Quick Definition
a company traveling together, a caravan
Strong's Definition
companionship on a journey, i.e. (by implication), a caravan
Derivation: from a compound of G4862 (σύν) and G3598 (ὁδός) ("synod");
KJV Usage: company
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
συνοδία, συνοδίας, ἡ (σύνοδος), a journey in company; by metonymy, a company of travelers, associates on a journey, a caravan (A. V. company): Luk_2:44. (Strabo, Plutarch (Epictetus, Josephus; ξυνοδεια, Gen_37:25 manuscript Venet. equivalent to family, Neh_7:5; Neh_7:64, the Sept.), others.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
συνοδία synodia 1x
pr. a journeying together; meton. a company of fellow travellers, caravan, Luk_2:44
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
συνοδία , -ας , ἡ ,
[in LXX : Neh_7:5 ; Neh_7:64 ( H3187 ) * ;]
1. a journey in company ( Plut ., al. ).
2. By meton ., κ company of travellers, a caravan: Luk_2:44 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
συνοδία [page 610]
a company of travellers, is found in the NT only in Luk_2:44 . For συνοδείτης cf. BGU IV. 1137 .9 (B.C. 6) ὑπὲρ Συντρόφου το̣υ̣̑ Κ̣α̣ι̣σ̣α̣ρ̣ο̣ς̣ συνοδε̣ι̣του , P Lond 1178 .41 (A.D. 194) (= III. p. 217, Selections , p. 99) γεινώσκετε ] ὄν̣τα [ἡμῶν ] συνοδείτην Ἑρμεῖνον , where the reference is to the adoption of Herminus as the member of a gymnastic club, and Preisigke 4549 .10 (A.D. 226), where an inscr. dealing with a cult assembly ends τὸ προσκύνημα [τῆς ] συνόδου καὶ τῶν συνοδειτῶν καὶ τοῦ γράψαντος . See also Kaibel 613 .3 (ii/A.D.)
Ἤμην ποτὲ μουσικὸς ἀνήρ ,
ποιητὴς καὶ κιθαριστής ,
μάλιστα δὲ καὶ συνοδείτης .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
συνοδία συνοδία, ἡ, "a journey in company", Cic. "a party of travellers, caravan", Strab. , NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
συνοδία, -ας, ἡ
[in LXX: Neh.7:5, 64 (יָחַשׂ) * ;]
__1. a journey in company (Plut., al.).
__2. By meton., κ company of travellers, a caravan: Luk.2:44.†
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