suntrofos

Strong’sG4939

a foster brother

stem suntrof-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.

σύν-τροφος, -ου, ὁ

(< συντρέφομαι, to be brought up together) [in LXX: III Ki 12:24, I Mac 1:6 R, II Mac 9:29 *;]

1. prop., one nourished or brought up with, a foster-brother: Ac 13:1 EV.

2. In Hellenistic usage, as a court term, an intimate friend of a king (v. Deiss., BS, 305, 310 f.): Ac 13:1 (cf. also MM, xxiv).†

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

Strong’s G4939 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidsoon'-trof-os

a fellow-nursling, i.e. comrade

Fromfrom G4862 and G5162 (in a passive sense);

King Jamesbrought up with.

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

σύντροφ-ος, ον,
brought up together with, τινι Refs 5th c.BC+; also with genitive, foster-brother, οἱ μόθακες σ. Λακεδαιμονίων Refs 3rd c.BC+; σ. τοῦ βασιλέως Σελεύκου, etc., Refs 2nd c.BC+; and in Comedy texts phrase, τηγάνων σ. μειρακύλλια Refs 4th c.BC+; frequently of domestic animals, σ. τοῖσι ἀνθρώποισι Refs 5th c.BC+; τοῖς θηρίοις πόθος τῶν σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; κυνίδιον σ. Refs 1st c.AD+ bred up with me, says Ajax of the Athenians, Refs 5th c.BC+; of like habits with oneself, Refs 5th c.BC+; Ζωτίκῳ συντρόφῳ his foster-brother, Refs 1st c.BC+; compare συντρόφη:—τὸ σ., ={συντροφία}Refs 4th c.BC+
2 generally, living with, τοῖς φονεῦσι Refs 5th c.BC+; ξ. ὄμμα the eye or presence of a companion, Refs; used to a thing, σ. ὤν (i.e. ἀνάγκαις) Refs 5th c.BC+; φιλοσοφίᾳ, πενίᾳ, κολακείᾳ, Refs 2nd c.BC+; ἁρμονίης, μέθας, Refs
3 of things, habitual, νόσημα Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ ξ. everyday evils, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ τῆς πάλαι ποτὲ φύσεως σ. the congenital property of nature, Refs 5th c.BC+; πῦρ τὸ σ. innate heat, Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. τινί natural to, χυμῷ Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ ἐναντιώτατον [πρόσωπον] οὐδὲ σ. ἡμῖν ὑπάρχον the opposite face (that of the dying patient) not being familiar to us, Refs 2nd c.AD+; τῇ Ἑλλάδι πενίη αἰεὶ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+ his habitual cry, Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb, -φως ἔχειν with dative, to be suitable, Refs 5th c.BC+
II active, joint-herd, fellow-herdsman, τῆς ἀγέλης Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 τοῖς ὕδασι σ. τῶν ἀναβλαστανόντων assisting in nourishing.. , Refs 5th 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.

who had been brought up with1×

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	suntrofos1×σύντροφος	suntrofas	suntrofem	suntrofois	suntrofais	suntrofeim
object accusative	suntrofon	suntrofan		suntrofoin	suntrofain
direct address vocative	suntrofor	suntrofar		suntrofoir	suntrofair
of, belonging to genitive	suntrofou	suntrofau	suntrofeu	suntrofoiu	suntrofaiu	suntrofeiu
to, for dative	suntrofo	suntrofa	suntrofe	suntrofoi	suntrofai	suntrofei

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

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

suntrof 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

suntrofos“who had been brought up with”subjectnominative singular1×

Acts 13:1… Kurēnaios, Manaēn tē Hērōdou tou tetraarchou suntrofos kai Saulos.… called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen ( who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch ), and Saul.