Lexical Summary synētheia: habit, habitual use Original Word: συνήθειαTransliteration: synētheia Phonetic Spelling: (soon-ay'-thi-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: habit, habitual use Meaning: habit, habitual use Strong's Concordance custom. From a compound of sun and ethos; mutual habituation, i.e. Usage -- custom. see GREEK sun see GREEK ethos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4914: συνήθειασυνήθεια, συνηθείας, ἡ (συνήθης, and this from σύν and ἦθος), from Isocrates, Xenophon, Plato down, Latinconsuetudo, i. e. 1. contact (with one), intimacy: 4 Macc. 13:21. 2. custom: John 18:39 (cf. Buttmann, § 189, 45); 1 Corinthians 11:16. 3. a being used to: with a genitive of the object to which one is accustomed, 1 Corinthians 8:7 L T Tr WH. |
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