Custom
συνήθειαStrong’s G4914sunētheia
Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament
In short
Sunētheia is the Greek word usually translated “custom”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.
“But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?”
Meaning
Usually translated “custom”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- a custom 1
- by custom 1
- custom 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Corinthians 2
- John 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Corinthians 8:7Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
- 1 Corinthians 11:16But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
Greek dictionary
συνήθεια sunētheia · custom
συνήθεια, -ας, ἡ (ἦθος), [in LXX: 4Ma.2:12 4Mac 6:13 4Mac 13:22 4Mac 13:27 * ;] 1 1 intimacy. 2. habit, custom: Jhn.18:39, 1Co.11:16; with genitive obj. (cf. Æschin., 23, 37, and see MM, xxiv), habitual use, force of habit with respect to, 1Co.8:7.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “custom” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CUSTOM, noun
[Latin]
- Frequent or common use, or practice; a frequent repetition o the same act; hence, way; established manner; habitual practice.“The prists custom with the people was---” 1 Samuel 2:13“We have no such custom” 1 Corinthians 11:16“The customs of the people are vain” Jeremiah 10:3
- A buying of goods; practice of frequenting a shop and purchasing or procuring to be done.
- In law, long established practice, or usage, which constitutes the unwritten law, and long consent to which gives it authority.
All definitions and other forms of “custom”
CUSTOM, verb intransitive
- To make familiar. [See Accustom, which is the word used.]
- To give custom to.
CUSTOM, noun
Tribute, toll or tax; that is, cost or charge paid to the public.
- “Render custom to whom custom is due” Romans 13:7
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.