adjective
suzugos
Strong’sG4805
a yoke-fellow, colleague
stem suzug-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-ζυγος (Rec. ουζ-), or as WH, mg., Σύνζυγος, -ον
(< συνζεύγνυμι), [in Aq., Ez 23:21 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4805 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsood'-zoo-gos
co-yoked, i.e. (figuratively) as noun, a colleague; probably rather as a proper name; Syzygus, a Christian
Fromfrom G4801;
King Jamesyokefellow.
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
yoked together, paired, united, especially by marriage, σ. ὁμαυλίαι wedded union, Refs 4th c.BC+; of fish, swimming in pairs, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 as substantive, feminine, wife, Refs 5th c.BC+; masculine, yoke-fellow, comrade, NT+5th c.BC+; brother, Refs 5th c.BC+; a gladiator's adversary, Herzog Koische ForschungenRefs; of things, ἀδελφὰ τούτοις καὶ σ. πεποιηκότες Refs 1st c.AD+
II common, σ. πᾶσι πατρίς Refs adverb -γως conjointly with, τινι Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | suzugos | suzugas | suzugem | suzugois | suzugais | suzugeim |
| object accusative | suzugon | suzugan | suzugoin | suzugain | ||
| direct address vocative | suzugor1×σύζυγε | suzugar | suzugoir | suzugair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | suzugou | suzugau | suzugeu | suzugoiu | suzugaiu | suzugeiu |
| to, for dative | suzugo | suzuga | suzuge | suzugoi | suzugai | suzugei |
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
suzug 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
suzugor“companion”direct addressvocative singular1×
Philippians 4:3“companion”nai erōtamō kai sin, gnēsior suzugor, sullabosōr autai, hotinais en te euangelie …Yes, and I ask you, my true yokefellow, to help these women who have contended at my side for the gospel, along with …