συμπαθέω
sympathéō · G4834 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to suffer with, to share in the sufferings of
To suffer along with someone else
ExamplesHebrews 10:34 For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and lasting possession.
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to be sympathetic toward, to have sympathy for
To share someone’s feeling in the sense of being sympathetic with
ExamplesHebrews 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things just as we are, yet without sin.
Hebrews 10:34 For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and lasting possession.
How it’s used In 2 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 2 groups
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- δύναμαιcan 1
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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- To suffer with, to share in the sufferings of24.80
- The writer of Hebrews explains that believers “do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses” (Hebrews 4:15).
- To be sympathetic toward, to have sympathy for25.57
- The writer of Hebrews commends his readers because “you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property” (Hebrews 10:34).
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (T WH συνπαθέω (cf. σύν, II. at the end)), συμπάθω: 1 aorist συνεπάθησα; (συμπαθής); a.…
a. to be affected with the same feeling as another, to sympathize with (Aristotle, Plutarch).
b. in reference to the wretched, to feel for, have compassion on, (Vulg.compatior): τίνι, Heb 4:15 (A. V. to be touched with the feeling of); Heb 10:34 (Isocrates, p. 64 b.; Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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