Synakoloutheo means “follow” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4870 — mishgeh (“oversight”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4870 συνακολουθέω (sunakoloutheo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sunakoloutheo (soon-ak-ol-ou-theh'-o) v. 1. to accompany [from G4862 and G190] It has 4 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include follow and followed. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
sunakoloutheo (soon-ak-ol-ou-theh'-o) v. 1. to accompany [from G4862 and G190] KJV: follow Root(s): G4862, G190
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4870. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to accompany
Usage: συν-ακολουθέω, -ῶ [in LXX: 2Ma.2:4 2Mac 2:6 * ;] to follow along with, accompany: with dative of person(s), Mrk.14:51, Luk.23:49; before μετά, with genitive of person(s), Mrk.5:37.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sunakoloutheo, 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.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4870 (συνακολουθέω) appears 2 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
It was also contained in the same writing, that the prophet, being warned of God, commanded the tabernacle and the ark to go with him, as he went forth into the mountain, where Moses climbed up, and saw the heritage of God.
And some of those that followed him came to mark the way, but they could not find it.
First 4 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4870.
And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
It was also contained in the same writing, that the prophet, being warned of God, commanded the tabernacle and the ark to go with him, as he went forth into the mountain, where Moses climbed up, and saw the heritage of God.
And some of those that followed him came to mark the way, but they could not find it.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4870, grouped by book.
Synakoloutheo (Strong's G4870) is a Greek word most simply glossed "follow". sunakoloutheo (soon-ak-ol-ou-theh'-o) v. 1. to accompany [from G4862 and G190]
This page currently indexes 4 linked usages for Strong's G4870 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4870 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as follow and followed. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4870, with linked reader references where each row is available.