συμφων-ία, ἡ,
concord or
unison of sound, τὴν ἐν τῇ ᾠδῇ ἁρμονίαν, ἢ δὴ σ. καλεῖται [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2) of two sounds only,
musical concord, accord, such as the fourth, fifth, and octave, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ διὰ πασῶν σ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; distinguished from mere ὁμοφωνία, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
3)
harmonious union of many voices or
sounds, concert, οἱ τῶν σ. λόγοι, the [
Refs 4th c.BC+] doctrine
of the music of the spheres, [
Refs]
II)
metaphorically,
harmony, agreement, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; μείξας πάντα κατὰ συμφωνίαν, of a cook, [
Refs 4th c.BC+];
unanimily, σ. τῶν ἱστορησάντων [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
concordance, of theory with observed fact, ἔχειν τοῖς φαινομένοις σ. [
Refs 4th c.BC+] ={τὸ συμπεφωνημένον} [
Refs], the
amount agreed upon, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
III)
band, orchestra, Ἑλληνικά 1.19 [
Refs 1st c.AD+], and so perhaps in [
Refs 2nd c.BC+], but used of a musical instrument in [
LXX]; so Latin
symphonia, of a kind of drum, [
Refs 1st c.AD+];
symphoniae et cymbala strepitusque, [
NT+1st c.AD+]