To bend
συγκάμπτωStrong’s G4781sugkamptō
Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament
In short
Sugkamptō is the Greek word usually translated “do bend over”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.
“Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.”
Meaning
Usually translated “do bend over”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- do bend over 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Romans 1
1 book in all.
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Greek dictionary
συγκάμπτω sugkamptō · to bend
συν-κάμπτω (Rec. συγκ-), [in LXX: Psa.68:10, 23 (מעד hi.), etc. ;] to bend completely, bend together: τ. νῶτον, figuratively, Rom.11:10 (LXX).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bend” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEND, verb intransitive
To be crooked; to crook, or be curving.
- To incline; to lean or turn; as, a road bends to the west.
- To jut over; as a bending cliff.
- To resolve, or determine.[See Bent on.]
- To bow or be submissive.
All definitions and other forms of “bend”
BEND,noun
A curve; a crook; a turn in a road or river; flexure; incurvation.
- In marine language, that part of a rope which is fastened to another or to an anchor. [See To bend No.8.]
- Bends of a ship, are the thickest and strongest planks in her sides, more generally called wales.
- In heraldry, one of the nine honorable ordinaries, containing a third part of the field, when charged, and a fifth, when plain.
BEND, noun
A band. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.