Συχάρ
Sychar
Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Sychar’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Every verse where G4965 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
John 1 verse
About this entry
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“Sychar” is the headline sense of the Greek name Συχαρ (Sychár). A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Greek New Testament. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in John. Scripture uses it exactly once, at John 4:5. See 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4965 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- John 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
- Johannine 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Sychar 1×
- American Standard Version: Sychar 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sychar 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sychar 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4965 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4965 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4965 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4965 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 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.
- Sychar = "drunken"
- probably another name for the town of Shechem, a town in Samaria, near the well of Jacob
Word origin
Derived from שכר (shêkâr) (H7941) — strong drink.
Of hebrew origin [ H7941 ]; Sychar (that is Shekar ) a place in Palestine : - Sychar.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Sychar). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Liar or drunkard (see Isa. 28:1, 7), has been from the time of the Crusaders usually identified with Sychem or Shechem (John 4:5). It has now, however, as the result of recent explorations, been identified with Askar, a small Samaritan town on the southern base of Ebal, about a mile to the north of Jacob's well.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
a place named only in (John 4:5) Sychar was either a name applied to the town of Shechem or it was an independent place. The first of these alternatives is now almost universally accepted. [Shechem]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
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