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Lexicon :: Strong's G4921 - synistēmi

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συνίστημι
Transliteration
synistēmi (Key)
Pronunciation
soon-is'-tay-mee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From σύν (G4862) and ἵστημι (G2476) (including its collat. forms)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:896,1120

Strong’s Definitions

συνιστάω sunistaō, soon-is-tah'-o; or (strengthened)
συνιστάνω sunistanō, soon-is-tan'-o;
συνίστημι sunistēmi, soon-is'-tay-mee; from G4862 and G2476 (including its collateral forms); to set together, i.e. (by implication) to introduce (favorably), or (figuratively) to exhibit; intransitively, to stand near, or (figuratively) to constitute:—approve, commend, consist, make, stand (with).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's G4921 in the following manner: commend (10x), approve (2x), consist (1x), make (1x), stand (1x), stand with (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's G4921 in the following manner: commend (10x), approve (2x), consist (1x), make (1x), stand (1x), stand with (1x).

  1. to place together, to set in the same place,to bring or band together

    1. to stand with (or near)

  2. to set one with another

    1. by way of presenting or introducing him

    2. to comprehend

  3. to put together by way of composition or combination, to teach by combining and comparing

    1. to show, prove, establish, exhibit

  4. to put together, unite parts into one whole

    1. to be composed of, consist

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
συνιστάω sunistaō, soon-is-tah'-o; or (strengthened)
συνιστάνω sunistanō, soon-is-tan'-o;
συνίστημι sunistēmi, soon-is'-tay-mee; from G4862 and G2476 (including its collateral forms); to set together, i.e. (by implication) to introduce (favorably), or (figuratively) to exhibit; intransitively, to stand near, or (figuratively) to constitute:—approve, commend, consist, make, stand (with).
STRONGS G4921:
συνίστημι (Romans 3:5; Romans 5:8; Romans 16:1; 2 Corinthians 10:18; Galatians 2:18 Rec.; participle συνιστάντες, 2 Corinthians 4:2 L T Tr; 2 Cor. 6:4 L T Tr), or συνιστάνω (2 Corinthians 5:12; Galatians 2:18 G L T Tr WH; infinitive συνιστάνειν, 2 Corinthians 3:1 R G T WH; participle συνιστάνων, 2 Corinthians 4:2 WH; 2 Cor 6:4 WH; 2 Corinthians 10:12, 18 L T Tr WH), or συνιστάω (infinitive συνισταν, 2 Corinthians 3:1 L Tr; participle συνίστων, 2 Corinthians 4:2 R G; 2 Cor. 6:4 R G; 2 Cor. 10:18 Rec.; see ἵστημι); 1 aorist συνέστησα; perfect συνέστηκα; 2 perfect participle συνεστώς (nominative plural neuter συνεστωτα, 2 Peter 3:5 WH marginal reading); present passive infinitive συνίστασθαι; from Homer, Iliad 14, 96 down;
1. to place together, to set in the same place, to bring or band together; in the 2 aorist, perfect and pluperfect intransitively, to stand with (or near): συνεστώς τίνι, Luke 9:32.
2. to set one with another i. e. by way of presenting or introducing him, i. e. to commend (Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Polybius, Josephus, Plutarch): τινα, 2 Corinthians 3:1; 2 Corinthians 6:4; 2 Corinthians 10:12, 18; τινα τίνι, Romans 16:1; 2 Corinthians 5:12 (cf. Buttmann, 393 (336)); τινα πρός συνείδησιν τίνος, 2 Corinthians 4:2; passive, ὑπό τίνος, 2 Corinthians 12:11 (1 Macc. 12:43; 2 Macc. 4:24).
3. to put together by way of composition or combination, to teach by combining and comparing, hence, to show, prove, establish, exhibit (Winer's Grammar, 23 (22)): τί, Romans 3:5; Romans 5:8 (εὔνοιαν, Polybius 4, 5, 6); ἑαυτούς ὡς τινες, 2 Corinthians 6:4; with two accusatives, one of the object, the other of the predicate, Galatians 2:18 (Diodorus 13, 91; συνίστησιν συτον προφήτην, Philo rer. div. haer. § 52); followed by an accusative with an infinitive (cf. Buttmann, 274 (236)), 2 Corinthians 7:11 (Diodorus 14, 45).
4. to put together (i. e. unite parts into one whole), perfect, pluperfect and 2 aorist to be composed of, consist: ἐξ ὕδατος καί δἰ ὕδατος, 2 Peter 3:5 (cf. Winers Grammar, § 45, 6 a.; (see above, at the beginning)); to cohere, hold together: τά πάντα συνέστηκεν ἐν αὐτῷ, Colossians 1:17 (Plato, de rep. 7, p. 530 a.; Tim., p. 61 a.; (Bonitz's index to Aristotle (Berlin Acad. edition) under the word συνισταναι), and often in ecclesiastical writings; (cf. Lightfoot on Colossians, the passage cited)).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Luke
9:32
Romans
3:5; 3:5; 5:8; 5:8; 16:1; 16:1
2 Corinthians
3:1; 3:1; 3:1; 4:2; 4:2; 4:2; 4:2; 5:12; 5:12; 6:4; 6:4; 6:4; 6:4; 6:4; 7:11; 10:12; 10:12; 10:18; 10:18; 10:18; 10:18; 12:11
Galatians
2:18; 2:18; 2:18
Colossians
1:17
2 Peter
3:5; 3:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4921 matches the Greek συνίστημι (synistēmi),
which occurs 9 times in 8 verses in '2Co' in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:1

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Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 4:2

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Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful things, not acting deceitfully or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by an open display of the truth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 5:12

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We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in outward appearance rather than in the heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 6:4

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Instead, as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything: by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardships, by difficulties,

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For consider how much diligence this very thing ​— ​this grieving as God wills ​— ​has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.

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For we don’t dare classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. But in measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves to themselves, they lack understanding.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 10:18

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For it is not the one commending himself who is approved, but the one the Lord commends.

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I have been a fool; you forced it on me. You ought to have commended me, since I am not in any way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

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