδω

to know with

‘to know with’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓

G4894 Strong's Greek
syneídō Transliteration
/soon-i'-do/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 4 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.

At its core, συνειδω (syneídō) means “to know with.” It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Acts (75%), then 1 Corinthians. It first appears in Acts 5:2. Ranging over 4 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
consider
Modern gloss
to know 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 G4894 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 →

4
distinct verses
The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
2 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
Acts 5:2
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Acts 5:2.
1 Corinthians 4:4
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Corinthians 4:4.
#1,877
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 3 · 75%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 25%
  • 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 4 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 75%
  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 25%

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: Being privy 1×, He had considered 1×, I know 1×
  • American Standard Version: Being privy 1×, He had considered 1×, I know 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Conscience is clear 1×, Full knowledge 1×, He had realized 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having become aware of it 1×, Having realized this 1×, I am aware of 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4894 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Being privy” 1×
  • “He had considered” 1×
  • “I know” 1×
  • “They were ware” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4894 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Being privy” 1×
  • “He had considered” 1×
  • “I know” 1×
  • “They became aware of” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4894 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Conscience is clear” 1×
  • “Full knowledge” 1×
  • “He had realized” 1×
  • “They found out about it” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4894 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Having become aware of it” 1×
  • “Having realized this” 1×
  • “I am aware of” 1×
  • “Knowing” 1×

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. to see (have seen) together with others
  2. to see (have seen) in one's mind with one's self
  3. to know with another
  4. to know in one's mind or with one's self, to be conscience of

Word origin

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

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 7:898,*

From G4862 and G1492 ; to see completely ; used (like its primary) only in two past tenses respectively meaning to understand or become aware and to be conscious or (clandestinely) informed of : - consider know be privy be ware of.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 4 distinct written forms G4894 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
συνειδυίης syneidyíēs Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Acts 5:2 1
συνιδόντες synidóntes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 14:6 1
συνιδών synidṓn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 12:12 1
σύνοιδα sýnoida Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 Corinthians 4:4 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4894, 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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