συζητέω
to discuss
‘to discuss’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Present-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 4 times (40%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (20%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 1 time (10%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 10 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4802 appears — 10 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Mark 6 verses
- Mark 1:27 συζητεῖν pres act inf They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!"
- Mark 8:11 συζητεῖν pres act inf The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.
- Mark 9:10 συζητοῦντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising from the dead" meant.
- Mark 9:14 συζητοῦντας pres act ptcp acc pl masc Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.
- Mark 9:16 συζητεῖτε pres act ind 2pl He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?"
- Mark 12:28 συζητούντων pres act ptcp gen pl masc One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?"
Luke 2 verses
Acts 2 verses
- Acts 6:9 συζητοῦντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc But some of those who were of the synagogue called "The Libertines," and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.
- Acts 9:29 συνεζήτει impf act ind 3sg preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. He spoke and disputed against the Grecian Jews, but they were seeking to kill him.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to discuss” is the headline sense of the Greek verb συζητεω (syzētéō). More than half of its appearances fall in Mark. The Greek New Testament uses it across 10 verses — uncommon. Its earliest occurrence is Mark 1:27. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4802 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,056
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,056 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
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 10 distinct verses.
- Gospels 8 verses · 80%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 40%
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: Disputed 1×, Disputing 1×, Enquire 1×
- American Standard Version: Question 2×, Questioning 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Are you disputing 1×, Argue with 1×, Arguing 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: About 1×, Are you arguing 1×, Argue 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4802 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4802 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4802 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4802 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- to seek or examine together
- in the NT to discuss, dispute, question
Word origin
Derived from συν (sýn) (G4862) — with.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G4802 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| συζητεῖν syzēteîn | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Mark 1:27 | 3 |
| συζητοῦντες syzētoûntes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Mark 9:10 | 2 |
| συζητεῖτε syzēteîte | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | Mark 9:16 | 1 |
| συζητούντων syzētoúntōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Mark 12:28 | 1 |
| συζητοῦντας syzētoûntas | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Mark 9:14 | 1 |
| συνεζήτει synezḗtei | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 9:29 | 1 |
| συνζητεῖν synzēteîn | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Luke 24:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4802, 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
- κοινος koinós G2839 common
- συγγενης syngenḗs G4773 related by blood
- συγγνωμη syngnṓmē G4774 pardon
- συγκαθημαι synkáthēmai G4775 to sit together
- συγκαθιζω synkathízō G4776 to sit together
- συγκακοπαθεω synkakopathéō G4777 to suffer together
- συγκακουχεω synkakouchéō G4778 to be ill-treated together
- συγκαλεω synkaléō G4779 to call together
- συγκαλυπτω synkalýptō G4780 to cover completely
- συγκαμπτω synkámptō G4781 to bend together
- συγκαταβαινω synkatabaínō G4782 to go down with
- συγκατατιθεμαι synkatatíthemai G4784 to deposit together
- συγκαταψηφιζω synkatapsēphízō G4785 to vote against
- συγκεραννυμι synkeránnymi G4786 to mix together
- συγκλειω synkleíō G4788 to shut up
- συγκληρονομος synklēronómos G4789 joint heir
- συγκοινωνεω synkoinōnéō G4790 to share together
- συγκοινωνος synkoinōnós G4791 joint partner
- συγκομιζω synkomízō G4792 to collect together
- συγκρινω synkrínō G4793 to join together
- συγκυπτω synkýptō G4794 to bend together
- συγκυρια synkyría G4795 by chance
- συγχαιρω synchaírō G4796 to rejoice with
- συγχεω synchéō G4797 to disturb
+125 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 153 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
