συνέχω

συνέχω — synéchō

συνέχω; future συνεξω; 2 aorist συνέσχον; passive present συνέχομαι; imperfect συνειχομην; from Homer down;

1. to hold together; any whole, lest it fall to pieces or something fall away from it: τό συνέχον τά πάντα, the deity as holding all things together, Wis 1:7 (see Grimm at the passage).

2. to hold together with constraint, to compress, i. e., a. to press together with the hand: τά ὦτα, to stop the ears, Act 7:57 (τό στόμα, Isa 52:15; τόν οὐρανόν, to shut, that it may not rain, Deu 11:17; 1Ki 8:35).

b. to press on every side: τινα, Luk 8:45; with πάντοθεν added, of a besieged city, Luk 19:43.

3. to hold completely, i. e.

a. to hold fast : properly, a prisoner, Luk 22:63 (τά αἰχμάλωτα, Lucian, Tox. 39); metaphorically, in the passive, to be held by, closely occupied with, any business (Wis 17:19 (20); Herodian, 1, 17, 22 (9 edition, Bekker); Aelian v. h. 14, 22): τῷ λόγῳ, in teaching the word, Act 18:5 G L T Tr WH (here R. V. constrained by). β. to constrain, oppress, of ills laying hold of one and distressing him; passive, to be holden with equivalent to afflicted with, suffering from": νόσοις, Mat 4:24; πυρετῷ, Luk 4:38; δυσεντερίῳ, Act 28:8 (many examples from Greek writings from Aeschylus and Herodotus down are given in Passow, under the word συνέχω, I. a.; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, I. 4)); of affections of the mind: φόβῳ, Luk 8:37 (ὀδύρμω, Aelian v. h. 14, 22; ἀλγηδονι, Plutarch, de fluv. 2, 1; ἀθυμία, ibid. 7, 5; 19, 1; λύπη, 17, 3; for other examples see Grimm on Wis 17:10). γ. to urge, impel: tropically, the soul, ἡ ἀγάπη... συνέχει ἡμᾶς, 2Co 5:14 (A. V. constraineth); πῶς (how greatly, how sorely) συνέχομαι, Luk 12:50 (A. V. straitened); τῷ πνεύματι, Act 18:5 Rec. συνέχομαι ἐκ τῶν δύο, I am hard pressed on both sides, my mind is impelled or disturbed from each side (R. V. I am in a strait betwixt the two), Php 1:23.