What does συναγωνίζομαι (synagōnízomai) mean in the Bible?
συναγωνίζομαι (synagōnízomai): To strive alongside someone in their struggle; emphasizes shared effort and mutual support in spiritual battle.
Greek · G4865
συναγωνίζομαι
To struggle
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συναγωνίζομαι G4865
Pronunciation synagōnízomai
What does συναγωνίζομαι (synagōnízomai) mean in the Bible?
συναγωνίζομαι (synagōnízomai): To strive alongside someone in their struggle; emphasizes shared effort and mutual support in spiritual battle.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G4865?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include to join me in my struggle (1).
Where does συναγωνίζομαι (synagōnízomai) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Romans 15:30. 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 to join me in my struggle 1× Romans 15:30
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First aligned row Romans 15:30
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
Romans 1
Source forms
συναγωνίσασθαί 1x synagōnisasthai Romans 15:30
Parsing patterns
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Middle 1x Romans 15:30
Evidence Summary
Greek word. To strive alongside someone in their struggle; emphasizes shared effort and mutual support in spiritual battle.
Strong's G4865
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Romans 15:22-33 Source Gloss
to struggle
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
To strive alongside someone in their struggle; emphasizes shared effort and mutual support in spiritual battle.
to strive together with, to help (prop., of sharing in a contest): with dative of person(s) and of thing(s), Rom.15:30.
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 15:30 Verb Aorist Middle Deponent Infinitive
συναγωνίσασθαί sunagwnisasqai
I struggle in company 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 mood, tense, and voice shift the force of this verb in context.
This verb appears through different tense, voice, mood, or stem patterns. Those forms help readers see how the action is presented in context.
Form groups 1 Aligned forms 1 Tenses Aorist Voices Middle
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Tenses
Voices
Infinitive verbal noun — the action in abstract 1×
Aorist Middle Rom 15:30 1×
Discourse Aspect
How this verb appears across 1 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect
Tense
aorist 1
Voice
middle 1
Mood
infinitive 1
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
New Testament Witnesses
To strive together.
Word Origins
συναγωνίζομαι is built from these roots:
Why This Word Matters
Emphasizes shared spiritual struggle through prayer. Romans 15:22-33
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