συνευδοκέω
syneudokéō · G4909 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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to agree to, to consent to
To decide with someone else that something is preferable or good
ExamplesLuke 11:48 “So you are witnesses and you approve of the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.
Acts 8:1 Now Saul approved of putting Stephen to death. And on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
Acts 22:20 ‘And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I also was standing nearby and approving, and watching over the cloaks of those who were killing him.’
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
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- οὗτοςthis 2
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
- Not stated: they 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- οἰκέωto dwell, to live 2
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- καίand 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 1 entry
- To agree to, to consent to31.17
- Luke records that following Stephen's death, “Saul approved of putting Stephen to death” (Acts 8:1).
Word family 19 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon συνευδόκω; (see εὐδοκέω, at the beginning); a. to be pleased together with, to approve…
a. to be pleased together with, to approve together (with others): absolutely (yet so that the thing giving pleasure is evident from the context), Acts 22:20 G L T Tr WH; with a dative of the thing, Lk 11:48; Acts 8:1; Acts 22:20 Rec. ((Polybius 24, 4, 13); 1 Macc. 1:57; 2 Macc. 11:24).
b. to be pleased at the same time with, consent, agree to ((Polybius 32, 22, 9); 2 Macc. 11:35); followed by an infinitive 1 Cor 7:12f. (R. V. here be content); with a dative of a person to applaud (R. V. consent with), Rom 1:32. (Diodorus; ecclesiastical 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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