Word Summary
synkyria: chance
Original Word: συγκυρίαTransliteration: synkyria
Phonetic Spelling: (soong-koo-ree'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: chance
Meaning: chance
Strong's Concordance
chance.
From a comparative of sun and kureo (to light or happen; from the base of kurios); concurrence, i.e. Accident -- chance.
see GREEK sun
see GREEK kurios
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4795: συγκυρίασυγκυρία,
συγκυριας,
ἡ (
συγκύρειν, to happen, turn out),
accident, chance:
κατά συγκυρίαν, by chance, accidentally,
Luke 10:31. (
Hippocrates; ecclesiastical and Byzantine writings; Greek writings from
Polybius down more common use
συγκυρησις and
συγκυρημα (
Winer's Grammar, 24).)