συμβιβάζω
to join together
‘to join together’ is one of 3 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).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- 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).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
2 verses where G4822 appears in the Present tense in the Book of Acts. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Acts
- Acts 9:22 συμβιβάζων pres act ptcp nom sg masc But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.
- Acts 16:10 συμβιβάζοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Gospel to them.
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 join together” is the headline sense of the Greek verb συμβιβαζω (symbibázō). First canonically at Acts 9:22, it enters the text early. It turns up in 7 verses across 4 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Acts, which alone accounts for 43% of its uses. Catalogued under 3 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4822 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 3 verses 43%
- Colossians 2 verses 29%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 14%
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 7 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 4 verses · 57%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 43%
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: Assuredly gathering 1×, Being knit together 1×, Compacted 1×
- American Standard Version: Concluding 1×, He should instruct 1×, Knit 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Knit together 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Held together 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4822 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4822 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4822 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 G4822 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 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 cause to coalesce, to join together, put together
- to put together in one's mind
- to cause a person to unite with one in a conclusion or come to the same opinion, to prove, demonstrate
Word origin
Derived from συν (sýn) (G4862) — with.
From G4862 and βιβάζω bibazō (to force ; causatively [by reduplication] of the base of G939 ); to drive together that is unite (in association or affection) (mentally) to infer show teach : - compact assuredly gather instruct knit together prove.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G4822 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| συνβιβαζόμενον synbibazómenon | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Ephesians 4:16 | 2 |
| συμβιβάζοντες symbibázontes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 16:10 | 1 |
| συμβιβάζων symbibázōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 9:22 | 1 |
| συμβιβάσει symbibásei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Corinthians 2:16 | 1 |
| συμβιβασθέντες symbibasthéntes | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Colossians 2:2 | 1 |
| συνεβίβασαν synebíbasan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 19:33 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4822, 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 συμβιβαζω appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 6 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 4:12 συνβιβάζω
- Leviticus 10:11 συνβιβάζω
- Deuteronomy 4:9 συνβιβάζω
- Judges 13:8 συνβιβάζω
- Psalms 31:8 συνβιβάζω
- Isaiah 40:13 συνβιβάζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4822) 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.
- Exodus 4:12 συνβιβάζω Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."
- Exodus 4:15 συνβιβάζω You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
- Exodus 18:16 συνβιβάζω When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."
- Leviticus 10:11 συνβιβάζω and that you are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses."
- Deuteronomy 4:9 συνβιβάζω Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;
- Judges 13:8 συνβιβάζω Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child who shall be born.
- Psalms 31:8 συνβιβάζω You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
- Isaiah 40:13 συνβιβάζω Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or being his counselor has taught him?
- Isaiah 40:14 συνβιβάζω With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shown to him the way of understanding?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4822) 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.
