Acts 20:8:10Acts.20.8.W10TAB
συνηγμένοι
synêgmenoi
“gathered”
- Transliteration
- sy-nêg-ME-noi
- Extended
- syoo-nêêg-MEH-noi
- IPA
- /sy.nɛːgˈme.noi/
Meaning by language
- English
- gathered
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Gamma | gh — guttural | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
- word
sy-nêg-ME-noi
- sentence
Ê-san de lam-PA-des hi-ka-NAI en tôi hy-pe-RÔ-iôi hou Ê-men sy-nêg-ME-noi
Exegesis
The relative clause hou emen sunegmenoi {οὗ ἦμεν συνηγμένοι | hou ē-men su-NEG-me-noi} is introduced by hou, a genitive relative pronoun used adverbially with the sense “where,” tying the location directly to the gathered group. The periphrastic construction combines the imperfect emen with the perfect passive participle sunegmenoi, conveying a state resulting from a completed act of gathering that continued over a period of time. This structure allows the translation “we had been gathered together” or “we were gathered together,” both capturing an ongoing assembled state. In English, the more natural word order places “there were” first as an existential construction, followed by the subject and location, and then the relative clause, resulting in “There were many lamps in the upper room where we had been gathered together” for a formal rendering, and a slightly more idiomatic “There were plenty of lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting together” to convey the same scene in contemporary language.
In context — Acts 20:8
Now there were many lamps in the upper room where we had been gathered together .
About this coordinate
Acts 20:8:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Acts 20:8, so the Greek word συνηγμένοι (synêgmenoi) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Acts.20.8.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.20.8.W10.S1) and character.