συνέρχομαι
to come together
‘to come together’ is one of 3 main senses 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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Pluperfect
- A past action completed before another past point (“had written”).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms 20 distinct
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 4 times (13%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 3 times (10%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 3 times (10%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (6%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (6%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 2 times (6%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural 2 times (6%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (3%)
+12 more forms (12 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 31 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4905 appears — 31 distinct verses across 6 books. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 2 verses
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 5:15 συνήρχοντο impf mid/pass.dep ind 3pl But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
- Luke 23:55 συνεληλυθυῖαι perf act ptcp nom pl fem The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.
John 2 verses
- John 11:33 συνελθόντας aor act ptcp acc pl masc When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
- John 18:20 συνέρχονται pres mid/pass.dep ind 3pl Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
Acts 17 verses
- Acts 1:6 συνελθόντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?"
- Acts 1:21 συνελθόντων aor act ptcp gen pl masc Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
- Acts 2:6 συνῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.
- Acts 5:16 συνήρχετο impf mid/pass.dep ind 3sg Multitudes also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people, and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed.
- Acts 9:39 συνῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper chamber. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
- Acts 10:23 συνῆλθον aor act ind 3pl So he called them in and lodged them. On the next day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.
- Acts 10:27 συνεληλυθότας perf act ptcp acc pl masc As he talked with him, he went in and found many gathered together.
- Acts 10:45 συνῆλθαν aor act ind 3pl They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.
- Acts 11:12 συνελθεῖν aor act inf The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house.
- Acts 15:38 συνελθόντα aor act ptcp acc sg masc But Paul didn't think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn't go with them to do the work.
- Acts 16:13 συνελθούσαις aor act ptcp dat pl fem On the Sabbath day we went forth outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together.
- Acts 19:32 συνεληλύθεισαν plup act ind 3pl Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they had come together.
- Acts 21:16 συνῆλθον aor act ind 3pl Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.
- Acts 21:22 συνελθεῖν aor act inf What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.
- Acts 22:30 συνελθεῖν aor act inf But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.
- Acts 25:17 συνελθόντων aor act ptcp gen pl masc When therefore they had come together here, I didn't delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought.
- Acts 28:17 συνελθόντων aor act ptcp gen pl masc It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
1 Corinthians 7 verses
- 1 Corinthians 11:17 συνέρχεσθε pres mid/pass.dep ind 2pl But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.
- 1 Corinthians 11:18 συνερχομένων pres mid/pass.dep ptcp gen pl masc For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
- 1 Corinthians 11:20 συνερχομένων pres mid/pass.dep ptcp gen pl masc When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper.
- 1 Corinthians 11:33 συνερχόμενοι pres mid/pass.dep ptcp nom pl masc Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait one for another.
- 1 Corinthians 11:34 συνέρχησθε pres mid/pass.dep subj 2pl But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.
- 1 Corinthians 14:23 συνέλθῃ aor act subj 3sg If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy?
- 1 Corinthians 14:26 συνέρχησθε pres mid/pass.dep subj 2pl What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.
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.
συνερχομαι (synérchomai) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to come together.” Acts dominates its distribution — 17 of 31 verses. Spanning 31 verses in 6 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Matthew 1:18. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. See the sense tree, 31-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4905 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 →
- 31
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 31 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #448
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 448 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 31 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 17 verses 55%
- 1 Corinthians 7 verses 23%
- Mark 2 verses 6%
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 31 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 19 verses · 61%
- Gospels 7 verses · 23%
- Pauline corpus 7 verses · 23%
- Johannine 2 verses · 6%
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: Came together 4×, Come together 3×, Were come together 3×
- American Standard Version: Come together 4×, Came 3×, Came together 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Came together 3×, Come together 3×, You come together 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Came together 4×, Coming together 3×, Come together 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4905 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 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 G4905 across 34 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 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 G4905 across 30 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 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 G4905 across 33 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 18 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 3 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.
- to assemble
- of conjugal cohabitation
- to go (depart) or come with one, to accompany one
Word origin
Derived from συν (sýn) (G4862) — with.
Forms in the corpus
The 21 distinct written forms G4905 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4905, 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).
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 συνερχομαι appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 7 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 32:26 συνἔρχομαι
- Joshua 9:2 συνἔρχομαι
- Job 6:29 συνἔρχομαι
- Proverbs 23:35 συνἔρχομαι
- Jeremiah 3:18 συνἔρχομαι
- Ezekiel 33:30 συνἔρχομαι
- Zechariah 8:21 συνἔρχομαι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4905) 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.
- Exodus 32:26 συνἔρχομαι then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.
- Joshua 9:2 συνἔρχομαι that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
- Joshua 11:5 συνἔρχομαι All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.
- Job 6:29 συνἔρχομαι Please return. Let there be no injustice; Yes, return again, my cause is righteous.
- Job 40:31 συνἔρχομαι
- Proverbs 23:35 συνἔρχομαι "They hit me, and I was not hurt; They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."
- Proverbs 29:13 συνἔρχομαι The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.
- Jeremiah 3:18 συνἔρχομαι In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.
- Ezekiel 33:30 συνἔρχομαι As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come and hear what is the word that comes forth from Yahweh.
- Zechariah 8:21 συνἔρχομαι and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, 'Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Hosts. I will go also.'
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4905) 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.
