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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 16 times in 15 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:32 - Now Peter and his companions had been overcome with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw His glory and the two men standing G4921 with Him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:5 -

But if our unrighteousness [fn]demonstrates G4921 the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is the God who inflicts wrath unrighteous? (I am speaking in human terms.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 5:8 - But God demonstrates G4921 His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:1 -

Now I commend G4921 to you our sister Phoebe, who is a [fn]servant of the church which is at Cenchrea;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:1 -

Are we beginning to commend G4921 ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 4:2 - but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending G4921 ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 5:12 - We are not again commending G4921 ourselves to you but are giving you an opportunity to boast of us, so that you will have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 6:4 - but in everything commending G4921 ourselves as ministers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in distresses, in hardships,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:11 - For behold what earnestness this very thing—this [fn]godly sorrow—has brought about in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In everything you demonstrated G4921 yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 10:12 -

For we do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with [fn]some of those who commend G4921 themselves, but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 10:18 - For it is not the one who commends G4921 himself that is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends G4921.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:11 -

I have become foolish; you yourselves compelled me. For I ought to have been commended G4921 by you, for in no respect was I inferior to the [fn]most-eminent apostles, even if I am nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:18 - “For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove G4921 myself to be a transgressor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:17 -

And He [fn]is before all things,

And in Him all things [fn]hold G4921 together G4921.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 3:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:5 - For [fn]when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed G4921 out of water and by water,
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