Strong G4914συνήθεια
custom
- Transliteration
- sunētheia
- Pronunciation
- soon-ay'-thi-ah
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Detailed definition
συνήθεια, -ας, ἡ
(ἦθος), [in LXX: 4Ma.2:12 4Mac 6:13 4Mac 13:22 4Mac 13:27 *;]
1 1 intimacy.
2. habit, custom: Jhn.18:39, 1Co.11:16; with genitive obj. (cf. Æschin., 23, 37, and see MM, xxiv), habitual use, force of habit with respect to, 1Co.8:7.†
(AS)
(ἦθος), [in LXX: 4Ma.2:12 4Mac 6:13 4Mac 13:22 4Mac 13:27 *;]
1 1 intimacy.
2. habit, custom: Jhn.18:39, 1Co.11:16; with genitive obj. (cf. Æschin., 23, 37, and see MM, xxiv), habitual use, force of habit with respect to, 1Co.8:7.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4914 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- custom2
First verses
- John 18:39But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
- 1 Corinthians 11:16But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
συνήθεια, ἡ,
habitual intercourse, acquaintance, intimacy, αἱ πρὸς ἀλλήλους σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.1; διατριβαὶ καὶ -θειαι μετά τινων 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.23; ἡ τῶν φίλων σ. [prev. work]152; σ. καὶ φιλία 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 753a12)]; ἡ πολιτικὴ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “EN” 1181a11; τὰς τῶν φαύλων σ. ὀλίγος χρόνος διέλυσε 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.1; ὅπως ἂν αἱ σ. διαζευχθῶσιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1319b26)]; καὶ αὐτῷ δέ μοί εἰσι σ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 42.2 (3rd c.BC))]; ὢν ἡμῖν ἐν συνηθείᾳ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PMich.Zen.” 82.3 (3rd c.BC).)]
b sexual intercourse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.31 (variant); σ. ἔχειν μετὰ γυναικός 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.310e; πρὸς γυναῖκα 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 288.23.)]
2 of animals, herding together, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 575b19)]; νέμεσθαι κατὰ συνηθείας in herds,[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 611a7, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 2.31)]; so of soldiers, κατὰ συνηθείας in messes, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 35.4.14.)]
II habit, custom, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (hymnus ad Mercurium 485 (_plural_), 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 3, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 516a, etc.)]; plural, φαῦλαι σ. bad habits, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Gnomologium Vaticanum - Kleine Schriften” 46; κατὰ συνήθειαν τοῦ προτέρου βίου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 620a)]; ἐν τοῖς ἤθεσι τοῖς τῆς ἑαυτοῦ συνηθείας in his own accustomed haunts, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 865e)]; ἡ σ. τοῦ ἔργου habituation to it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 12.4; λήθην ἢ συνήθειαν τῶν ἀδικημάτων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.3, compare 60.27; πολλῆς.. σ. ἡ ῥητορική 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 46)]; τῇ σ. τοῦ εἰδώλου by being used to it, [NT (NT.1Cor.8.7)]; practice, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.42.7, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 656d: with Preps., διὰ συνήθειαν [prev. author] “Sph.” 248b)]; διὰ τὴν σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 494b21; ἐκ συνηθείας “OGI” 629.12,79 (Palmyra, 2nd c.AD))]; κατὰ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “R.” [same place]; παρὰ συνήθειαν [prev. author] “Lg.” 655e; ἠναγκάσμεθα ὑπὸ συνηθείας [prev. author] “Tht.” 157b)]; σ. ἔχειν τῇ πολιτείᾳ to be used to it, practised in it, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 39.5.2; σ. κτᾶσθαι πρὸς τὰ κοινά 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.791a.)]
II.2 the customary usage of language, ἐκ σ. ῥημάτων καὶ ὀνομάτων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 168b, compare 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.33)]; εἰς συνήθειαν ἐποίησε τοῦ λόγου τούτου τὴν πόλιν καταστῆναι brought the city to habitual use of this phrase, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.165)]; ἡ σ. τῶν Ἑλλήνων, αἱ κατὰ τὰς διαλέκτους σ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.59 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).237, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 5.2)]; ἐν τῇ τεχνικῇ καὶ μὴ εἰκαίᾳ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Diocles Epigrammaticus 5th c.BC: Magnes Comicus “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 3.214)]: absolutely, ordinary language, ἐν τῇ σ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.22f, compare[prev. work] c, 1113a)]; κατὰ τὴν σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 323.22, compare 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 69, +others, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Amm.” 2.11, 1st c.AD: Herodotus Medicus in “Rh.Mus.” 49.549.)]
III customary gratuity, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (Sammelb. 7336.13 (3rd c.AD), 7369.25 (6th c.AD), “PLond.” 1.113 (3). 11, 3.1036.8 (both 6th c.AD))]: plural, perquisites, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-6th c.AD: Codex Justinianus 3.2.4, 6th c.AD: Justinianus Imperator “Novellae” 134.1, +others)]
habitual intercourse, acquaintance, intimacy, αἱ πρὸς ἀλλήλους σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.1; διατριβαὶ καὶ -θειαι μετά τινων 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.23; ἡ τῶν φίλων σ. [prev. work]152; σ. καὶ φιλία 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 753a12)]; ἡ πολιτικὴ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “EN” 1181a11; τὰς τῶν φαύλων σ. ὀλίγος χρόνος διέλυσε 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.1; ὅπως ἂν αἱ σ. διαζευχθῶσιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1319b26)]; καὶ αὐτῷ δέ μοί εἰσι σ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 42.2 (3rd c.BC))]; ὢν ἡμῖν ἐν συνηθείᾳ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PMich.Zen.” 82.3 (3rd c.BC).)]
b sexual intercourse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.31 (variant); σ. ἔχειν μετὰ γυναικός 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.310e; πρὸς γυναῖκα 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 288.23.)]
2 of animals, herding together, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 575b19)]; νέμεσθαι κατὰ συνηθείας in herds,[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 611a7, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 2.31)]; so of soldiers, κατὰ συνηθείας in messes, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 35.4.14.)]
II habit, custom, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (hymnus ad Mercurium 485 (_plural_), 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 3, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 516a, etc.)]; plural, φαῦλαι σ. bad habits, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Gnomologium Vaticanum - Kleine Schriften” 46; κατὰ συνήθειαν τοῦ προτέρου βίου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 620a)]; ἐν τοῖς ἤθεσι τοῖς τῆς ἑαυτοῦ συνηθείας in his own accustomed haunts, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 865e)]; ἡ σ. τοῦ ἔργου habituation to it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 12.4; λήθην ἢ συνήθειαν τῶν ἀδικημάτων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.3, compare 60.27; πολλῆς.. σ. ἡ ῥητορική 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 46)]; τῇ σ. τοῦ εἰδώλου by being used to it, [NT (NT.1Cor.8.7)]; practice, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.42.7, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 656d: with Preps., διὰ συνήθειαν [prev. author] “Sph.” 248b)]; διὰ τὴν σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 494b21; ἐκ συνηθείας “OGI” 629.12,79 (Palmyra, 2nd c.AD))]; κατὰ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “R.” [same place]; παρὰ συνήθειαν [prev. author] “Lg.” 655e; ἠναγκάσμεθα ὑπὸ συνηθείας [prev. author] “Tht.” 157b)]; σ. ἔχειν τῇ πολιτείᾳ to be used to it, practised in it, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 39.5.2; σ. κτᾶσθαι πρὸς τὰ κοινά 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.791a.)]
II.2 the customary usage of language, ἐκ σ. ῥημάτων καὶ ὀνομάτων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 168b, compare 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.33)]; εἰς συνήθειαν ἐποίησε τοῦ λόγου τούτου τὴν πόλιν καταστῆναι brought the city to habitual use of this phrase, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.165)]; ἡ σ. τῶν Ἑλλήνων, αἱ κατὰ τὰς διαλέκτους σ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.59 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).237, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 5.2)]; ἐν τῇ τεχνικῇ καὶ μὴ εἰκαίᾳ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Diocles Epigrammaticus 5th c.BC: Magnes Comicus “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 3.214)]: absolutely, ordinary language, ἐν τῇ σ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.22f, compare[prev. work] c, 1113a)]; κατὰ τὴν σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 323.22, compare 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 69, +others, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Amm.” 2.11, 1st c.AD: Herodotus Medicus in “Rh.Mus.” 49.549.)]
III customary gratuity, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (Sammelb. 7336.13 (3rd c.AD), 7369.25 (6th c.AD), “PLond.” 1.113 (3). 11, 3.1036.8 (both 6th c.AD))]: plural, perquisites, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-6th c.AD: Codex Justinianus 3.2.4, 6th c.AD: Justinianus Imperator “Novellae” 134.1, +others)]