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συγκληρονόμος

joint heir

‘joint heir’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G4789 Strong's Greek
synklēronómos Transliteration
/soong-klay-ron-om'-os/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 4 appearances

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About this entry

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συγκληρονομος — transliterated synklēronómos — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “joint heir.” A scarce word — 4 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Romans (25% of all occurrences). Debuting at Romans 8:17, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
fellow -heir
Modern gloss
joint heir
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G4789 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

4
distinct verses
The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
4 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
Romans 8:17
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Romans 8:17.
1 Peter 3:7
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Peter 3:7.
#1,877
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 2 · 50%
  • General Epistles 2 · 50%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 2 verses · 50%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 25%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 25%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Being heirs together 1×, Fellowheirs 1×, Heirs with him 1×
  • American Standard Version: Being also joint-heirs 1×, Fellow-heirs 1×, Heirs with him 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Fellow heirs 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fellow heirs 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4789 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Being heirs together” 1×
  • “Fellowheirs” 1×
  • “Heirs with him” 1×
  • “Joint-heirs” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4789 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Being also joint-heirs” 1×
  • “Fellow-heirs” 1×
  • “Heirs with him” 1×
  • “Joint-heirs” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4789 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Fellow heirs” 2×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4789 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Fellow heirs” 3×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. a fellow heir, a joint heir
  2. one who obtains something assigned to himself with others, a joint participant

Word origin

Derived from συν (sýn) (G4862) — with.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TDNT: 3:767 & 7:787,442 & 1102

From G4862 and G2818 ; a co-heir that is (by analogy) participant in common : - fellow (joint) -heir heir together heir with.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 4 distinct written forms G4789 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
συνκληρονόμα synklēronóma Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Ephesians 3:6 1
συνκληρονόμοι synklēronómoi Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Romans 8:17 1
συνκληρονόμοις synklēronómois Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine 1 Peter 3:7 1
συνκληρονόμων synklēronómōn Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Hebrews 11:9 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4789, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

+125 more words share this root (not shown).

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 151 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

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