Greek verb · G4820
συμβάλλω
symballosoom-bal'-lo
to ponder/confer
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: symbállō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4820is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4820
to combine, i.e. (in speaking) to converse, consult, dispute, (mentally) to consider, (by implication) to aid, (personally) to join, attack
The King James renders it: confer, encounter, help, make, meet with, ponder.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
symballo is rendered "to ponder/confer". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 2:19But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
Luke 2:19συμβάλλουσα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he helped1
- he was meeting with1
- pondering1
- they were confering1
- to engage1
- were encountering1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| συμβαίνω | symbaino | to happen | Uses8 |
| συμβούλιον | symboulion | counsel/council | Uses8 |
| συμβιβάζω | symbibazo | to join with | Uses7 |
| συμβουλεύω | symbouleuo | to consult | Uses4 |
| συμβασιλεύω | symbasileuo | to reign with | Uses2 |
| σύμβουλος | symboulos | counselor | Uses1 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- συνέβαλλον2
- συμβαλεῖν1
- συμβάλλουσα1
- συνεβάλετο1
- συνέβαλλεν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-IAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-2AAN
- verb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-2AMI-3S
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-IAI-3S
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-PAP-NSF
Luke
two uses
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
- συμβάλλουσαsumballousaverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: pondering
Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
- συμβαλεῖνsumbaleinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to engage
Acts
four uses
So they ordered them to leave the Sanhedrin and then conferred together.
- συνέβαλλονsuneballonverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were confering
Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.
- συνέβαλλονsuneballonverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were encountering
When Apollos resolved to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. On his arrival, he was a great help to those who by grace had believed.
- συνεβάλετοsunebaletoverb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he helped
And when he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene.
- συνέβαλλενsuneballenverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he was meeting with
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.