Synetheia means “custom” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4914 — meshol (“byword”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4914 συνήθεια (sunetheia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sunetheia (soon-ay'-thei-ah) n. 1. mutual habituation, i.e. usage [from a compound of G4862 and G2239] It has 6 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include custom. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
sunetheia (soon-ay'-thei-ah) n. 1. mutual habituation, i.e. usage [from a compound of G4862 and G2239] KJV: custom Root(s): G4862, G2239
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4914. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
custom
Usage: συνήθεια, -ας, ἡ (ἦθος), [in LXX: 4Ma.2:12 4Mac 6:13 4Mac 13:22 4Mac 13:27 * ;] __1 1 intimacy. __2. habit, custom: Jhn.18:39, 1Co.11:16; with genitive obj. (cf. Æschin., 23, 37, and see MM, xxiv), habitual use, force of habit with respect to, 1Co.8:7.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sunetheia, 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 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha and New Testament. 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 G4914 (συνήθεια) appears 4 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.
But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And think it not a strange assertion that reasoning can in behalf of the law conquer even enmity.
partly from the sympathy of acquaintance, and partly in admiration of his endurance, some of the attendants of the king said,
and increase the more powerfully by reason of this simultaneous rearing, and by daily intercourse, and by other education, and exercise in the law of God.
First 6 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4914.
But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
And think it not a strange assertion that reasoning can in behalf of the law conquer even enmity.
partly from the sympathy of acquaintance, and partly in admiration of his endurance, some of the attendants of the king said,
and increase the more powerfully by reason of this simultaneous rearing, and by daily intercourse, and by other education, and exercise in the law of God.
And yet, although nature and intercourse and virtuous morals increased their brotherly love, those who were left endured to behold their brethren, who were ill-used for their religion, tortured even unto death.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4914, grouped by book.
Synetheia (Strong's G4914) is a Greek word most simply glossed "custom". sunetheia (soon-ay'-thei-ah) n. 1. mutual habituation, i.e. usage [from a compound of G4862 and G2239]
This page currently indexes 6 linked usages for Strong's G4914 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4914 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as custom. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4914, with linked reader references where each row is available.