Quick Definition
a custom, habit
Strong's Definition
mutual habituation, i.e. usage
Derivation: from a compound of G4862 (σύν) and G2239 (ἦθος);
KJV Usage: custom
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
συνήθεια, συνηθείας, ἡ (συνήθης, and this from σύν and ἦθος), from Isocrates, Xenophon, Plato down, Latinconsuetudo, i. e.
1. contact (with one), intimacy: 4Ma_13:21.
2. custom: Joh_18:39 (cf. Buttmann, § 189, 45); 1Co_11:16.
3. a being used to: with a genitive of the object to which one is accustomed, 1Co_8:7 L T Tr WH.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
συνήθεια synētheia 3x
use, custom; an established custom, practice, Joh_18:39 ; 1Co_8:7 ; 1Co_11:16
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** συνήθεια , -ας , ἡ
( < ἦθος ),
[in LXX : 4Ma_2:12 ; 4Ma_6:13 ; 4Ma_13:22 ; 4Ma_13:27 * ;]
1 intimacy .
2. habit, custom: Joh_18:39 , 1Co_11:16 ; c . gen . obj . ( cf. Ζschin., 23, 37, and v. MM , xxiv), habitual use, force of habit with respect to, 1Co_8:7 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
συνήθεια [page 607]
(1) intimacy, friendship, as in 4Ma_2:12 al ., P Cairo Zen I. 59042 2 (B.C. 257) Ἀλέξανδρος . . οἰκεῖος καὶ αὐτῶι δέ μ̣[οί εἰσι συ ]νήθειαι , P Amh II. 145 .9 (iv/v A.D.) τὸ γνωστὸν τῆς πρὸς ἀλ [λήλο ]υς συνηθείας , the knowledge of our intimacy.
(2) habit, custom, as in Joh_18:39 , P Fay 118 .14 (A.D. 110) οἶς ἔχομον συνήθιαν πέμπιν , for the persons we are accustomed to send them to (Edd.), P Tebt II. 287 .5 (A.D. 161 9) κατὰ τὸν [γν ]ώμονα καὶ τὴν συνήθειαν , according to tariff and custom (Edd.), ib . 376 .19 (A.D. 162) ἀκολούθως τῇ τῶν ἀρουρῶν [συν ]ηθείᾳ , in accordance with the custom of the land, P Fay 34 .10 (A.D. 161) τὴν τῶν προτέρων ἐτῶν συνήθειαν , and Syll 418 (= 3 888) 154 (A.D. 238) κατωλιγωρήθη διὰ τὴν συνήθειαν τῆς τοιαύτης ἐνοχλήσεως . Cf. PSI I. 50 .6 (iv/v A.D.) κατὰ συνήθι [α ]ν .
For a technical use of συνήθειαι . to denote customary gifts to officials, see Chrest . I. 283 (vi/A.D. and the numerous citations in Preisigke Wφrterb . s.v .
A few exx. may be given of the adj. συνήθης P Tebt II. 294 .17 (A.D. 146) ταῖς συνήθεσι προθεσμίαις , at the accustomed dates, P Oxy XIV. 1692 .11 (A.D. 188) μεταφορὰ τούτου εἰς τὸν συνήθη τόπον , P Fay 38 .3 (iii/iv A.D.) φροντίσατε ἐξαυτῆς τὴν συνήθη παραφυλακὴν γείνεσθαι , see that you at once provide the necessary guard, and Kaibel 1002 .2 ὡς συνήθεις καὶ φίλους ἠσπάζετο . For the adv. see P Amh II. 70 i. 8 ( c . A.D. 115) τὸ συνήθω [ς ] διδόμ [ε ]ν [ο ]ν .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
συνήθεια συνήθεια, ἡ, [Etym: συνήθης] "habitual intercourse, acquaintance, society, intimacy", Lat. consuetudo, Aeschin. , etc. "habit, custom, habituation", Hhymn. , Plat. : c. gen., ἔργου "habituation" to a thing, Dem. "the customary use" of a phrase, Aeschin.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
συνήθεια, -ας, ἡ
(ἦθος), [in LXX: 4Ma.2:12 4Mac 6:13 4Mac 13:22 4Mac 13:27 * ;]
__1 1 intimacy.
__2. habit, custom: Jhn.18:39, 1Co.11:16; with genitive obj. (cf. Æschin., 23, 37, and see MM, xxiv), habitual use, force of habit with respect to, 1Co.8:7.†
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