Word Summary
synantaō: to meet with, to befall
Original Word: συναντάωTransliteration: synantaō
Phonetic Spelling: (soon-an-tah'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to meet with, to befall
Meaning: to meet with, to befall
Strong's Concordance
happen, meet.
From sun and a derivative of anti; to meet with; figuratively, to occur -- befall, meet.
see GREEK sun
see GREEK anti
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4876: συναντάωσυναντάω,
συνάντω: future
συναντήσω; 1 aorist
συνήντησα; from
Homer down; the
Sept. for
פָּגַע ,
פָּגַשׁ,
קָרָה,
קִדֵּם, etc.;
to meet with:
τίνι,
Luke 9:37. (
Luke 9:18 WH marginal reading);
; Acts 10:25; Hebrews 7:1 (cf. Buttmann, 293 (252)), 10; tropical of events, to happen, to befall: Acts 20:22 (Plutarch, Sulla 2; middle τά συναντωμενα, Polybius 22, 7, 14; the Hebrew קָרָה also is used of events, Ecclesiastes 2:14; Ecclesiastes 9:11; etc.).