Strong G4912συνέχω
to hold/oppress
- Transliteration
- sunechō
- Pronunciation
- soon-ekh'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
συν-έχω
[in LXX for עָצָר, חָבַר, etc.;]
1. to hold together (τ. συνέχον τ. πάντα, Wis.1:7): of closing the ears, Act.7:57 (τ. στόμα, Isa.52:15); to hem in, press on every side: Luk.8:45 19:43.
2. to hold fast;
__(a) of a prisoner, to hold in charge (Luc.; cf. exx. in Deiss., BS, 160; MM, xxiv): Luk.22:63;
__(b) to constrain: 2Co.5:14; pass., Luk.12:50, Act.18:5 (τ. λόγῳ; cf. Field, Notes, 128), Php.1:23; in pass., of ills, to be seized or afflicted by, suffering from: Mat.4:24, Luk.4:38 8:37, Act.28:8.†
(AS)
[in LXX for עָצָר, חָבַר, etc.;]
1. to hold together (τ. συνέχον τ. πάντα, Wis.1:7): of closing the ears, Act.7:57 (τ. στόμα, Isa.52:15); to hem in, press on every side: Luk.8:45 19:43.
2. to hold fast;
__(a) of a prisoner, to hold in charge (Luc.; cf. exx. in Deiss., BS, 160; MM, xxiv): Luk.22:63;
__(b) to constrain: 2Co.5:14; pass., Luk.12:50, Act.18:5 (τ. λόγῳ; cf. Field, Notes, 128), Php.1:23; in pass., of ills, to be seized or afflicted by, suffering from: Mat.4:24, Luk.4:38 8:37, Act.28:8.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4912 appears in 12 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- take2
- constraineth1
- hold1
- in1
- keep1
- press1
- sick1
- stop1
- strait1
- straiten1
- taken1
- throng1
First verses
- Matthew 4:24And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
- Luke 4:38And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.
- Luke 8:37Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
- Luke 8:45And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
- Luke 12:50But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
- Luke 19:43For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
- Luke 22:63And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.
- Acts 7:57Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
- Acts 18:5And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
- Acts 28:8And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
- Philippians 1:23For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
συνέχω,
aorist συνέσχον:—middle, future συνέξομαι in passive sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Epistulae” 3.40: so συσχόμενος (see. below), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 250d)]:—passive, aorist συνεσχέθην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.35U.)]: future infinitive συσχεθήσεσθαι [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.97)] W.:—hold or keep together, confine, secure, ὅθι ζωστῆρος ὀχῆες χρύσειοι σύνεχον [θώρηκα] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.133, 20.415)]; ἵνα τε ξυνέχουσι τένοντες ἀγκῶνος where the sinews of the elbow hold [it] together, [Refs ([prev. work] 478 (but perhaps)]meet, see below [Refs (11))]; Ὠκεανός.. συνεῖχε σάκος enclosed, compassed it, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 315)]; Αἴτνα σ. [Τυφῶνα] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.19)]; τὼ μηρὼ σ. hold them together, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 966; τὰ σκέλη [τοῦ βρέφους] συνεχέτω 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.101; τοὺς τρεῖς ξυνέχων τῶν δακτύλων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 95)]; συνέσχον τὰ ὦτα αὐτῶν closed or stopped their ears, [NT (NT.Act.7.57)]; μηδὲ συσχέτω ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ φρέαρ τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ let not the pit close its mouth upon me, [LXX (LXX.Psa.68(69).15, cf. LXX.Isa.52.16)]; τὸ δέρμα σ. [τὰ ὀστᾶ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 98d)]; Ἄτλας ἅπαντα σ[LXX (. [prev. work] 99c; λάκκους συντετριμμένους, οἳ οὐ δυνήσονται ὕδωρ συνέχειν LXX.Jer.2.13:—)]passive, τὸ λεγόμενον ἐν φρέατι συσχόμενος” trapped in a well, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 165b)]; ὁ καρπὸς.. ἂν μὴ πλυθῇ.. συνέχεται sticks together, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.15.4)]; τὸ στόμα οὐ συνεσχέθη ἔτι my mouth was no longer closed, [LXX (LXX.Eze.33.22.)]
2 keep together, keep from dispersing, στράτευμα, δύναμιν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.2.8, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.76; σ. ἐν τῷ χάρακι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.39.1; ὥπλισε.. καὶ συνεῖχε τοῦ τείχους ἐντός 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Camillus” 23; περὶ Κύπρον σ. τὸ ναυτικόν [prev. author] “Cim.” 18)]; continue, keep on, μὴ πλείους πέντε ἡμερῶν σύσχῃς τὸ ὕδωρ (the flooding) [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 155.5 (3rd c.BC))]; keep, τοὺς πολίτας σ. ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 22, compare 2.193e; προστάξαντος αὐτοῦ ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις συνέχειν ἑαυτόν, ὁ δὲ ἀπεδύσατο 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 14.48)]; preserve, οἱ ἅλες ἐπὶ πλεῖστον [τὰ σώματα] συνέχοντες [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.255)]; maintain, σ. τοὺς στρατιώτας ἐκ τῶν ἱεροσυληθέντων λειψάνων [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 16.61)]:—passive, to be continuous, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 8.23)]; to be maintained, πᾶσα ἕξις.. ὑπὸ τῶν καταλλήλων ἔργων συνέχεται καὶ αὔξεται [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.18.1.)]
2.b of social and political order, σ. πόλεις keep states together, keep them from falling to pieces, maintain them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 312, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.9; τὸ φρονεῖν σ. δώματα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 392 (Lyric poetry), compare 1308)]; καὶ θεοὺς καὶ ἀνθρώπους ἡ κοινωνία σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 508a; ἡ τὰ πάντα πολιτεύματα συνέχουσα εἰς ἓν δίκη [prev. author] “Lg.” 945d, compare “Plt.” 311c; σ. τὴν πολιτείαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.2; τὴν πολιτικὴν κοινωνίαν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1278b25, compare 1270b17; ὀρθῶς ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι τὴν δύναμιν τῶν Ἀθηναίων συνεῖχεν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 22)]; ἐν οἴνῳ τὰς ἀρχὰς συνεῖχε conducted the government over wine, [LXX+5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.714b; also ὁ τὸν ὅλον κόσμον συντάττων καὶ συνέχων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.3.13, cf. LXX.Wis.1.7)]; ξ. τὴν εἰρεσίαν keep the rowers together, make them pull in time, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.14)]:—passive, μετ᾽ ἀλλήλων συνέχεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 43e.)]
2.c keep together in friendship, ἁμέ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1265 (Lyric poetry); τοὺς ἐρωμένους 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 13.563e)]:—passive, τὸ ὂν συνέχεται.. φιλίᾳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 242e; τὰ πράγματα ὑπ᾽ εὐνοίας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 11.7.)]
2.d passive also, engage in close combat, ἐγχειριδίοισι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.214)]; of sexual intercourse, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 540a24, “GA” 731a19, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 28.3.)]
2.e occupy or engage, ἑαυτὸν ἐν γυναιξὶ καὶ θιάσοις [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cleomenes” 34; [γυναῖκα] συνέχειν ἐπὶ καπηλείου [prev. author] 2.785d.)]
3 contain, comprise, embrace, εἷς λόγος πάσας τὰς αἰσθήσεις σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Mi.” 374d)]; τὸ συνέχον the chief matter, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.12.3, 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 9.7.1, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.516; τὸ σ. καὶ κυριώτατον 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.22 O.; τὰ συνέχοντα 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.46.6, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.2; τὰ σ. ἀγαθά 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 1.25: with _genitive_, τὸ σ. τῆς ἐκκλησίας)] the chief reason for.. , [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 28.4.2, compare 4.51.1, 18.39.3)]; τῆς σωτηρίας the chief means of.. , [Refs ([prev. author] 10.47.11)]; τὰ σ. τῶν ἐγγράπτων the chief clauses, [Refs ([prev. author] 3.27.1; τὸ σ. τῆς ἐννοίας [prev. author] 3.29.9, compare 4.5.5, 18.44.2:)] —passive, τὸν πρὸς τῇ ὑπεκλύσει πυρετὸν ὑπ᾽ ἄλλης αἰτίας συνέχεσθαι is chiefly caused (compare συνεκτικός) by.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.4.)]
4 detain, τὰς καμήλους ἐν τῇ Νεχθενίβιος (i.e. κώμῃ) [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PMich.Zen.” 103.3 (3rd c.BC))]; sequestrate, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (PEnteux. 3.7, 85.3 (3rd c.BC))]; keep under arrest, [NT+3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri Michegan 36.6 (3rd c.BC), “BGU” 1824.27 (1st c.BC), NT.Luke.22.63; προσαπήγαγέν με εἰς τὴν φυλακὴν καὶ συνέσχεν ἐφ᾽ ἡμέρας δ ¯ “PEnteux.” 83.7 (3rd c.BC), compare 84.11 (3rd c.BC))]:—passive, συνέχομαι ἐμ φυλακῇ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PPetr.” 2p.50 (3rd c.BC),compare “PCair.Zen.” 347.3 (3rd c.BC), “PRyl.” 65.11 (1st c.BC))], etc.; of things held as security, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 373.3 (3rd c.BC).)]
5 constrain or force one to a thing, ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ Χριστοῦ σ. ἡμᾶς [NT (NT.2Cor.5.14)]; oppress, [NT+2nd c.AD+ (NT.Luke.8.45, 19.43; ἡ σκληροκοιτία λυπεῖ καὶ σ. τὸ σῶμα 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.196:—used by early writers only in)]passive, συνέχεσθαί τινι to be constrained, distressed, afflicted, and, generally, to be affected by anything whether in mind or body, πατρὶ συνείχετο.. χαλεπῷ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.131; ξ. τοῖσι Λυκούργου πατριώταις 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 11)]; σ. πολέμῳ, δουληΐῃ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.23, 6.12; ὀνείρασι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 656; φροντίδι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 634)]; δίψῃ, πόνῳ, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49, 3.98; πυρετῷ NT.Luke.4.38; κακῷ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 1096; μεγάλοις καὶ ἀνιάτοις νοσήμασιν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 512a; πάσῃ ἀπορίᾳ [prev. author] “Sph.” 250d; ἀγρυπνίαις “IG” 42(1).122.50 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; τῷ λόγῳ (variant{πνεύματι}) [NT+1st c.BC+ (NT.Act.18.5; γέλωτι συσχεθέντα τελευτῆσαι 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 7.185; ἔρωτι συσχεθείς 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Conon Historicus 40.3; ἄνθρωπος συνεχόμενος ἀπὸ οἴνου LXX.Jer.23.9)]; συνεχομένη τῇ συνειδήσει[LXX (LXX.Wis.17.11.)]
6 constrain, hinder, hold back, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 59)]; σύσχῃ τὸν οὐρανόν shut up the heaven, [LXX (LXX.Deu.11.17)]; συνεσχέθη ὁ ὑετὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ[LXX (LXX.Gen.8.2)]; συνεσχέθη ἡ θραῦσις ἐπάνωθεν Ἰσραήλ the plague was stayed from Israel,[LXX+2nd c.AD+ (LXX.2Ki.24.25: _metaphorically_, ὑπὸ τοῦ γένους 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 122.22, compare “Synt.” 342.18.)]
7 hold at the same time, δύο σχολάς [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.1.48.)]
8 buy up and withhold, make a corner in, σῖτον [LXX (LXX.Pro.11.26.)]
9 Grammars, σ. τὸ ἄρθρον to be accompanied by the article, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 35.2, +others)]
10 συνέσχον I also received.. , [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“BGU” 577.16 (3rd c.AD), etc.)]
II intransitive, meet, see[Refs 4th c.BC+ (above 1.1; εἰς ἕν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 530b27)]; πρός τι to be connected with, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.145.)]
aorist συνέσχον:—middle, future συνέξομαι in passive sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Epistulae” 3.40: so συσχόμενος (see. below), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 250d)]:—passive, aorist συνεσχέθην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.35U.)]: future infinitive συσχεθήσεσθαι [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.97)] W.:—hold or keep together, confine, secure, ὅθι ζωστῆρος ὀχῆες χρύσειοι σύνεχον [θώρηκα] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.133, 20.415)]; ἵνα τε ξυνέχουσι τένοντες ἀγκῶνος where the sinews of the elbow hold [it] together, [Refs ([prev. work] 478 (but perhaps)]meet, see below [Refs (11))]; Ὠκεανός.. συνεῖχε σάκος enclosed, compassed it, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 315)]; Αἴτνα σ. [Τυφῶνα] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.19)]; τὼ μηρὼ σ. hold them together, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 966; τὰ σκέλη [τοῦ βρέφους] συνεχέτω 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.101; τοὺς τρεῖς ξυνέχων τῶν δακτύλων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 95)]; συνέσχον τὰ ὦτα αὐτῶν closed or stopped their ears, [NT (NT.Act.7.57)]; μηδὲ συσχέτω ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ φρέαρ τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ let not the pit close its mouth upon me, [LXX (LXX.Psa.68(69).15, cf. LXX.Isa.52.16)]; τὸ δέρμα σ. [τὰ ὀστᾶ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 98d)]; Ἄτλας ἅπαντα σ[LXX (. [prev. work] 99c; λάκκους συντετριμμένους, οἳ οὐ δυνήσονται ὕδωρ συνέχειν LXX.Jer.2.13:—)]passive, τὸ λεγόμενον ἐν φρέατι συσχόμενος” trapped in a well, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 165b)]; ὁ καρπὸς.. ἂν μὴ πλυθῇ.. συνέχεται sticks together, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.15.4)]; τὸ στόμα οὐ συνεσχέθη ἔτι my mouth was no longer closed, [LXX (LXX.Eze.33.22.)]
2 keep together, keep from dispersing, στράτευμα, δύναμιν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.2.8, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.76; σ. ἐν τῷ χάρακι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.39.1; ὥπλισε.. καὶ συνεῖχε τοῦ τείχους ἐντός 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Camillus” 23; περὶ Κύπρον σ. τὸ ναυτικόν [prev. author] “Cim.” 18)]; continue, keep on, μὴ πλείους πέντε ἡμερῶν σύσχῃς τὸ ὕδωρ (the flooding) [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 155.5 (3rd c.BC))]; keep, τοὺς πολίτας σ. ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 22, compare 2.193e; προστάξαντος αὐτοῦ ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις συνέχειν ἑαυτόν, ὁ δὲ ἀπεδύσατο 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 14.48)]; preserve, οἱ ἅλες ἐπὶ πλεῖστον [τὰ σώματα] συνέχοντες [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.255)]; maintain, σ. τοὺς στρατιώτας ἐκ τῶν ἱεροσυληθέντων λειψάνων [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 16.61)]:—passive, to be continuous, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 8.23)]; to be maintained, πᾶσα ἕξις.. ὑπὸ τῶν καταλλήλων ἔργων συνέχεται καὶ αὔξεται [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.18.1.)]
2.b of social and political order, σ. πόλεις keep states together, keep them from falling to pieces, maintain them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 312, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.9; τὸ φρονεῖν σ. δώματα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 392 (Lyric poetry), compare 1308)]; καὶ θεοὺς καὶ ἀνθρώπους ἡ κοινωνία σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 508a; ἡ τὰ πάντα πολιτεύματα συνέχουσα εἰς ἓν δίκη [prev. author] “Lg.” 945d, compare “Plt.” 311c; σ. τὴν πολιτείαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.2; τὴν πολιτικὴν κοινωνίαν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1278b25, compare 1270b17; ὀρθῶς ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι τὴν δύναμιν τῶν Ἀθηναίων συνεῖχεν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 22)]; ἐν οἴνῳ τὰς ἀρχὰς συνεῖχε conducted the government over wine, [LXX+5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.714b; also ὁ τὸν ὅλον κόσμον συντάττων καὶ συνέχων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.3.13, cf. LXX.Wis.1.7)]; ξ. τὴν εἰρεσίαν keep the rowers together, make them pull in time, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.14)]:—passive, μετ᾽ ἀλλήλων συνέχεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 43e.)]
2.c keep together in friendship, ἁμέ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1265 (Lyric poetry); τοὺς ἐρωμένους 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 13.563e)]:—passive, τὸ ὂν συνέχεται.. φιλίᾳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 242e; τὰ πράγματα ὑπ᾽ εὐνοίας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 11.7.)]
2.d passive also, engage in close combat, ἐγχειριδίοισι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.214)]; of sexual intercourse, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 540a24, “GA” 731a19, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 28.3.)]
2.e occupy or engage, ἑαυτὸν ἐν γυναιξὶ καὶ θιάσοις [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cleomenes” 34; [γυναῖκα] συνέχειν ἐπὶ καπηλείου [prev. author] 2.785d.)]
3 contain, comprise, embrace, εἷς λόγος πάσας τὰς αἰσθήσεις σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Mi.” 374d)]; τὸ συνέχον the chief matter, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.12.3, 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 9.7.1, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.516; τὸ σ. καὶ κυριώτατον 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.22 O.; τὰ συνέχοντα 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.46.6, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.2; τὰ σ. ἀγαθά 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 1.25: with _genitive_, τὸ σ. τῆς ἐκκλησίας)] the chief reason for.. , [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 28.4.2, compare 4.51.1, 18.39.3)]; τῆς σωτηρίας the chief means of.. , [Refs ([prev. author] 10.47.11)]; τὰ σ. τῶν ἐγγράπτων the chief clauses, [Refs ([prev. author] 3.27.1; τὸ σ. τῆς ἐννοίας [prev. author] 3.29.9, compare 4.5.5, 18.44.2:)] —passive, τὸν πρὸς τῇ ὑπεκλύσει πυρετὸν ὑπ᾽ ἄλλης αἰτίας συνέχεσθαι is chiefly caused (compare συνεκτικός) by.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.4.)]
4 detain, τὰς καμήλους ἐν τῇ Νεχθενίβιος (i.e. κώμῃ) [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PMich.Zen.” 103.3 (3rd c.BC))]; sequestrate, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (PEnteux. 3.7, 85.3 (3rd c.BC))]; keep under arrest, [NT+3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri Michegan 36.6 (3rd c.BC), “BGU” 1824.27 (1st c.BC), NT.Luke.22.63; προσαπήγαγέν με εἰς τὴν φυλακὴν καὶ συνέσχεν ἐφ᾽ ἡμέρας δ ¯ “PEnteux.” 83.7 (3rd c.BC), compare 84.11 (3rd c.BC))]:—passive, συνέχομαι ἐμ φυλακῇ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PPetr.” 2p.50 (3rd c.BC),compare “PCair.Zen.” 347.3 (3rd c.BC), “PRyl.” 65.11 (1st c.BC))], etc.; of things held as security, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 373.3 (3rd c.BC).)]
5 constrain or force one to a thing, ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ Χριστοῦ σ. ἡμᾶς [NT (NT.2Cor.5.14)]; oppress, [NT+2nd c.AD+ (NT.Luke.8.45, 19.43; ἡ σκληροκοιτία λυπεῖ καὶ σ. τὸ σῶμα 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.196:—used by early writers only in)]passive, συνέχεσθαί τινι to be constrained, distressed, afflicted, and, generally, to be affected by anything whether in mind or body, πατρὶ συνείχετο.. χαλεπῷ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.131; ξ. τοῖσι Λυκούργου πατριώταις 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 11)]; σ. πολέμῳ, δουληΐῃ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.23, 6.12; ὀνείρασι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 656; φροντίδι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 634)]; δίψῃ, πόνῳ, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49, 3.98; πυρετῷ NT.Luke.4.38; κακῷ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 1096; μεγάλοις καὶ ἀνιάτοις νοσήμασιν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 512a; πάσῃ ἀπορίᾳ [prev. author] “Sph.” 250d; ἀγρυπνίαις “IG” 42(1).122.50 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; τῷ λόγῳ (variant{πνεύματι}) [NT+1st c.BC+ (NT.Act.18.5; γέλωτι συσχεθέντα τελευτῆσαι 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 7.185; ἔρωτι συσχεθείς 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Conon Historicus 40.3; ἄνθρωπος συνεχόμενος ἀπὸ οἴνου LXX.Jer.23.9)]; συνεχομένη τῇ συνειδήσει[LXX (LXX.Wis.17.11.)]
6 constrain, hinder, hold back, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 59)]; σύσχῃ τὸν οὐρανόν shut up the heaven, [LXX (LXX.Deu.11.17)]; συνεσχέθη ὁ ὑετὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ[LXX (LXX.Gen.8.2)]; συνεσχέθη ἡ θραῦσις ἐπάνωθεν Ἰσραήλ the plague was stayed from Israel,[LXX+2nd c.AD+ (LXX.2Ki.24.25: _metaphorically_, ὑπὸ τοῦ γένους 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 122.22, compare “Synt.” 342.18.)]
7 hold at the same time, δύο σχολάς [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.1.48.)]
8 buy up and withhold, make a corner in, σῖτον [LXX (LXX.Pro.11.26.)]
9 Grammars, σ. τὸ ἄρθρον to be accompanied by the article, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 35.2, +others)]
10 συνέσχον I also received.. , [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“BGU” 577.16 (3rd c.AD), etc.)]
II intransitive, meet, see[Refs 4th c.BC+ (above 1.1; εἰς ἕν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 530b27)]; πρός τι to be connected with, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.145.)]