Word Summary
syngnōmē: confession, fellow feeling
Original Word: συγγνώμηTransliteration: syngnōmē
Phonetic Spelling: (soong-gno'-may)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: confession, fellow feeling
Meaning: confession, fellow feeling
Strong's Concordance
concession, permission.
From a compound of sun and ginosko; fellow knowledge, i.e. Concession -- permission.
see GREEK sun
see GREEK ginosko
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4774: συγγνώμησυγγνώμη (
T WH συγγνώμη, cf.
σύν, II. at the end),
συγγνωμης,
ἡ (
συγγιγνώσκω, to agree with, to pardon; see
γνώμη), from (
Sophocles and)
Herodotus down,
pardon, indulgence:
κατά συγγνώμην,
οὐ κατ' ἐπιταγήν, by way of concession or permission, not by way of command,
1 Corinthians 7:6.