συνετός
wise
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4908 appears in the Book of 1 Corinthians — 1 distinct verse. 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.
1 Corinthians
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.
συνετος (synetós) is a Greek adjective most often rendered “wise.” It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Matthew dominates its distribution — 1 of 4 verses. Debuting at Matthew 11:25, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include συνιημι and συνεσις. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4908 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.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 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 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 50%
- 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: Prudent 4×
- American Standard Version: Understanding 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Learned 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Intelligent 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4908 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4908 across 3 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 G4908 across 4 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4908 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- intelligent, having understanding, wise, learned
Word origin
Derived from συνιημι (syníēmi) (G4920) — to understand.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4908 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| συνετῶν synetō̂n | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 11:25 | 3 |
| συνετῷ synetō̂ | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 13:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4908, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word συνετος appears 35 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 35 verses in 13 books.
- 35
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 35
- 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 41:33 συνετός
- Exodus 31:6 συνετός
- Deuteronomy 1:13 συνετός
- 1 Samuel 16:18 συνετός
- 2 Kings 11:9 συνετός
- 1 Chronicles 15:22 συνετός
- Job 34:10 συνετός
- Proverbs 12:8 συνετός
- Ecclesiastes 9:11 συνετός
- Isaiah 3:3 συνετός
- Jeremiah 4:22 συνετός
- Daniel 1:4 συνετός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4908) 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 41:33 συνετός Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 41:39 συνετός Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.
- Exodus 31:6 συνετός I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
- Deuteronomy 1:13 συνετός Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
- Deuteronomy 1:15 συνετός So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
- 1 Samuel 16:18 συνετός Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him.
- 2 Kings 11:9 συνετός The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
- 1 Chronicles 15:22 συνετός Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song: he instructed about the song, because he was skillful.
- 1 Chronicles 27:32 συνετός Also Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons:
- Job 34:10 συνετός "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, From the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
- Job 34:34 συνετός Men of understanding will tell me, Yes, every wise man who hears me:
- Proverbs 12:8 συνετός A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, But he who has a warped mind shall be despised.
- Proverbs 12:23 συνετός A prudent man keeps his knowledge, But the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.
- Proverbs 15:24 συνετός The path of life leads upward for the wise, To keep him from going downward to Sheol.
- Proverbs 16:16 συνετός How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
- Proverbs 16:17 συνετός The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
- Proverbs 17:24 συνετός Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, But the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
- Proverbs 23:9 συνετός Don't speak in the ears of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
- Proverbs 28:7 συνετός Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; But he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
- Proverbs 31:30 συνετός Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
- Ecclesiastes 9:11 συνετός 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 3:3 συνετός The captain of fifty, The honorable man, The counselor, The skilled craftsman, And the clever enchanter.
- Isaiah 5:21 συνετός Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!
- Isaiah 19:11 συνετός The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
- Isaiah 29:14 συνετός therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
- Isaiah 32:8 συνετός But the noble devises noble things; and in noble things shall he continue.
- Jeremiah 4:22 συνετός For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
- Jeremiah 9:11 συνετός I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 18:18 συνετός Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
- Jeremiah 27:9 συνετός But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon:
- Jeremiah 27:35 συνετός
- Jeremiah 30:1 συνετός The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
- Daniel 1:4 συνετός youths in whom was no blemish, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability to stand in the king's palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.
- Daniel 6:4 συνετός Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
- Hosea 14:10 συνετός
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4908) 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.
