συγκυρία
synkyría · G4795 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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by coincidence, it so happened that
An unexpected coincidence of events
ExamplesLuke 10:31 “And by coincidence a priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κατάaccording to, against, down 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Contrasting words 1 word
- πρόνοια prónoia · G4307 · to give attention beforehand, to have in mind to do, foresight
- Lexical opposite: συγκυρία denotes accidental, unplanned concurrence, while πρόνοια denotes deliberate forethought or providential arrangement—the planned versus the unplanned
In the other Testament 1 word
- מִקְרֶה miqreh · H4745 · accident, fate, destiny
- Hebrew noun denoting an accidental occurrence or chance event; direct translation equivalent used in contexts of unexpected happenstance, matching the semantic range of συγκυρία
Semantic domains 1 entry
- By coincidence, it so happened that13.116
- The noun marks an event as happening by unplanned circumstance rather than design. Jesus tells the parable, “by coincidence a priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side” (Luke 10:31).
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon συγκυριας, ἡ (συγκύρειν, to happen, turn out), accident, chance: κατά συγκυρίαν, by…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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