Syntrophos means “brought up with” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4939 — mispach (“oppression”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4939 σύντροφος (suntrophos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. suntrophos (soon'-trof-os) adj. 1. a fellow-nursling, i.e. comrade [from G4862 and G5162 (in a passive sense)] It has 2 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include brought. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
suntrophos (soon'-trof-os) adj. 1. a fellow-nursling, i.e. comrade [from G4862 and G5162 (in a passive sense)] KJV: brought up with Root(s): G4862, G5162
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4939. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
brought up with
Usage: σύν-τροφος, -ου, ὁ (συντρέφομαι, to be brought up together) [in LXX: 3Ki.12:24, 1Ma.1:6 R, 2Ma.9:29 * ;] __1. prop., one nourished or brought up with, a foster-brother: Act.13:1 EV. __2. In Hellenistic usage, as a court term, an intimate friend of a king (see Deiss., BS, 305, 310 f.): Act.13:1 (cf. also MM, xxiv).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render suntrophos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4939 (σύντροφος) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And Philip, that was brought up with him, carried away his body, who also fearing the son of Antiochus went into Egypt to Ptolemy Philometor.
First 2 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4939.
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
And Philip, that was brought up with him, carried away his body, who also fearing the son of Antiochus went into Egypt to Ptolemy Philometor.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4939, grouped by book.
Syntrophos (Strong's G4939) is a Greek word most simply glossed "brought up with". suntrophos (soon'-trof-os) adj. 1. a fellow-nursling, i.e. comrade [from G4862 and G5162 (in a passive sense)]
This page currently indexes 2 linked usages for Strong's G4939 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4939 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as brought. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4939, with linked reader references where each row is available.