synantaō · meet

What it means

synantaō (συναντάω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “meet”.

Go to meet someone; of events, happen to someone.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Go toward someone coming; come across them.
2. Happen to someone.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• met ×4
• will happen ×1
• will meet ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Luke×2
• Acts×2
• Hebrews×2

• Luke 9:37

  And it happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a large crowd met him.

• Luke 22:10

  And he said to them, “Look, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you; follow him into the house into which he enters.

• Acts 10:25

  And when it happened that Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell at his feet, and bowed down before him.

• Acts 20:22

  And now look, bound in the spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there,

• Hebrews 7:1

  For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him,

• Hebrews 7:10

  for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.