συμφέρω
symphérō · G4851 · Greek · 17 occurrences
Meanings
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to gather together, to call together
To cause to come together, whether of animate or inanimate objects
ExamplesActs 19:19 And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they added up the prices of the books and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.
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to be advantageous, to be better off, to be to someone’s advantage
To be of an advantage to someone
ExamplesMatthew 5:29 “Now if your right eye is causing you to sin, tear it out and throw it away from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Matthew 5:30 “And if your right hand is causing you to sin, cut it off and throw it away from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.
Matthew 18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it is better for him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and that he be drowned in the depths of the sea.
How it’s used In 6 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
15 occurrences in 11 groups
- Not stated (participle) 4
- ἀπόλλυμιto destroy, to perish, to lose 3
- Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- βίβλοςscroll 1
With adverbsAdverbs
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὐnot 4
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐμαυτοῦmyself 1
- σύyou 1
What is done to itIt is the object
6 occurrences in 5 groups
- λέγωto say 2
- λογίζομαιto count, to reckon, to consider 1
- προενάρχομαιto begin previously 1
- συμβουλεύωto advise 1
- ὑποστέλλωto shrink back, to hold back 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- πρόςto, toward, with 4
- ἐπίon 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- λυσιτελεῖ lysiteleî · G3081 · to be advantageous, to be better off, to be to someone’s advantage
- Both terms express impersonal advantage or benefit, though λυσιτελεῖ occurs only once in the corpus while συμφέρω shows broader attestation across multiple contexts. The terms overlap in conveying that something serves a purpose or brings benefit.
- ὠφέλεια ōphéleia · G5622 · advantage, benefit
- Both terms denote benefit or advantage. συμφέρω functions as a verb meaning 'to be advantageous' or 'to be profitable' (with some literal uses of gathering/bringing together), while ὠφέλεια is an abstract noun denoting usefulness or benefit as a quality or state.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- To gather together, to call together15.125
- Luke records that many of those who practiced magic “brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone” (Acts 19:19).
- To be advantageous, to be better off, to be to someone’s advantage65.44
- Jesus teaches, “it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell” (Matthew 5:29).
- Advantage, benefit65.45
- Caiaphas argues that “it is in your best interest that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish instead” (John 11:50).
Word family 31 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 1 aorist participle συνενέγκαντες (Acts 19:19); from (Homer (in middle)), Aeschylus,…
1. with a reference to the object, to bring together: τί, Acts 19:19.
2. with a reference to the subject, "to bear together or at the same time; to carry with other's; to collect or contribute in order to help, hence, to help, be profitable, be expedient"; συμφέρει, it is expedient, profitable, and in the same sense with a neuter plural: with the subject πάντα, 1 Cor 6:12; 1 Cor 10:23; τί τίνι, 2 Cor 8:10; with an infinitive of the object (as in Greek writings), Mt 19:10; 2 Cor 12:1 (where L T Tr WH have συμφέρον); with the accusative and infinitive Jn 18:14; συμφέρει τίνι followed by ἵνα (see ἵνα, II. 2c. (Buttmann, § 139, 45; Winer's Grammar, 337 (316))), Mt 5:29; Mt 18:6; Jn 11:50; Jn 16:7. τό συμφέρον, that which is profitable (Sophocles, Euripides, Xenophon, Demosthenes, others): 1 Cor 12:7; plural (Plato, de rep. 1, p. 341 e.), Acts 20:20; advantage, profit, Heb 12:10; τό... σύμφορον τίνος (often in Greek writings) the advantage of one, one's profit, 1 Cor 7:35; 1 Cor 10:33 (in both passaagaes, L T Tr WH read σύμφορον, which see).
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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