Strong's G4805: σύζυγος (sýzygos) Meaning

Quick Definition

σύζυγος, ου, ὁ Adj a yoke-fellow, colleague

Strong's Definition

co-yoked, i.e. (figuratively) as noun, a colleague; probably rather as a proper name; Syzygus, a Christian

Derivation: from G4801 (συζεύγνυμι);

KJV Usage: yokefellow

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

σύζυγος (G4805)

adjc. | -ου | ζυγός

42.45 · Perform, Do · Work, Toil

fellow worker one who is closely linked with another in some activity Some scholars, however, interpret σύζυγος in PHP 4:3 as being a proper name.

PHP 4:3

¹ σύζυγος seems to differ in meaning from συνεργός fellow worker (42.44) in implying a closer relationship with greater sharing of responsibility.

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

σύζυγος (L T Tr WH συνζυγος (cf. σύν, II. at the end)), συζυγον, (συζεύγνυμι), yoked together; used by Greek writers (from Aeschylus down) of those united by the bond of marriage, relationship, office, labor, study, business, or the like; hence, a yoke-fellow, consort, comrade, colleague, partner. Accordingly, in Php_4:3 most interpreters hold that by the words γνήσιε σύζυγε Paul addresses some particular associate in labor for the gospel. But as the word is found in the midst of (three) proper names, other expositors more correctly take it also as a proper name ((WH marginal reading Συνζυγε); see Laurent, Ueber Synzygos in the Zeitschr. f. d. Luther. Theol. u. Kirche for 1865, p. 1ff (reprinted in his Neutest. Studien, p. 134f)); and Paul, alluding (as in Phm_1:11) to the meaning of the word as an appellative, speaks of him as 'a genuine Synzygus', i. e. a colleague in fact as well as in name. Cf. Meyer and Wiesinger at the passage; (Hackett in B. D. American edition under the word ).

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

σύζυγος syzygos 1x

an associate, comrade, fellow laborer, or it could be the person’s name, Phil. 4:3*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

** σύν-ζυγος (Rec. ουζ-), or as WH, mg., Σύνζυγος, -ον

(< συνζεύγνυμι), [in Aq., Ez 23:21 * ;]

a yoke fellow. Prob., as proper name, Σ. γνήσιε, genuinely Synzygus, S. properly so-called, Phl 4:3 (v. ICC, Lft., in l.; MM, xxiii).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

σύνζυγος, **yoke-fellow.” We can produce no evidence for σύνζυγος as a proper name, though its use as such in Phil 45 seems probable (WH marg.): see Kennedy ZG7 ad Δ For its use as an appellative Thieme (p. 32) cites the Magnesian graffito 328 (prob. i/A.pD.) σ]ύζυγοι Βαίβιος Κάλλιπος : cf. 321.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

σύζυγος (suzugos) — yokefellow. σύζῠγ-ος, ον, 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 Forschungen[Refs]; 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+]

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

σύν-ζυγος (Rec. ουζ-), or as WH, mg., Σύνζυγος, -ον (συνζεύγνυμι), [in Aq., Eze.23:21 * ;] a yoke fellow. Prob., as proper name, Σ. γνήσιε, genuinely Synzygus, S. properly so-called, Php.4:3 (see ICC, Lft., in l; MM, xxiii).† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (1)

4:3

G4805 σύζυγος (sýzygos)