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Greek noun (feminine) · G4858

συμφωνία

symphoniasoom-fo-nee'-ah

symphony, music; a musical instrument (Polyb., al.

1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: symphōnía

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4858is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

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    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G4858

unison of sound ("symphony"), i.e. a concert of instruments (harmonious note)

The King James renders it: music.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

symphonia is rendered "symphony, music; a musical instrument (Polyb., al.". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.

  • One of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "symphony, music".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 15:25Meanwhile the older son was in the field, and as he approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

The first use

Meanwhile the older son was in the field, and as he approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

Luke 15:25συμφωνίας

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: symphony, music, and a musical instrument (Polyb., al..

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
symphony, musicLuk.15:25Tagged as
  • music1
WhereLuke 15:25Meanwhile the older son was in the field, and as he approached the house…
a musical instrument (Polyb., al.Da, ll. withTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

συμφέρωsympherobe profitableUses17
συμφωνέωsymphoneoto agree withUses6
συμφύωsymphyoto grow withUses1
σύμφημιsymphemito agreeUses1
σύμφυτοςsymphytosunitedUses1
σύμφωνοςsymphonosmutual consentUses1
συμφυλέτηςsymphyletesfellow countrymanUses1
συμφώνησιςsymphonesisharmonyUses1

All 1, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • συμφωνίας1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF

Luke

one use
  • Meanwhile the older son was in the field, and as he approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

    Luke 15:25

    • συμφωνίαςsumphoniasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: music

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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