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Greek verb · G4878

συναντιλαμβάνομαι

synantilambanomaisoon-an-tee-lam-ban'-om-ahee

to help

2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: synantilambánomai

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4878is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G4878

to take hold of opposite together, i.e. co-operate (assist)

The King James renders it: help.

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

synantilambanomai is rendered "to help". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.

  • One of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 10:40But Martha was distracted by all the preparations to be made. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me!”
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

But Martha was distracted by all the preparations to be made. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me!”

Luke 10:40συναντιλάβηται.¶

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's two uses is in Luke.

The other 25 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • joins to help1
  • she may help1

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.

συνάγωsynagoto assembleUses59
συναγωγήsynagogesynagogueUses56
συνανάκειμαιsynanakeimaito dine withUses7
συναντάωsynantaoto meetUses6
συναρπάζωsynarpazoto seizeUses4
συναίρωsynairoto settle accountsUses3
συναπάγωsynapagoto lead away withUses3
συνακολουθέωsynakoloutheoto accompanyUses3
συναποθνήσκωsynapothneskoto die withUses3
συναιχμάλωτοςsynaichmalotosfellow prisonerUses3
συναναμίγνυμιsynanamignymito associate withUses3
συναθλέωsynathleoto contendUses2

and 10 more on the stem.

All 2, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

2 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

  • συναντιλάβηται.¶1
  • συναντιλαμβάνεται1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist middle form, subjunctive · 3rd person singular1V-2ADS-3S
  • verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PNI-3S

Luke

one use
  • But Martha was distracted by all the preparations to be made. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me!”

    Luke 10:40

    • συναντιλάβηται.¶sunantilabetaiverb · aorist middle form, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: she may help

Romans

one use
  • In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.

    Romans 8:26

    • συναντιλαμβάνεταιsunantilambanetaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: joins to help

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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