Greek verb · G4958
συστέλλω
systellosoos-tel'-lo
to draw together, contract, shorten; to wrap up
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: systéllō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4958is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4958
to send (draw) together, i.e. enwrap (enshroud a corpse for burial), contract (an interval)
The King James renders it: short, wind up.
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
systello is rendered "to draw together, contract, shorten; to wrap up". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to draw together, contract, shorten".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 5:6Then the young men stepped forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Then the young men stepped forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.
Acts 5:6συνέστειλαν
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 Acts.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to draw together, contract, shorten, and to wrap up.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to draw together, contract, shortenof time, 1Co.7:29. | Tagged as
| Where1 Corinthians 7:29What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short… |
| to wrap upof enshrouding a body for burial (Eur.), with accusative, Act.5:6.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereActs 5:6Then the young men stepped forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| συσταυρόω | systauroo | to crucify with | Uses4 |
| συστρέφω | systrepho | to gather | Uses2 |
| συστροφή | systrophe | commotion/plot | Uses2 |
| συστρατιώτης | systratiotes | fellow soldier | Uses2 |
| συστενάζω | systenazo | to groan with | Uses1 |
| συστοιχέω | systoicheo | to correspond to | Uses1 |
| συστατικός | systatikos | recommended | Uses1 |
| συστασιαστής | systasiastes | insurrectionist | Uses1 |
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
- συνεσταλμένος1
- συνέστειλαν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
- verb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-RPP-NSM
Acts
one use
Then the young men stepped forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.
- συνέστειλανsunesteilanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: covered
1 Corinthians
one use
What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;
- συνεσταλμένοςsunestalmenosverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: shortened
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.