συμβάλλω
to fight with
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (33%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4820 appears — 6 distinct verses across 2 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.
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 2:19 συνβάλλουσα pres act ptcp nom sg fem But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
- Luke 14:31 συμβαλεῖν aor act inf Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Acts 4 verses
- Acts 4:15 συνέβαλλον impf act ind 3pl But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
- Acts 17:18 συνέβαλλον impf act ind 3pl Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
- Acts 18:27 συνεβάλετο aor mid ind 3sg When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;
- Acts 20:14 συνέβαλλεν impf act ind 3sg When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene.
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.
συμβαλλω — transliterated symbállō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to fight with.” Its uses cluster heavily in Acts (67% of all occurrences). With 6 verses in 2 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Debuting at Luke 2:19, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside συν, κοινος and συγγενης. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4820 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
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 6 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 100%
- Gospels 2 verses · 33%
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: Encountered 1×, He met 1×, Helped them 1×
- American Standard Version: Encounter 1×, Encountered 1×, He helped them 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Began to debate 1×, Conferred 1×, He met 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fight 1×, He met 1×, Helped 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4820 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4820 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4820 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4820 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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 throw together, to bring together
Word origin
Derived from συν (sýn) (G4862) — with.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G4820 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| συνέβαλλον synéballon | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 4:15 | 2 |
| συμβαλεῖν symbaleîn | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Luke 14:31 | 1 |
| συνέβαλλεν synéballen | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 20:14 | 1 |
| συνβάλλουσα synbállousa | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 2:19 | 1 |
| συνεβάλετο synebáleto | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 18:27 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4820, 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).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 151 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word συμβαλλω appears 5 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5 verses in 4 books.
- 5
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 5
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Chronicles 25:19 συνβάλλω
- Psalms 48:13 συνβάλλω
- Isaiah 46:6 συνβάλλω
- Jeremiah 50:3 συνβάλλω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4820) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Chronicles 25:19 συνβάλλω You say, Behold, you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast: abide now at home; why should you meddle to [your] hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?
- Psalms 48:13 συνβάλλω Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, That you may tell it to the next generation.
- Psalms 48:21 συνβάλλω
- Isaiah 46:6 συνβάλλω Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship.
- Jeremiah 50:3 συνβάλλω For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and animal.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4820) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
