Strong's Number 4912
Transliteration:
sunecho
{soon-ekh'-o}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
7:877,1117
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage in the KJV:
be taken with 3, throng 1, straiten 1, keep in 1, hold 1, stop 1, press 1, lie sick of 1, constrain 1, be in a strait 1
Total: 12
Definition:
- to hold together
- any whole, lest it fall to pieces or something fall away from it
- to hold together with constraint, to compress
- to press together with the hand
- to hold one's ears, to shut the heavens that it may not rain
- to press on every side
- of a besieged city
- of a strait, that forces a ship into a narrow channel
- of a cattle squeeze, that pushing in on each side, forcing the beast into a position where it cannot move so the farmer can administer medication
- to hold completely
- to hold fast
- of a prisoner
- metaph.
- to be held by, closely occupied with any business
- in teaching the word
- to constrain, oppress, of ills laying hold of one and distressing him
- to be held with, afflicted with, suffering from
- to urge, impel
- of the soul