G4820
G4820 — συμβάλλω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
sumballo (soom-bal'-lo) v.
1. to combine
2. (in speaking) to converse, consult, dispute
3. (mentally) to consider
4. (by implication) to aid
5. (personally) to join, attack
[from G4862 and G906]
KJV: confer, encounter, help, make, meet with, ponder
Root(s): G4862, G906
TWOT
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KJV Renderings
confer, encounter, help, make, meet with, ponder
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
συμβάλλω (συνβάλλω WH (so Tdf. except Luk 14:31); cf. Σιν, II. at the end); imperfect συνέβαλλον; 2 aorist συνέβαλον; 2 aorist middle συνεβαλομην; from Homer down; to throw together, to bring together;
a. λόγους (Latinsermones conferre), to converse, Euripides, Iphig. Aul. 830; with λόγους omitted (cf. English confer), Plutarch, mor., p. 222 e. (Winers Grammar, 593 (552); (Buttmann, 145 (127))): τίνι, to dispute with one, Act 17:18 (where A. V. encountered (cf.
c. below)); πρός ἀλλήλους, to confer with one another, deliberate among themselves, Act 9:15.
b. to bring together in one’s mind, confer with oneself (cf. σύν, II. 4), to consider, ponder: ἐν τῇ καρδία, to revolve in the mind, Luk 2:19 (συμβαλων τῷ λογισμῷ τό ὄναρ, Josephus, Antiquities 2, 5, 3).
c. intransitive (Winers Grammar, § 38, 1; (Buttmann, § 130, 4)), to come together, meet: τίνι, to meet one (on a journey), Act 20:14 (Homer, Odyssey 21, 15; Josephus, Antiquities 2, 7, 5); "to encounter in a hostile sense: τίνι, to fight with one (1Ma 4:34; 2Ma 8:23 2Ma 14:17; Polybius 1, 9, 7; 3, 111, 1, and often), with εἰς πόλεμον added, Luk 14:31 (εἰς μάχην, Polybius 3, 56, 6; Josephus, Antiquities 12, 8, 4; πρός μάχην, Polybius 10, 37, 4). Middle, to bring together of one’s property, to contribute, aid, help: πολύ τίνι, one, Act 18:27; often so in Greek authors also, especially Polybius; cf. Schweighäuser, Lex. Polybius, p. 576; Passow, under the word, 1 b. ἆ.; (Liddell and Scott, under the word I. 2); Grimm, Exeget. Hdbch. on Wis 5:8.
Englishman's Greek Concordance
συμβάλλω (confer)
Luke 2:19
- KJV: But Mary kept all these things and pondered in her heart
- GK: η δε Μαριάμ πάντα συνετήρει τα ρήματα ταύτα συμβάλλουσα εν τη καρδία αυτής
Luke 14:31
- KJV: Or what king going to make war against another king sitteth not down first and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand
- GK: η τις βασιλεύς πορευόμενος συμβαλείν ετέρω βασιλεί εις πόλεμον ουχί καθίσας πρώτον βουλεύεται ει δυνατός εστιν εν δέκα χιλιάσιν απαντήσαι τω μετά είκοσι χιλιάδων ερχομένω επ΄ αυτόν
Acts 4:15
- KJV: But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council they conferred among themselves
- GK: κελεύσαντες δε αυτούς έξω του συνεδρίου απελθείν συνέβαλλον προς αλλήλους
Acts 17:18
- KJV: Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoicks encountered him And some said What will this babbler say other some He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection
- GK: τινές δε των Επικουρείων και των Στωϊκων φιλοσόφων συνέβαλλον αυτώ και τινες έλεγον τι αν θέλοι ο σπερμολόγος ούτος λέγειν οι δε ξένων δαιμονίων δοκεί καταγγελεύς είναι ότι τον Ιησούν και την ανάστασιν αυτοίς ευηγγελίζετο
Acts 18:27
- KJV: And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia the brethren wrote exhorting the disciples to receive him who when he was come helped them much which had believed through grace
- GK: βουλομένου δε αυτού διελθείν εις την Αχαϊαν προτρεψάμενοι οι αδελφοί έγραψαν τοις μαθηταίς αποδέξασθαι αυτόν ος παραγενόμενος συνεβάλετο πολύ τοις πεπιστευκόσι διά της χάριτος
Acts 20:14
- KJV: And when he met with us at Assos we took him in and came to Mitylene
- GK: ως δε συνέβαλεν ημίν εις την Άσσον αναλαβόντες αυτόν ήλθομεν εις Μιτυλήνην