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συμπαρακαλέω

to exhort together

‘to exhort together’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G4837 Strong's Greek
symparakaléō Transliteration
/soom-par-ak-al-eh'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1 appearance

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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.

The Greek verb συμπαρακαλεω centers on the idea of “to exhort together.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. Romans dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Its lone occurrence is Romans 1:12. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
comfort together
Modern gloss
to exhort together
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 G4837 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 →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Romans 1:12
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Romans 1:12.
#3,503
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 100%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • 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 1 distinct verse.

  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 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: I may be comforted together 1×
  • American Standard Version: May be comforted 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: May be mutually encouraged 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be mutually encouraged 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4837 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “I may be comforted together” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4837 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “May be comforted” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4837 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “May be mutually encouraged” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4837 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Be mutually encouraged” 1×

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. to call upon or invite or exhort at the same time or together
  2. to strengthen (comfort) with others

Word origin

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

Part of speech: Verb

From G4862 and G3870 ; to console jointly : - comfort together.

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


Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4837, 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.

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Shares the same root

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