Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
Syrian
Usage: Σύρος, -ου, ὁ, fem. Σύρα a Syrian: Luk.4:27, Mrk.7:26, WH, mg.† (AS)
Syros means “Syrian” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4948 — mishqal in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4948 Σύρος (Suros) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. Suros (soo'-ros) n/g. 1. a Syran (i.e. probably Tyrian), a native of Syria [probably of Hebrew origin (H6865)] It has 29 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include syrian. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Suros (soo'-ros) n/g. 1. a Syran (i.e. probably Tyrian), a native of Syria [probably of Hebrew origin (H6865)] KJV: Syrian Root(s): H6865 See also: G4947
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Syrian
Usage: Σύρος, -ου, ὁ, fem. Σύρα a Syrian: Luk.4:27, Mrk.7:26, WH, mg.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Suros, 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 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament 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 G4948 (Σύρος) appears 32 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
28 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
May God make room for Japheth, And let him dwell in the habitations of Shem, And let Canaan be his servant.
Uz the firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of the Syrians, and Chesed, and
Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Syrian, out of Syrian Mesopotamia, sister of Laban the Syrian.
First 29 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4948.
May God make room for Japheth, And let him dwell in the habitations of Shem, And let Canaan be his servant.
Uz the firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of the Syrians, and Chesed, and
Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Syrian, out of Syrian Mesopotamia, sister of Laban the Syrian.
So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went into Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah the mother of Jacob and Esau.
And Jacob started and went to the land of the east to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Syrian, and the brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau.
And Jacob hid the matter from Laban the Syrian, so as not to tell him that he ran away.
But it was told Laban the Syrian on the third day, that Jacob was fled.
And God came to Laban the Syrian in sleep by night, and said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not at any time to Jacob evil things.
And there was there on that day one of Saul’s servants detained before the Lord, and his name was Doeg the Syrian, tending the mules of Saul.
And Doeg the Syrian who was over the mules of Saul answered and said, I saw the son of Jesse as he came to Nob to Ahimelech son of Ahitub the priest.
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests: and Doeg the Syrian turned, and slew the priests of the Lord in that day, three hundred and five men, all wearing an ephod.
And David said to Abiathar, I knew it in that day, that Doeg the Syrian would surely tell Saul: I am guilty of the death of the house of thy father.
And Syria of Damascus comes to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, and David smote twenty-two thousand men belonging to the Syrian.
And David placed a garrison in Syria near Damascus, and the Syrians became servants and tributaries to David: and the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.
And Gehazi the servant of Elisha said, Behold, my Lord has spared this Syrian Naaman, so as not to take of his hand what he has brought: as the Lord lives, I will surely run after him, and take somewhat of him.
And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of the Syrians in Ramoth-gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
And King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, in his war with Hazael king of Syria. And Jehu said, If your heart is with me, let there not go forth out of the city one fugitive to go and report to Jezreel.
And the Syrian came from Damascus to help Hadadezer king of Zobah; and David smote of the Syrian army twenty and two thousand men.
And Joab saw that they were fronting him to fight against him before and behind, and he chose some out of all the young men of Israel, and they set themselves in array against the Syrian.
And he said, If the Syrian should prevail against me, then shalt thou deliver me: and if the children of Ammon should prevail against thee, then will I deliver thee.
And the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians fled, and they also fled from before Abishai, and from before Joab his brother, and they came to the city: and Joab came to Jerusalem.
And the Syrian saw that Israel had defeated him, and he sent messengers, and they brought out the Syrians from beyond the river; and Shophach the commander-in-chief of the forces of Hadadezer was before them.
And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and crossed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So David set his army in array to fight against the Syrians, and they fought against him.
And the Syrians fled from before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand riders in chariots, and forty thousand infantry, and he slew Shophach the commander-in-chief of the forces.
And the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, and they made peace with David and served him: and the Syrians would not anymore help the children of Ammon.
And Joram returned to Jezreel to be healed of the wounds wherewith the Syrians smote him in Ramoth, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram the son of Ahab at Jezreel because he was sick.
And she shall no longer be a strong place for Ephraim to flee to, and there shall no longer be a kingdom in Damascus, or a remnant of Syrians; for thou art no better than the children of Israel, even than their glory; thus saith the Lord of hosts.
Are not ye to me as the sons of the Ethiopians, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Did I not bring Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of the deep?
And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4948, grouped by book.
Syros (Strong's G4948) is a Greek word most simply glossed "Syrian". Suros (soo'-ros) n/g. 1. a Syran (i.e. probably Tyrian), a native of Syria [probably of Hebrew origin (H6865)]
This page currently indexes 29 linked usages for Strong's G4948 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4948 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as syrian. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 28 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G4948, with linked reader references where each row is available.