Strong's #4912: sunecho (pronounced soon-ekh'-o)

from 4862 and 2192; to hold together, i.e. to compress (the ears, with a crowd or siege) or arrest (a prisoner); figuratively, to compel, perplex, afflict, preoccupy:--constrain, hold, keep in, press, lie sick of, stop, be in a strait, straiten, be taken with, throng.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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sunechō

1) to hold together

1a) any whole, lest it fall to pieces or something fall away from it

2) to hold together with constraint, to compress

2a) to press together with the hand

2a) to hold one' s ears, to shut the heavens that it may not rain

2b) to press on every side

2b1) of a besieged city

2b2) of a strait, that forces a ship into a narrow channel

2b3) of a cattle squeeze, that pushing in on each side, forcing the beast into a position where it cannot move so the farmer can administer medication

3) to hold completely

3a) to hold fast

3a1) of a prisoner

3b) metaphorically

3b1) to be held by, closely occupied with any business

3b2) in teaching the word

3b3) to constrain, oppress, of ills laying hold of one and distressing him

3b4) to be held with, afflicted with, suffering from

3b5) to urge, impel

3b5a) of the soul

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G4862 and G2192

Citing in TDNT: 7:877, 1117

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

Matthew 4:24: "unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and"
Luke 4:38: "Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought"
Luke 8:37: "him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear:"
Luke 8:45: "Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and"
Luke 12:50: "to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!"
Luke 19:43: "thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,"
Luke 22:63: "And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote"
Acts 7:57: "they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran"
Acts 18:5: "from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the"
Acts 28:8: "father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to"
2 Corinthians 5:14: "the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that"
Philippians 1:23: "For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart, and"