What does σύνδουλος (sýndoulos) mean in the Bible?
σύνδουλος (sýndoulos): Fellow servant sharing the same master, emphasizing mutual accountability and equal standing before God.
Greek · G4889
σύνδουλος
Fellow slave
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σύνδουλος G4889
Pronunciation sýndoulos
What does σύνδουλος (sýndoulos) mean in the Bible?
σύνδουλος (sýndoulos): Fellow servant sharing the same master, emphasizing mutual accountability and equal standing before God.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G4889?
The BSB source-word alignment has 10 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include fellow servants (4), a fellow servant (3), fellow servant (3).
Where does σύνδουλος (sýndoulos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 18:28. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (5), Revelation (3), Colossians (2).
Are there verse guides for σύνδουλος (sýndoulos)?
This entry includes 1 verse guide that explain exact original-language forms in context.
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 fellow servants 4× Matthew 18:28, Matthew 18:31, Matthew 24:49, Revelation 6:11
a fellow servant 3× Colossians 4:7, Revelation 19:10, Revelation 22:9
fellow servant 3× Matthew 18:29, Matthew 18:33, Colossians 1:7
Show sample aligned rows
Matthew 18:28 συνδούλων to fellow servants Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural Matthew 18:29 σύνδουλος to fellow servant Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Matthew 18:31 σύνδουλοι to fellow servants Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural Matthew 18:33 σύνδουλόν to fellow servant Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Matthew 24:49 συνδούλους to fellow servants Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural Colossians 1:7 συνδούλου to fellow servant Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Colossians 4:7 σύνδουλος to a fellow servant Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Revelation 6:11 σύνδουλοι to fellow servants Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural Revelation 19:10 σύνδουλός to a fellow servant Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Revelation 22:9 σύνδουλός to a fellow servant Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Matthew 18:28
Aligned rows 10
Books represented 3
Matthew 5 Colossians 2 Revelation 3
Source forms
σύνδουλοι 2x syndouloi Matthew 18:31, Revelation 6:11
σύνδουλος 2x syndoulos Matthew 18:29, Colossians 4:7
σύνδουλός 2x syndoulos Revelation 19:10, Revelation 22:9
σύνδουλόν 1x syndoulon Matthew 18:33
συνδούλου 1x syndoulou Colossians 1:7
συνδούλους 1x syndoulous Matthew 24:49
συνδούλων 1x syndoulōn Matthew 18:28
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular 4x Matthew 18:29, Colossians 4:7, Revelation 19:10, Revelation 22:9
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural 2x Matthew 18:31, Revelation 6:11
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural 1x Matthew 24:49
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular 1x Matthew 18:33
Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural 1x Matthew 18:28
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular 1x Colossians 1:7
Key Verse and Form Guides
Verse-level guides showing how this original-language form works in its specific context, including grammar, verse function, and guarded interpretation.
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Fellow servant sharing the same master, emphasizing mutual accountability and equal standing before God.
Source Gloss
fellow slave
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
10 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 18:28 Noun Genitive Plural Masculine
συνδούλων sundoulwn
a fellow servant, colleague
Read verse Matthew 18:29 Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
σύνδουλος sundoulov
a fellow servant, colleague
Read verse Matthew 18:31 Noun Nominative Plural Masculine
σύνδουλοι sundouloi
a fellow servant, colleague
Read verse Matthew 18:33 Noun Accusative Singular Masculine
σύνδουλόν sundoulon
a fellow servant, colleague
Read verse Matthew 24:49 Noun Accusative Plural Masculine
συνδούλους, sundoulouv
a fellow servant, colleague
Read verse Colossians 1:7 Noun Genitive Singular Masculine
συνδούλου sundoulou
a fellow servant, colleague
Read verse Colossians 4:7 Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
σύνδουλος sundoulov
a fellow servant, colleague
Read verse Revelation 6:11 Noun Nominative Plural Masculine
σύνδουλοι sundouloi
a fellow servant, colleague
Read verse Revelation 19:10 Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
σύνδουλός sundoulov
a fellow servant, colleague
Read verse sundoulov
a fellow servant, colleague
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 6 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 6 Aligned forms 10 Case pattern Nominative (6) Number pattern Singular (6)
Nominative · Plural · Masculine Matt 18:31 · Rev 6:11 2×
Genitive · Plural · Masculine Matt 18:28 1×
Genitive · Singular · Masculine Col 1:7 1×
Accusative · Singular · Masculine Matt 18:33 1×
Accusative · Plural · Masculine Matt 24:49 1×
Selected Scripture Witnesses
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Biblical Witnesses
servant owing debt to another servant, illustrating mutual accountability
servant of Christ alongside Paul, sharing common divine master
trusted minister sharing service to Christ with apostolic community
martyrs and believers serving same Lord awaiting completion of persecution
angel and human worshiper both serving one divine Lord in worship
Showing 5 selected witnesses from 10 lexical occurrence verses.
Word Origins
σύνδουλος 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