What does σύμφυτος (sýmphytos) mean in the Bible?
σύμφυτος (sýmphytos): Organically united through growth together; in Romans 6:5, believers planted with Christ's death to share resurrection life
Greek · G4854
σύμφυτος
United
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σύμφυτος G4854
Pronunciation sýmphytos
What does σύμφυτος (sýmphytos) mean in the Bible?
σύμφυτος (sýmphytos): Organically united through growth together; in Romans 6:5, believers planted with Christ's death to share resurrection life
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How does the BSB render G4854?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include united with Him (1).
Where does σύμφυτος (sýmphytos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Romans 6:5. Its strongest book concentrations include Romans (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It united with Him 1× Romans 6:5
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Usage map
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First aligned row Romans 6:5
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
Romans 1
Source forms
σύμφυτοι 1x symphytoi Romans 6:5
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural 1x Romans 6:5
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Organically united through growth together; in Romans 6:5, believers planted with Christ's death to share resurrection life
Strong's G4854
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
united
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Organically united through growth together; in Romans 6:5, believers planted with Christ's death to share resurrection life
(συμφύω, to make to grow together) [in LXX: Zec.11:2 (בָּצַר), Est.7:7 Est.7:8 א2, Amo.9:13, 3Ma.3:22 * ;]
1congenital, innate (Plat., al.; 3Mac, l.with).
2grown along with, united with: τ. ὁμοιώματι τ. θανάτου αὐτσῦ (see Field, Notes, 155 f.), Rom.6:5.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Romans 6:5 Adjective Nominative Plural Masculine
σύμφυτοι sumfutoi
grown together, united with
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.
Grammatical Forms
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.
Form patterns 1 Aligned forms 1 Case pattern Nominative (1) Number pattern Plural (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Plural · Masculine Rom 6:5 1×
Word Origins
σύμφυτος is built from these roots:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain