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To flock

συντρέχωStrong’s G4936

suntrechō

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Suntrechō is the Greek word usually translated “ran together” and “running with”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him.”
Mark 6:33 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “ran together” and “running with”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • ran together 2
  • running with 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Mark 1
  • Acts 1
  • 1 Peter 1

3 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

συντρέχω suntrechō · to flock

συν-τρέχω [in LXX: Psa.50:18 (עִם רָצָה), עִם רָצָה), 2Ma.2:1-32, Jdt.4.1-15 * ;] to run together or with: before ἐκεῖ, Mrk.6:33; πρόσ, with accusative, Act.3:11; metaphorically, 1Pe.4:4.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “flock” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FLOCK, noun

[Latin floccus. It is the same radically as flake, and applied to wool or hair, we write it lock. See Flake.]

  1. A company or collection; applied to sheep and other small animals.
  2. A company or collection of fowls of any kind, and when applied to birds on the wing, a flight; as a flock of wild-geese; a flock of ducks; a flock of blackbirds. in the United States, flocks of wild-pigeons sometimes darken the air.
  3. A body or crowd of people. [little used.
  4. A lock of wool or hair.
All definitions and other forms of “flock”

    FLOCK, verb intransitive

    To gather in companies or crowds; applied to men or other animals. People flock together. They flock to the play-house.

      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.