Gloss
to commend, recommend; to demonstrate, bring out, prove to be; (intr.) to stand with; to hold together; to be formed
Forms of the word
Dictionary
συνίστημι
Greek transliteration
synistēmi
Simplified transliteration
synistemi
Principal Parts
-, συνέστησα, συνέστηκα, -, συνετάθην
Numbers
Strong's number
4921
GK Number
5319
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
16
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
cv-6a
Definition
also spelled συνιστάνω and συνιστάω, to place together; to recommend to favorable attention, Rom. 16:1; 2 Cor. 3:1; 10:18; to place in a striking point of view, Rom. 3:5; 5:8; Gal. 2:18; to stand beside, Lk. 9:32; to have been permanently framed, Col. 1:17; to possess consistence, 2 Pet. 3:5
Greek-English Concordance for συνίστημι
| Luke 9:32 | Peter and those who were with him were weighed down with sleep, but they kept awake and saw his glory and the two men who were standing (synestōtas | συνεστῶτας | perf act ptcp acc pl masc) with him. |
| Romans 3:5 | But if our unrighteousness demonstrates (synistēsin | συνίστησιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I use a human argument!) |
| Romans 5:8 | But God demonstrates (synistēsin | συνίστησιν | pres act ind 3 sg) his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. |
| Romans 16:1 | I commend (synistēmi | συνίστημι | pres act ind 1 sg) to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea, |
| 2 Corinthians 3:1 | Are we beginning to (synistanein | συνιστάνειν | pres act inf ) recommend (synistanein | συνιστάνειν | pres act inf ) ourselves again? We do not need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we? |
| 2 Corinthians 4:2 | But we have renounced shameful hidden deeds. We do not practice cunning, nor do we tamper with the word of God, but by the open declaration of truth we commend (synistanontes | συνιστάνοντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. |
| 2 Corinthians 5:12 | For we (synistanomen | συνιστάνομεν | pres act ind 1 pl) are (synistanomen | συνιστάνομεν | pres act ind 1 pl) not again recommending (synistanomen | συνιστάνομεν | pres act ind 1 pl) ourselves to you but giving you an occasion to boast on our behalf, so that you may be able to answer those who boast of what is seen and not of what is in the heart. |
| 2 Corinthians 6:4 | Rather, as servants of God, we (synistantes | συνίσταντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) commend (synistantes | συνίσταντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) ourselves in every way: in great endurance, in times of affliction, hardship, and distress; |
| 2 Corinthians 7:11 | For see what eagerness this very thing — this sadness as God intended — has produced in you; what defense of yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what deep concern, what punishment! In everything you have proved (synestēsate | συνεστήσατε | aor act ind 2 pl) yourselves to be innocent in this matter. |
| 2 Corinthians 10:12 | For we would not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who (synistanontōn | συνιστανόντων | pres act ptcp gen pl masc) are (synistanontōn | συνιστανόντων | pres act ptcp gen pl masc) recommending (synistanontōn | συνιστανόντων | pres act ptcp gen pl masc) themselves. Rather, when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves by themselves, they are without understanding. |
| 2 Corinthians 10:18 | For it is not the one (synistanōn | συνιστάνων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) who (synistanōn | συνιστάνων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) recommends (synistanōn | συνιστάνων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord recommends (synistēsin | συνίστησιν | pres act ind 3 sg). |
| 2 Corinthians 12:11 | I am acting like a fool, but you drove me to it. I ought to (synistasthai | συνίστασθαι | pres pass inf ) be (synistasthai | συνίστασθαι | pres pass inf ) commended (synistasthai | συνίστασθαι | pres pass inf ) by you, for in no way am I inferior to the “super-apostles” — even though I am nothing. |
| Galatians 2:18 | But if I build up again those things I once tore down, then I (synistanō | συνιστάνω | pres act ind 1 sg) demonstrate (synistanō | συνιστάνω | pres act ind 1 sg) that I am a lawbreaker. |
| Colossians 1:17 | And he is before all things, and in him all things hold (synestēken | συνέστηκεν | perf act ind 3 sg) together. |
| 2 Peter 3:5 | For in maintaining this, they overlook the fact that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was (synestōsa | συνεστῶσα | perf act ptcp nom sg fem) formed (synestōsa | συνεστῶσα | perf act ptcp nom sg fem) out of water and by means of water. |
