ΣΥΜΦΟΡΑ, συμφορα
SYMPHORA, symphora
Sounds Like: soom-fo-RAH
Translations: calamity, a calamity, disaster, a disaster, misfortune, a misfortune, adversity, an adversity
From the root: ΣΥΜΦΟΡΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to an unfortunate event or situation, such as a calamity, disaster, or misfortune. It is often used to describe a severe setback or a state of adversity. It is a compound word formed from 'σύν' (syn), meaning 'with' or 'together', and 'φέρω' (pherō), meaning 'to bear' or 'to carry', implying something brought together or borne upon one.
Inflection: Singular or Plural, Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, or Dative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4842 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:24
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 1:42, 6:139
- Book 2 — 3:36
- Book 3 — 8:208, 15:315, 15:316
- Book 5 — 8:250, 8:253, 8:264, 8:312
- Book 6 — 11:205
- Book 7 — 6:118
- Book 10 — 3:43, 11:245
- Book 11 — 3:40
- Book 15 — 5:158
- Book 16 — 3:75
- Book 17 — 1:13
- Book 18 — 9:310, 9:373
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 6:24
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΥΜΦΟΡΑ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΞΥΜΦΟΡΩΝ — of misfortunes, of calamities, of events, of circumstances, of happenings
- ΣΜΦΟΡΑ — misfortune, calamity, disaster, an accident, a misfortune
- ΣΥΜΦΟΡΑΙ — calamities, misfortunes, disasters, events, occurrences
- ΣΥΜΦΟΡΑΙΣ — misfortune, calamity, disaster, an event, an occurrence
- ΣΥΜΦΟΡΑΝ — misfortune, calamity, disaster, an event, an occurrence
- ΣΥΜΦΟΡΑΣ — of misfortune, of calamity, of disaster, of event, of occurrence
- ΣΥΜΦΟΡΑΣΜΗ — misfortune, a misfortune, disaster, calamity, event, occurrence
- ΣΥΜΦΟΡΕΣ — calamities, misfortunes, disasters, events, occurrences
- ΣΥΜΦΟΡΩΝ — of misfortunes, of calamities, of disasters, of events, of circumstances
- ΤΑΙΣΣΥΜΦΟΡΑΙΣ — (to) the misfortunes, (to) the calamities, (to) the events, (to) the circumstances
- ΤΗΣΣΥΜΦΟΡΑΣ — of the misfortune, of the calamity, of the event, of the circumstance
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