To meet
συναντάωStrong’s G4876sunantaō
Appears in 6 verses of the New Testament
In short
Sunantaō is the Greek word usually translated “having met”, “met” and “meet”. It appears in 6 verses of the New Testament.
“And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, much people met him.”
Meaning
Usually translated “having met”, “met” and “meet”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- having met 2
- met 1
- will meet 1
- will happen 1
- he met 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 2
- Acts 2
- Hebrews 2
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Luke 22:10And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in.
- Acts 10:25And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
- Acts 20:22And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
- Hebrews 7:1For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
- Hebrews 7:10For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
Greek dictionary
συναντάω sunantaō · to meet
συν-αντάω, -ῶ [in LXX for פָּגַע, פָּגַשׁ, קָרָא, קָרָה, etc. ;] to meet with: with dative of person(s), Luk.9:18, 37 22:10, Act.10:25, Heb.7:1, 10. Metaphorical, of events, to happen, befall (Ding. L., Plut., al.): Act.20:22.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “happen” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HAP'PEN, verb intransitive
hap'n.
- To come by chance; to come without one's previous expectation; to fall out.“There shall no evil happen to the just” Proverbs 12:21
- To come; to befall.“They talked together of all those things which had happened” Luke 24:14
- To light; to fall or come unexpectedly.
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.