Word Summary
synalizomai: to assemble with
Original Word: συναλίζομαιTransliteration: synalizomai
Phonetic Spelling: (soon-al-id'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to assemble with
Meaning: to assemble with
Strong's Concordance
assemble
From sun and halizo (to throng); to accumulate, i.e. Convene -- assemble together.
see GREEK sun
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4871: συναλίζωσυναλίζω: (
σύν, and
ἁλίζω from
ἁλής, crowded, in a mass; (cf.
ἅλυσις, at the beginning));
to gather together; assemble; passive present participle
συναλιζόμενος;
to be assembled, meet with:
τίνι, with one,
Acts 1:4, where
αὐτοῖς is to be supplied. (
Herodotus,
Xenophon, (
Plutarch, de placit. phil. 902),
Josephus,
Lucian,
Jamblichus.) (Bat Meyer defends the rendering given by some of the ancient versions (cf.
Tdf.s note at the passage)
eating with (deriving the word from
συναλος), so
A. V. and
R. V. marginal reading; such passages as
Manetho 5, 339; Clement, hom. 13, 4 (although Dressel after manuscript Ottob. reads here
συναυλίζω — yet the recogn. 7, 29 renders
cibum sumimus);
Chrysostom 3:88 c. (edited by Migne 3:1:104 middle); 89 a. (ibid. bottom); 91 d. (ibid. 107 middle), seem to give warrant for this interpretation; cf. Valckenaer, Opuscc. ii, p. 277f. But see at length Woolsey in the Bib. Sacr. for Oct. 1882, pp. 605-618.)