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συνωμοσία

synōmosía · G4945 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. conspiracy, plot

    A plan for taking secret action against someone or some institution, with the implication of an oath binding the conspirators

    Examples

    Acts 23:13 There were more than forty who formed this plot.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Near synonyms 1 word
ἐπιβουλή epiboulḗ · G1917 · plot, plan, scheme
Greek noun for plot/conspiracy, often used in NT for schemes against Paul (Acts 9:24, 20:3, 19, 23:30); both denote deliberate plotting, though ἐπιβουλή emphasizes the strategic design aspect while συνωμοσία emphasizes the oath-bound agreement among conspirators
In the other Testament 1 word
קֶשֶׁר qesher · H7195 · conspiracy, plot
Hebrew noun for conspiracy/plot, the standard translation equivalent for συνωμοσία in LXX contexts (e.g., 2 Kings 12:20, 15:15, 30; Jeremiah 11:9)
Semantic domains 1 entry
Conspiracy, plot30.73
Luke records regarding those seeking to kill Paul, “There were more than forty who formed this plot” (Acts 23:13).
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ὀμνύω omnýō · G3660 · to swear, to make an oath, oath · 26×συνωμοσίαsynōmosía · G4945
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon συνωμοσιας, ἡ (συνόμνυμι), from Aristophanes and Thucydides down, a swearing together; a…
συνωμοσιας, ἡ (συνόμνυμι), from Aristophanes and Thucydides down, a swearing together; a conspiracy: συνωμοσίαν ποιεῖν (see ποιέω, L 1 c., p. 525a top), Acts 23:13 Rec.; ποιεῖσθαι (see ποιέω, I. 3), ibid. L T Tr WH.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
To Intend, To Purpose, To Plan1 occurrence

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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