noun · masculine
sundoulos
Strong’sG4889
a fellow servant, colleague
stem sundoul-10 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books6 of 10 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.
σύν-δουλος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX: Es 4:7, 9, 17, 23 5:3, 6 6:6, 13 (כְּנָת) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4889 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
fellow-slave, masculine, NT+5th c.BC+; also feminine συνδούλη, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 metaphorically in NT, NT (The statement of Moeris Refs 2nd c.AD+ distinguishes ς. 'slave of the same master' from ὁμόδουλος 'companion in slavery'.)
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.
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | sundoulos4×σύνδουλος | sundoulois2×σύνδουλοι |
| object accusative | sundoulon1×σύνδουλόν | sundouloin1×συνδούλους |
| direct address vocative | sundoulor | sundouloir |
| of, belonging to genitive | sundoulou1×συνδούλου | sundouloiu1×συνδούλων |
| to, for dative | sundoulo | sundouloi |
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
sundoulo 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
sundoulos“fellow servant”subjectnominative singular4×
Matthew 18:29piptarantos oun tos sundoulos autou parakalate auton legarōntos; Makrothumasar epi …So his fellow servant fell down and begged him, ‘Have …
Colossians 4:7… agapētos adelfos kai pistos diakonos kai sundoulos en kurio,… brother, a faithful minister, and a fellow servant in the Lord.
Revelation 19:10… auto. kai legatō mi; Horasōr mē; sundoulos su amō kai toiu adelfoiu su …… not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who …
Revelation 22:9kai legatō mi; Horasōr mē; sundoulos su amō kai toiu adelfoiu su …… not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the …
sundoulon“fellow servant”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 18:33ouk date kai sin elēara ton sundoulon su, hōs kamis sin elēama?… you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had on you?’
sundoulou“fellow servant”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Colossians 1:7kathōs mathava apo Epafrou tou agapētou sundoulou nu, hos atō pistos huper nu …… learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of …
sundoulois“fellow slaves”subjectnominative plural2×
Matthew 18:31“fellow slaves”horarantois oun tois sundoulois autou teim generanteim lupila sfodra, kai …When his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went …
Revelation 6:11… chronon mikron, heōs plērileia kai tois sundoulois autoiu kai tois adelfois autoiu tois …… until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers, were killed, just as …
sundouloin“fellow servants”objectaccusative plural1×
Matthew 24:49kai archeteia tuptarō toin sundouloin autou, esthiateiō de kai pinateiō meta …And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with …
sundouloiu“fellow servants”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Matthew 18:28… tos doulos ekeinos heuriskata henon toiu sundouloiu autou hos ofeilate auto hekaton dēnarieim, …… out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii …