Strong's #4864: sunagoge (pronounced soon-ag-o-gay')
from (the reduplicated form of) 4863; an assemblage of persons; specially, a Jewish "synagogue" (the meeting or the place); by analogy, a Christian church:--assembly, congregation, synagogue.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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sunagōgē
1) a bringing together, gathering (as of fruits), a contracting
2) in the NT, an assembling together of men, an assembly of men
3) a synagogue
3a) an assembly of Jews formally gathered together to offer prayers and listen to the reading and expositions of the scriptures; assemblies of that sort were held every sabbath and feast day, afterwards also on the second and fifth days of every week; name transferred to an assembly of Christians formally gathered together for religious purposes
3b) the buildings where those solemn Jewish assemblies are held. Synagogues seem to date their origin from the Babylonian exile. In the times of Jesus and the apostles every town, not only in Palestine, but also among the Gentiles if it contained a considerable number of Jewish inhabitants, had at least one synagogue, the larger towns several or even many. These were also used for trials and inflicting punishment.
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from (the reduplicated form of) G4863
Citing in TDNT: 7:798, 1108
Usage:
This word is used 57 times:
Acts 19:8: "he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months,"
Acts 22:19: "imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on"
Acts 24:12: "the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the"
Acts 26:11: "them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and"
James 2:2: "there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly"
Revelation 2:9: "are not, but are the synagogue of Satan."
Revelation 3:9: "them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are"
