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Strong's #4900 - συνελαύνω
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- to drive together, compel
- to constrain by extortion, urge
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συνελαύνω,
fut. -ελάσω [ᾰ ]: aor. συνέλασσα: pf. part. συνεληλάμενος Arat. 176 (on the accent, v. A.D. Adv. 135.5, al.), but συνεληλαμένος Plb. 4.48.2, Aret. SA 2.1: plpf. -ηλάσμην LXX 2 Maccabees 4:26 : aor. Pass. -ηλάσθην Plb. 18.22.6, LXX 2 Maccabees 5:5, Plu. Caes. 17, BGU 1568.7 (iii A.D.). Used by Hom. only in pres. and aor. (exc. σὺν δ' ἤλασε in tmesi); he uses the form ξυν- where required by the metre: —
drive together, ληΐδα δ' ἐκ πεδίου συνελάσσαμεν Il. 11.677; τὰς μὲν [βοῦς] συνέλασσεν ἐς αὔλιον h.Merc. 106, cf. X. Cyr. 1.4.14; σὺν δ' ἤλασ' ὀδόντας drove his teeth together, Od. 18.98; hammer together, Plu. 2.567e; weld iron, Hp. Vict. 1.13; draw together, συνέλασσε κάρη χεῖράς τε h.Merc. 240; drive, force, τινὰ εἰς ὀλοὴν κῆρα AP 7.614.10 (Agath.), cf. Jul. 89b; ς. εἰς στενόν Luc. Herm. 63: — Pass., to be driven or forced into a contracted space, compressed, Epicur. Ephesians 2 p.50U., Plb. 4.48.2, Placit. 4.1.4; εἰς βραχὺ διάζωμα ς. to be contracted into.., Plu. Phoc. 13: metaph., εἰς ἀπορίαν ἐσχάτην ἡ σωτηρία συνηλάθη Chor. p.226 B.; συνεληλαμένοι σφυγμοί Aret. SA 2.1.
2. constrain, force, τινὰ ἀποστῆναι τῶν οὐ δικαίως αὐτῷ προσηκόντων Sammelb. 5357.11 (v A.D.); ς. τινὰ πρὸς εὐγνωμοσύνην bring him to reason, ib. 13 (Pass.), cf. PLond. 5.1711.60 (vi A.D.); εἰς τέλος ς. bring to an end, PMonac. 13.70 (vi A.D.).
II match in combat, set to fight, θεοὺς ἔριδι ξυνελάσσαι Il. 20.134; θεοὺς ἔριδι ξυνελαύνεις 21.394: abs., ξυνελάσσομεν ὦκα Od. 18.39.
2. intr., ἔριδι ξυνελαυνέμεν meet in quarrel, Il. 22.129.
συναλλάσσω: (see καταλλάσσω); to reconcile (Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, Dio Cassius; in different senses by different secular authors): συνήλλασσεν αὐτούς εἰς εἰρήνην (Vulg. reconciliabat, i. e. sought to reconcile), conative imperfect (cf. Buttmann, 205 (178); R. V. would have set them at one again), Acts 7:26 L T Tr WH (see συνελαύνω).
STRONGS NT 4900: συνελαύνω συνελαύνω: 1 aorist συνήλασα; from Homer down; to drive together, to compel; tropically, to constrain by exhortation, urge: τινα εἰς εἰρήνην, to be at peace again, Acts 7:26 R G (εἰς τόν τῆς σοφίας ἐρωτᾷ, Aelian v. h. 4, 15).
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** συν -ελαύνω ,
[in LXX: 2 Maccabees 4:26; 2 Maccabees 4:42; 2 Maccabees 5:5 *;]
to drive together, force together: εἰς εἰρήνην , Acts 7:26, Rec. (WH, RV, συνήλλασσεν ).†
* συν -αλλάσσω ,
to reconcile: impf. (conative, v. M, Pr., 129), Acts 7:26.†
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This feminine name (Acts 9:36; Acts 9:40) under the form Ταβιθά is attested by Preisigke (Namenbuch s.v.) from several late papyri, e.g. P Lond IV. 1431.66 (A.D. 706–7) Ταβ [ι ]θὰ Δαυείτ, ";Tabitha daughter of David."; For Δορκάς, the Greek form of the name, see s.v.
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