This adverb describes people acting together or with one accord. Acts uses it for the disciples' continuing prayer, for gathered believers praising God, and also for hostile people rushing against Stephen.
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This adverb describes people acting together or with one accord. Acts uses it for the disciples' continuing prayer, for gathered believers praising God, and also for hostile people rushing against Stephen.
The BSB source-word alignment has 11 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include With one accord (4), together (2), . . . (1), all (1), coordinated an (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 1:14. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (10), Romans (1).
This adverb describes people acting together or with one accord. Acts uses it for the disciples' continuing prayer, for gathered believers praising God, and also for hostile people rushing against Stephen. Romans places one-voice praise within an appeal for harmony in accordance with Christ Jesus. The shared-action description therefore does not, by itself, tell the reader whether a gathering is faithful or harmful.
Its purpose and conduct must be read from the scene. Nor does acting together prove identical agreement on every unspoken question. Notice who joins the action, what they do and how the text evaluates it. Christian unity has its stated relationship to Christ and mutual welcome; a crowd's coordinated action is not automatically a model to follow.
Shared prayer, Christ-shaped praise and a hostile rush demonstrate why coordinated action must be assessed through its object and conduct rather than approved by the adverb alone.
With one accord they all continued in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
The disciples and named companions continue together in prayer, so the shared action has the specific object of prayer within the waiting community.
So that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
One-voice glorification of God follows the appeal for harmony in accordance with Christ Jesus and precedes the instruction to welcome one another.
At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him.
Those opposing Stephen cover their ears and rush at him together; coordinated action here describes hostility rather than a faithful community's agreement.
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Greek word. Unified mental/spiritual agreement, not merely acting together physically—emphasizes internal accord
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
12 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
with one mind, unanimously
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
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ὁμοθυμαδόν is built from these roots:
Highlights the unity that magnifies God’s glory.Romans 15:1-6
The hostile rush against Stephen is an essential check on treating this adverb as a virtue by itself. The participants act together, but the scene does not commend their action. Acts also describes believers praying together, while Romans connects shared praise with harmony according to Christ Jesus and mutual welcome. The difference comes from the whole passage, not from changing the dictionary gloss whenever the actors change.
A useful study therefore asks about the shared action's direction. What is the group doing, toward whom, and with what stated purpose? That question leaves room for genuine fellowship while refusing to make group agreement an authority above the text. It also prevents unity language from becoming a demand to conceal wrongdoing or suppress conscientious questions.
Rom.15.6
The licensed comparison gives with one mind, with one accord and a discussion of together. The selected scenes establish shared action; the adverb alone does not determine the extent of inner agreement or the action's moral quality.
Acts and Romans ground the selected Christian unity examples in prayer, praise and welcome in relation to Christ. The comparator's older-language parallels do not create a direct Old Testament quotation or prove that every coordinated group shares the same covenant standing or theological understanding.