Word Summary
aposynagōgos: expelled from the congregation
Original Word: ἀποσυνάγωγοςTransliteration: aposynagōgos
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-os-oon-ag'-o-gos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: expelled from the congregation
Meaning: expelled from the congregation
Strong's Concordance
put out of the synagogues.
From apo and sunagoge; excommunicated -- (put) out of the synagogue(-s).
see GREEK apo
see GREEK sunagoge
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 656: ἀποσυνάγωγοςἀποσυνάγωγος,
ἀποσυναγωγον (
συναγωγή, which see),
excluded from the sacred assemblies of the Israelites; excommunicated, (
A. V. put out of the synagogue):
John 9:22;
John 12:42;
John 16:2. Whether it denotes also exclusion from all contact with Israelites (2 Esdr. 10:8), must apparently be left in doubt; cf.
Winers (or
Riehm) RWB under the word Bann; Wieseler on
Galatians 1:8, p. 45ff (reproduced by Prof. Riddle in Schaff's Lange's Romans, pp. 304-306; cf.
B. D. under the word
). (Not found in secular authors.)