sumpathos

Strong’sG4835

sympathizing, compassionate

stem sumpath-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

συμπαθής, -ές

(< σύν, πάσχω) [in LXX: Jb 29:25 A (אֹבֵל), IV Mac 5:25א, 13:23 15:4 *;]

1. affected by like feelings, sympathetic: I Pe 3:8.

2. exciting sympathy (Jb, l.c.; Dion. H.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4835 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidsoom-path-ace'

having a fellow-feeling ("sympathetic"), i.e. (by implication) mutually commiserative

Fromfrom G4841;

King Jameshaving compassion one of another.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

συμπαθ-ής, ές,
affected by like feelings, sympathetic, οὐδεὶς ὁμαίμου -έστερος φίλος Refs 5th c.BC+; πρὸς τὰ γεννηθέντα συμπαθέστεραι μᾶλλον αἱ μητέρες γίνονται [τῶν τιτθῶν] Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 exerting mutual influence, interacting, ἡ ψυχὴ καὶ τὸ σῶμα συμπαθῆ Refs 4th c.BC+; νεῦρα ἀλλήλοις σ. Refs 6th c.AD+; sensitive to influence, τὸ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ θερμόν.. -έστατον Refs 4th c.BC+; of the members of an organism, Refs 5th c.BC+; exciting sympathy, χερῶν σ. ὑπτιασμός Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative, Refs
3 of planets, in concord, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II adverb -θῶς sympathetically, Refs 4th c.BC+ -έστατα Refs 1st c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

sympathetic1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	sumpathos	sumpathas	sumpathem	sumpathois1×συμπαθεῖς	sumpathais	sumpatheim
object accusative	sumpathon	sumpathan		sumpathoin	sumpathain
direct address vocative	sumpathor	sumpathar		sumpathoir	sumpathair
of, belonging to genitive	sumpathou	sumpathau	sumpatheu	sumpathoiu	sumpathaiu	sumpatheiu
to, for dative	sumpatho	sumpatha	sumpathe	sumpathoi	sumpathai	sumpathei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

sumpathstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

sumpath is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

sumpathamō — συμπαθέω, I sympathize with, have compassion on

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

sumpathois“sympathetic”subjectnominative plural1×

1 Peter 3:8Tem de telem pantoir homofrōnois, sumpathois, filadelfois, eusplanchnois, tapeinofrōnois,… all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and …