Word Summary
syntomōs: briefly
Original Word: συντόμωςTransliteration: syntomōs
Phonetic Spelling: (soon-tom'-oce)
Part of Speech: Adverb
Short Definition: briefly
Meaning: briefly
Strong's Concordance
briefly
Adverb from a derivative of suntemno; concisely (briefly) -- a few words.
see GREEK suntemno
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4935: συντόμωςσυντόμως (
συντέμνω) (from
Aeschylus,
Sophocles,
Plato down), adverb,
concisely i. e. briefly, in few words:
ἀκοῦσαι τίνος,
Acts 24:4 (
γράψαι,
Josephus, contra Apion 1, 1;
διδάσκειν, ibid. 1, 6, 2; (
εἰπεῖν, ibid. 2, 14, 1;
ἐξαγγέλλειν,
Mark 16 WH (rejected) 'Shorter Conclusion')); for examples from Greek writings see
Passow (or Liddell and Scott) under the word, at the end.