Word

συζεύγνυμι

syzeúgnymi · G4801 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to cause to be married, to join in marriage

    To join two persons in a marriage relationship

    Examples

    Matthew 19:6 “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate.”

    Mark 10:9 “Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate.”

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
κολλάω kolláō · G2853 · to join, to join oneself to, to become a part of
Greek verb meaning to join closely or unite; used in marriage contexts (e.g., Matthew 19:5, 'shall cleave to his wife') to describe the joining of husband and wife. While κολλάω emphasizes clinging or adhering rather than yoking, both verbs express the uniting of two parties, especially in marriage.
In the other Testament 1 word
צָמַד tsâmad · H6775 · to be fastened, to be girded, to associate (with)
Hebrew verb meaning to yoke or bind together, often used of yoking animals (like oxen) but also figuratively of joining people. This is the most direct Hebrew equivalent for the literal yoking sense that συζεύγνυμι carries.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To cause to be married, to join in marriage34.73
The verb describes God's own act of uniting a husband and wife. Jesus declares, “what God has joined together, no person is to separate” (Matthew 19:6).
Word family 6 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist συνέζευξα; from Euripides, and Xenophon down; properly, to fasten to one yoke,…
: 1 aorist συνέζευξα; from Euripides, and Xenophon down; properly, to fasten to one yoke, yoke together: ἵππους, Xenophon, Cyril 2, 2, 26; tropically, to join together, unite: τί or τινα, of the marriage tie, Mt 19:6; Mk 10:9 (νόμος συζευγνυς ἄνδρα καί γυναῖκα, Xenophon, oec. 7, 30, and often so in Greek writings).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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