G4864 – sunagoge – συναγωγή assembly, congregation, synagogue

Strong’s ID:
G4864
Greek Word:
συναγωγή
Transliteration:
sunagoge
Pronunciation:
soon-ag-o-gay’
Part of Speech:
noun feminine
Usage Count:
57
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Find “sunagoge” in the Bible (New Testament)

Strong’s Greek Lexicon

from (the reduplicated form of) G4863; an assemblage of persons; specifically, a Jewish “synagogue” (the meeting or the place); by analogy, a Christian church:—assembly, congregation, synagogue.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) a bringing together, gathering (as of fruits), a contracting
2) in the NT, an assembling together of men, an assembly of men
3) a synagogue
3a) an assembly of Jews formally gathered together to offer prayers and listen to the reading and expositions of the scriptures; assemblies of that sort were held every sabbath and feast day, afterwards also on the second and fifth days of every week; name transferred to an assembly of Christians formally gathered together for religious purposes
3b) the buildings where those solemn Jewish assemblies are held. Synagogues seem to date their origin from the Babylonian exile. In the times of Jesus and the apostles every town, not only in Palestine, but also among the Gentiles if it contained a considerable number of Jewish inhabitants, had at least one synagogue, the larger towns several or even many. These were also used for trials and inflicting punishment.

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.