Strong's Greek: 4914. συνήθεια (sunétheia) -- Custom, Habit, Practice

Strong's Lexicon

sunétheia: Custom, Habit, Practice

Original Word: συνείθεια
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: sunétheia
Pronunciation: soo-NAY-thee-ah
Phonetic Spelling: (soon-ay'-thi-ah)
Definition: Custom, Habit, Practice
Meaning: a custom, habit, practice.

Word Origin: Derived from συνήθης (sunéthēs), meaning "accustomed" or "customary," which comes from σύν (syn, "with") and ἦθος (ēthos, "habit" or "custom").

Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: While there is no direct Hebrew equivalent for "sunétheia," the concept of custom or habit can be related to Hebrew terms like חֹק (choq, "statute") or מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat, "judgment" or "ordinance"), which denote established practices or laws.

Usage: The term "sunétheia" refers to a customary practice or habitual behavior. It denotes something that is done regularly or traditionally, often without much thought, due to its established nature. In the New Testament, it is used to describe practices that are part of a community's or individual's routine.

Cultural and Historical Background: In the Greco-Roman world, customs and traditions played a significant role in daily life. These practices were often tied to religious, social, and familial structures. The early Christian communities, emerging from Jewish traditions and interacting with Gentile cultures, had to navigate which customs to retain, modify, or abandon in light of their new faith in Christ.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from sun and éthos
Definition
habit, habitual use
NASB Translation
accustomed (1), custom (1), practice (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 4914: συνήθεια

συνήθεια, συνηθείας, ἡ (συνήθης, and this from σύν and ἦθος), from Isocrates, Xenophon, Plato down, Latinconsuetudo, i. e.

1. contact (with one), intimacy: 4 Macc. 13:21.

2. custom: John 18:39 (cf. Buttmann, § 189, 45); 1 Corinthians 11:16.

3. a being used to: with a genitive of the object to which one is accustomed, 1 Corinthians 8:7 L T Tr WH.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

custom.

From a compound of sun and ethos; mutual habituation, i.e. Usage -- custom.

see GREEK sun

see GREEK ethos

Forms and Transliterations

συνηθεια συνηθείᾳ συνήθεια συνηθειαν συνήθειαν sunetheia sunētheia sunetheian sunētheian synetheia synētheia synḗtheia synetheíāi synētheíāi synetheian synētheian synḗtheian

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