Bible word study

Syn (Strong’s G4862): Meaning in the Bible

Syn (σύν) is the Greek word numbered G4862 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as with or together (but much closer than G3326 or G3844), i.e. by association, companionship, process, resemblance, possession, instrumentality, addition, etc. In the King James Bible it is translated beside, with..

• Original wordσύν
• Transliterationsýn
• Pronunciationsoon
• Strong’s numberG4862
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primary preposition denoting union;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Syn appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Syn (G4862) stands behind 124 English renderings in 119 verses across 15 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Acts (50), Luke (23), 1 Corinthians (7).

How the King James Bible renders Syn, by count

• with122 of 124 (98 percent)
• also1 of 124 (1 percent)
• live1 of 124 (1 percent)

Three places to read Syn

• Matthew 25:27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
• Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
• Acts 28:16 And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Syn in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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