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Greek adjective · G656

ἀποσυνάγωγος

aposynagogosap-os-oon-ag'-o-gos

excommunicated

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

Concordance spelling: aposynágōgos

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G656is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 3
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G656

excommunicated

The King James renders it: (put) out of the synagogue(-s).

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

aposynagogos is rendered "excommunicated". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.

  • Three of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 9:22His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
  • The Greek text spells it three different ways.

The first use

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

John 9:22ἀποσυνάγωγος

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

Where the word stands

Three of the word's three uses are in John.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • expelled from the synagogue1
  • Out of the synagogues1
  • put out of the synagogue1

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.

ἀποστέλλωapostelloto sendUses132
ἀπόστολοςapostolosapostleUses79
ἀποστρέφωapostrephoto turn awayUses9
ἀποστερέωapostereoto defraudUses6
ἀποσπάωapospaoto draw awayUses4
ἀποστολήapostoleapostleshipUses4
ἀποστάσιονapostasiondivorceUses3
ἀποστασίαapostasiaapostasyUses2
ἀποστυγέωapostygeoto abhorUses1
ἀποσκευάζωaposkeuazoto pack upUses1
ἀποσκίασμαaposkiasmashadowUses1
ἀποστεγάζωapostegazoto unroofUses1

and 1 more on the stem.

All 3, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

3 spellings 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

  • ἀποσυνάγωγοι1
  • ἀποσυνάγωγος1
  • ἀποσυναγώγους1

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · accusative (object) · masculine plural1A-APM
  • adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1A-NPM
  • adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1A-NSM

John

three uses
  • His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

    John 9:22

    • ἀποσυνάγωγοςaposunagogosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: expelled from the synagogue
  • Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue.

    John 12:42

    • ἀποσυνάγωγοιaposunagogoiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: put out of the synagogue
  • They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

    John 16:2

    • ἀποσυναγώγουςaposunagogousadjective · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: Out of the synagogues

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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