Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /synaɣoɣí/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /synaɣoʝí/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sinaɣoʝí/

Noun

συναγωγή • ‎(sunagōgḗ) f ‎(genitive συναγωγῆς); first declension

1. gathering, collection
2. a gathering of people, meeting, assembly
3. The place of such an assembly (especially of the Jewish synagogue)
4. a uniting, coupling
5. combination
6. conclusion

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἀρχισῠνᾰ́γωγος ‎(arkhisunágōgos)

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲥⲩⲛⲁⲅⲱⲅⲏ ‎(sunagōgē)
• Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌽𐌰𐌲𐍉𐌲𐌴 ‎(swnagōgē)
• Greek: συναγωγή ‎(synagogí)
• Latin: synagoga
  • Old French: synagoge
    • Dutch: synagoge
    • English: synagogue
    • Ladino: esnoga
  • German: Synagoge
• Russian: синаго́га ‎(sinagóga)

References

• συναγωγή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «συναγωγή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G4864”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • concentration idem, page 154.
  • contraction idem, page 169.
  • shrinkage idem, page 771.
  • unification idem, page 921.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek συναγωγή ‎(sunagōgḗ, “gathering”)

Noun

συναγωγή • ‎(synagogí) f

1. gathering (of people)
2. congregation (religious gathering)
3. synagogue (Jewish place of worship)
4. conclusion (reached by a meeting)

Declension