Greek noun (masculine) · G4886
σύνδεσμος
syndesmossoon'-des-mos
bond(age)
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sýndesmos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4886is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4886
a joint tie, i.e. ligament, (figuratively) uniting principle, control
The King James renders it: band, bond.
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
syndesmos is rendered "bond(age)". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Colossians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 8:23For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
Acts 8:23σύνδεσμον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Colossians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bond3
- ligaments1
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.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- σύνδεσμον1
- σύνδεσμος1
- συνδέσμῳ1
- συνδέσμων1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular1N-ASM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1N-DSM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1N-GPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
Acts
one use
For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
- σύνδεσμονsundesmonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: bond
Ephesians
one use
and with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
- συνδέσμῳsundesmonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: bond
Colossians
two uses
He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
- συνδέσμωνsundesmonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: ligaments
And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
- σύνδεσμοςsundesmosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: bond
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.