σύνδουλος
fellow servant
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
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.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 4 times (40%)
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (20%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (10%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (10%)
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 1 time (10%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, 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 G4889 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.
Matthew 5 verses
- Matthew 18:28 συνδούλων n gen pl masc "But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'
- Matthew 18:29 σύνδουλος n nom sg masc "So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will repay you!'
- Matthew 18:31 σύνδουλοι n nom pl masc So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.
- Matthew 18:33 σύνδουλόν n acc sg masc Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'
- Matthew 24:49 συνδούλους n acc pl masc and begins to beat his fellow-servants, and eat and drink with the drunken,
Colossians 2 verses
- Colossians 1:7 συνδούλου n gen sg masc even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,
- Colossians 4:7 σύνδουλος n nom sg masc All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.
Revelation 3 verses
- Revelation 6:11 σύνδουλοι n nom pl masc A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.
- Revelation 19:10 σύνδουλός n nom sg masc I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, "Look! Don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy."
- Revelation 22:9 σύνδουλός n nom sg masc He said to me, "See you don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God."
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 noun συνδουλος centers on the idea of “fellow servant.” The word gravitates to Matthew (50%), then Revelation and Colossians. It turns up in 10 verses across 3 books, an uncommon footprint. First canonically at Matthew 18:28, it enters the text early. Translators differ — “fellowservant” in the King James Version, then “fellow servant” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4889 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 →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 5 verses 50%
- Revelation 3 verses 30%
- Colossians 2 verses 20%
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 5 verses · 50%
- Johannine 3 verses · 30%
- Revelation 3 verses · 30%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 20%
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: Fellowservant 6×, Fellowservants 4×
- American Standard Version: Fellow-servant 6×, Fellow-servants 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fellow servant 6×, Fellow servants 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fellow servant 3×, Fellow slave 3×, Fellow slaves 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4889 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4889 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G4889 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4889 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 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.
- a fellow servant, one who serves the same master with another
Word origin
Derived from συν (sýn) (G4862) — with.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G4889 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σύνδουλοι sýndouloi | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 18:31 | 2 |
| σύνδουλος sýndoulos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 18:29 | 2 |
| σύνδουλός sýndoulós | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 19:10 | 2 |
| συνδούλου syndoúlou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Colossians 1:7 | 1 |
| συνδούλους syndoúlous | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 24:49 | 1 |
| συνδούλων syndoúlōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 18:28 | 1 |
| σύνδουλόν sýndoulón | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 18:33 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4889, 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 συνδουλος appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 1 book.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Ezra 4:7 σύνδουλος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4889) 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.
- Ezra 4:7 σύνδουλος In the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian [character], and set forth in the Syrian [language].
- Ezra 4:9 σύνδουλος then [wrote] Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,
- Ezra 4:17 σύνδουλος [Then] sent the king an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions who dwell in Samaria, and in the rest [of the country] beyond the River: Peace, and so forth.
- Ezra 4:23 σύνδουλος Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
- Ezra 5:3 σύνδουλος At the same time came to them Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and their companions, and said thus to them, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
- Ezra 5:6 σύνδουλος The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king;
- Ezra 6:6 σύνδουλος Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, be you far from there:
- Ezra 6:13 σύνδουλος Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions, because that Darius the king had sent, did accordingly with all diligence.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4889) 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.
