συμπαθέω
to sympathize
‘to sympathize’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs 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.
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (50%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4834 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Hebrews 2 verses
- Hebrews 4:15 συνπαθῆσαι aor act inf For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
- Hebrews 10:34 συνεπαθήσατε aor act ind 2pl For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
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.
συμπαθεω — transliterated sympathéō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to sympathize.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Hebrews. Its earliest occurrence is Hebrews 4:15. 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
About this word
Strong's G4834 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 2 verses 100%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Hebrews 2 verses · 100%
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: Be touched with the feeling 1×, Ye had compassion 1×
- American Standard Version: Be touched with the feeling 1×, Ye both had compassion 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sympathize 1×, You sympathized 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sympathize 1×, Sympathized with 1×, You 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4834 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4834 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4834 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4834 across 3 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 be affected with the same feeling as another, to sympathise with
- to feel for, have compassion on
Word origin
Derived from συμπαθης (sympathḗs) (G4835) — sympathetic.
From G4835 ; to feel sympathy with that is (by implication) to commiserate : - have compassion be touched with a feeling of.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4834 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| συνεπαθήσατε synepathḗsate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | Hebrews 10:34 | 1 |
| συνπαθῆσαι synpathē̂sai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Hebrews 4:15 | 1 |
