2001 Translation

SYNESEI, synesei

Sounds Like: soon-EH-see

Translations: understanding, (to) understanding, (to) insight, (to) intelligence, (to) wisdom, (to) discernment

From the root: ΣΥΝΕΣΙΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the faculty of understanding, insight, or intelligence. It describes the ability to comprehend and discern, often implying practical wisdom or good judgment. It is used in contexts where mental capacity or comprehension is being discussed.

Inflection: Singular, Dative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G4907 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 10:1

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 16:12, 33:3

Codex Sinaiticus

• Proverbs — 2:3
• Job — 34:35, 39:17
• Wisdom — 9:5
• Sirach — 10:3, 14:20, 19:24, 25:2, 44:3, 44:4, 47:23
• Colossians — 1:9
• Epistle of Barnabas — 10:1

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 5:63, 5:86
• Book 4 — 8:328
• Book 6 — 1:10
• Book 8 — 2:42, 6:167
• Book 12 — 6:283
• Book 15 — 3:58

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 21:39
• Book Three — 2:3
• Book Four — 6:21
• Book Five — 6:43

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 13:7

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 2:8

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 1:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Samuel — 25:3
• Judith — 11:21
• Psalms — 77:72, 135:5
• Proverbs — 2:3
• Job — 34:35, 39:17
• Wisdom — 9:5
• Sirach — 5:10, 10:3, 14:20, 19:24, 25:2, 44:3, 44:4, 47:23
• Isaiah — 53:11
• Jeremiah — 28:15
• Baruch — 3:32
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 1:20

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 1 — 3:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 2:47
• Colossians — 1:9

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΥΝΕΣΙΣ.

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.

• ΚΑΙΣΥΝΕΣΕΩΣ — and understanding, and a discernment, and an insight, and a comprehension, and of understanding, and of discernment, and of insight, and of comprehension
• ΝΕΣΙΝ — understanding, a understanding, insight, a insight, knowledge, a knowledge, (to) understanding, (to) insight, (to) knowledge
• ΣΥΝΕΣ — understanding, discernment, insight, intelligence, a discernment
• ΣΥΝΕΣΕΣΙ — to understanding, for understanding, in understanding, with understanding, to insight, for insight, in insight, with insight
• ΣΥΝΕΣΕΩΣ — of understanding, of insight, of comprehension, of intelligence, of wisdom
• ΣΥΝΕΣΙ — understanding, a understanding, insight, a insight, comprehension, a comprehension, wisdom, a wisdom
• ΣΥΝΕΣΙΝ — understanding, intelligence, discernment, an understanding, an intelligence, a discernment
• ΣΥΝΕΣΙΣ — understanding, an understanding, intelligence, an intelligence, discernment, a discernment, insight, an insight
• ΣΥΝΩΣΙΝ — understanding, comprehension, insight, an understanding, a comprehension, an insight
• ΩΣΣΥΝΕΣΙΝ — understanding, an understanding, insight, intelligence, comprehension

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