Quick Definition
I roll or gather together
Strong's Definition
to twist together, i.e. collect (a bundle, a crowd)
Derivation: from G4862 (σύν) and G4762 (στρέφω);
KJV Usage: gather
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
συστρέφω: 1 aorist participle συτρεψας; present passive participle συστρεφόμενος; (from Aeschylus and Herodotus down);
1. to twist together, roll together (into a bundle): φρυγάνων πλῆθος, Act_28:3.
2. to collect, combine, unite: τινας, passive (reflexively (?)) of men, to (gather themselves together) assemble: Mat_17:22 L T Tr text WH, see ἀναστρέφω, 3 a.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
συστρέφω systrephō 2x
to turn or roll together; to collect, gather, Act_28:3 ; Mat_17:22
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
συ -στέφω ,
[in LXX chiefly for H7194 ;]
1. to twist together: c . acc rei , Act_28:3 .
2. Pass ., of persons, to gather themselves together: Mat_17:22 ( WH , R , mg .).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
συστρέφω [page 617]
gather together, twist together, c. acc. rei, as in Act_28:3 , is seen in P Oxy II. 234 ii. 12 (medical prescription for earache ii/iii A.D.) οἰσυπηρὸν ἔριον περὶ μηλωτρίδα συστρέψας καὶ χλιαίνων ἔνσταζε , twist some wool with the oil in it round a probe, warm, and drop in, and so .32 , also BGU VII. 1673 .15 (ii/A.D.) σ [υ ]νέστρεψα , unfortunately in a broken context.
Cf. Wόnsch AF p. 23 .19 (iii/A.D.) ὁρκίζω σε τὸν συνστρέφοντα τὴν γῆν ἐ [πὶ τ ]ῶν θεμελίων αὐτῆς , where the verb = conglobare (cf. Pro_8:29 ). For the mid., apparently in the sense of gather themselves together, cf. Mat_17:22 .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
συστρέφω fut. ψω "to twist up into a ball", Lat. conglobare: of animals, "to gather" themselves "together", in preparing to spring, Plat. : of soldiers, ς. ἑωυτούς "to collect" themselves, "rally", Hdt. : Pass., συστραφέντες "in a body", id=Hdt. ; ἐπὶ πεντήκοντα ἀσπίδων συνεστραμμένοι ἦσαν "they were formed in a mass" 50 deep, Xen. of soldiers, also, συστρέφειν ἐπὶ δόρυ "to wheel" them to the right, id=Xen. ; ς. τὸν ἵππον "to turn" him "sharply", Plut. "to form into an organised whole, unite", Hdt. :—Pass. "to unite, club together, conspire", Thuc. , Aeschin. of sentences, narratives, and the like, "to compress", Arist. : absol., συστρέψας γράφει writes "briefly, curtly", Aeschin. :—Pass., ῥῆμα βραχὺ καὶ συνεστραμμένον a short and "pithy" saying, Plat.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
συ-στέφω
[in LXX chiefly for קָשַׁר ;]
__1. to twist together: with accusative of thing(s), Act.28:3.
__2. Pass., of persons, to gather themselves together: Mat.17:22 (WH, R, mg.).†
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