Word

συναθλέω

synathléō · G4866 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

to labor alongside of, to toil with

To toil together with someone in a struggle, implying opposition and/or competition

Examples
Philippians 1:27 Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear about you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

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 2 groups

ὅστιςwhoever, whichever, whatever 1
Not stated (participle) 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 3 groups

ἐνin+ εὐαγγέλιονthe gospel, the good news 1
μετάwith, after+ Κλήμηςmerciful 1
μετάwith, after+ συνεργόςfellow worker 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 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

συνεργέω synergéō · G4903 · to work together with, to be active together with: συνεργέω emphasizes cooperative work or labor together, while συναθλέω specifically connotes contending or striving together with an athletic/competitive metaphor; both express joint effort but συναθλέω carries the more intense connotation of struggle or contest
συναγωνίζομαι synagōnízomai · G4865 · to join fervently in, to join vigorously in: συναγωνίζομαι emphasizes agonizing or contending together in struggle, very close in sense to συναθλέω's athletic striving metaphor; both convey intense joint effort in a contest-like context

Semantic domains 1 entry

To labor alongside of, to toil with42.50: Paul urges the Philippians to stand firm, “with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel” (Philippians 1:27).

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἀθλέω athléō · G118 · to compete · 2×συναθλέωsynathléō · G4866ἄθλησις áthlēsis · G119 · struggle, conflict, challenge · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon συνάθλω; 1 aorist συνήθλησα; to strive at the same time with another: with a dative…

συνάθλω; 1 aorist συνήθλησα; to strive at the same time with another: with a dative commodi (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 31, 4), for something, Phm 1:21; τίνι ἐν τίνι, together with one in something, Phm 4:3. (universally, to help, assist, Diodorus 3, 4.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Work, Toil2 occurrences

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