Quick Definition
I am in travail together
Strong's Definition
to have (parturition) pangs in company (concert, simultaneously) with, i.e. (figuratively) to sympathize (in expectation of relief from suffering)
Derivation: from G4862 (σύν) and G5605 (ὠδίνω);
KJV Usage: travail in pain together
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
συνωδίνω;
a. properly, to feel the pains of travail with, be in travail together: οἶδε ἐπί τῶν ζοωον τάς ὠδῖνας ὁ σύνοικος καί συνωδίνει γέ τά πολλά ὥσπερ καί ἀλεκτρυονες, Porphyry, de abstin. 3, 10; (cf. Aristotle, eth. Eud. 7, 6, p. 1240a, 36).
b. metaphorically, to undergo agony (like a woman in childbirth) along with: Rom_8:22 (where σύν refers to the several parts of which ἡ κτίσις consists, cf. Meyer at the passage); κακοῖς, Euripides, Hel. 727.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
συνωδίνω synōdinō 1x
pr. to travail at the same time with; trop. suffer together, Rom_8:22
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* συν -ωδίνω ,
to be in travail together ( Arist .): metapb. ( Eur .), Rom_8:22 .†
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
συνωδίνω "to be in travail together", Eur.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
συν-ωδίνω
to be in travail together (Arist.): metapb. (Eur.), Rom.8:22.†
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