Syncheo means “commingle promiscuously” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4797 — mirzach (“banquet”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4797 συγχέω (sugcheo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sugcheo (soong-kheh'-o) (or sugchuno soong-khoo'-no) v. 1. to commingle promiscuously 2. (figuratively) to throw (an assembly) into disorder, to perplex (the mind) It has 20 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include assembly. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
sugcheo (soong-kheh'-o) (or sugchuno soong-khoo'-no) v. 1. to commingle promiscuously 2. (figuratively) to throw (an assembly) into disorder, to perplex (the mind) [from G4862 and cheo "to pour" or its alternate] KJV: confound, confuse, stir up, be in an uproar Root(s): G4862
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to confound
Usage: συν-χέω (Rec. συγ-), [in LXX for בָּלַל, רָגַז, etc. ;] to pour together, commingle, confuse; metaphorically, confound, throw into confusion, stir up trouble: Act.21:27 (cf. συν-χύννω).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sugcheo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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Strong's G4797 (συγχέω) appears 15 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused: and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.
10 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.
On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.
And Samuel was offering the whole burnt offering; and the Philistines drew near to war against Israel; and the Lord thundered with a mighty sound in that day upon the Philistines, and they were confounded and overthrown before Israel.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
who, when he heard thereof, was confounded and discouraged, because neither such things as he would were done unto Israel, nor such things as the king commanded him were come to pass.
and took Maccabeus between them, and covered him on every side with their weapons, and kept him safe, but shot arrows and lightnings against the enemies: so that being confounded with blindness, and full of trouble, they were killed.
heard that Philip, who was left over the affairs in Antioch, was desperately bent, confounded, entreated the Jews, submitted himself, and swore to all equal conditions, agreed with them, and offered sacrifice, honored the temple, and dealt kindly with the place,
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4797.
Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.
On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.
And Samuel was offering the whole burnt offering; and the Philistines drew near to war against Israel; and the Lord thundered with a mighty sound in that day upon the Philistines, and they were confounded and overthrown before Israel.
And the king of Israel departed confounded and discouraged, and came to Samaria.
Sound the trumpet in Zion, make a proclamation in my holy mountain, and let all the inhabitants of the land be confounded: for the day of the Lord is near;
Before them the earth shall be confounded, and the sky shall be shaken: the sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light.
I will crush and smite the turreted house upon the summerhouse; and the ivory houses shall be destroyed, and many other houses also, saith the Lord.
But Jonah was very deeply grieved, and he was confounded.
They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of thee.
in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightnings.
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused: and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.
And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
who, when he heard thereof, was confounded and discouraged, because neither such things as he would were done unto Israel, nor such things as the king commanded him were come to pass.
and took Maccabeus between them, and covered him on every side with their weapons, and kept him safe, but shot arrows and lightnings against the enemies: so that being confounded with blindness, and full of trouble, they were killed.
heard that Philip, who was left over the affairs in Antioch, was desperately bent, confounded, entreated the Jews, submitted himself, and swore to all equal conditions, agreed with them, and offered sacrifice, honored the temple, and dealt kindly with the place,
When this came to Nicanor’s hearing, he was much confounded in himself, and took it grievously that he should make void the articles which were agreed upon, the man being in no fault.
Moreover, the nations in their wicked conspiracy being confounded, She found out the righteous, and preserved him blameless unto God, And kept him strong against his tender compassion toward his son.
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Syncheo (Strong's G4797) is a Greek word most simply glossed "commingle promiscuously". sugcheo (soong-kheh'-o) (or sugchuno soong-khoo'-no) v. 1. to commingle promiscuously 2. (figuratively) to throw (an assembly) into disorder, to perplex (the mind)
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's G4797 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4797 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as assembly. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 10 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4797, with linked reader references where each row is available.