συστρατιώτης
systratiṓtēs · G4961 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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one who struggles along with, one who works arduously along with, fellow struggler
(A figurative extension of meaning of συστρατιώτης ‘fellow soldier,’ not occurring in the NT) One who serves in arduous tasks or undergoes severe experiences together with someone else
ExamplesPhilippians 2:25 But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my need,
Philemon 1:2 and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐγώI, we 2
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἘπαφρόδιτοςEpaphroditus 1
- Ἄρχιπποςhorse-ruler 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
- συνεργός synergós · G4904 · fellow worker
- Both denote partnership in Christian work and toil; συνεργός emphasizes collaborative labor in general ministry contexts, while συστρατιώτης specifically employs military metaphor (fellow-soldier) for the same Christian partnership reality
- κοινωνός koinōnós · G2844 · partner, associate, one who joins in with
- Both indicate partnership in Christian endeavor; κοινωνός emphasizes shared participation and fellowship in the work or cause, while συστρατιώτης specifically frames the partnership in military terms of fellow-soldiering
Semantic domains 1 entry
- One who struggles along with, one who works arduously along with, fellow struggler34.19
- Paul writes that he thought it necessary to send Epaphroditus, “my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my need” (Philippians 2:25).
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (T Tr WH συνστρατιωτης (so Lachmann in Philiem.; cf. σύν, II. at the end)), συστρατιωτου,…
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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