Systello means “short” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4958 — masreth (“pan”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4958 συστέλλω (sustello) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sustello (soos-tel'-lo) v. 1. to send (draw) together, i.e. enwrap (enshroud a corpse for burial), contract (an interval) [from G4862 and G4724] It has 8 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include short. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
sustello (soos-tel'-lo) v. 1. to send (draw) together, i.e. enwrap (enshroud a corpse for burial), contract (an interval) [from G4862 and G4724] KJV: short, wind up Root(s): G4862, G4724
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4958. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to wrap up
Usage: συν-στέλλω (Rec. συσ-), [in LXX: Jdg.8:28 11:33 (כָּנַע ni.), Sir.4:31, al. ;] __1. to draw together, contract, shorten: of time, 1Co.7:29. __2. to wrap up: of enshrouding a body for burial (Eur.), with accusative, Act.5:6.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sustello, 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 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. 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 G4958 (συστέλλω) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Midian was straitened before the children of Israel, and they did not lift up their head anymore; and the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
And he smote them from Aroer till one comes to Arnon, in number twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a very great destruction: and the children of Ammon were straitened before the children of Israel.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Wherefore the wicked shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of iniquity were troubled, because salvation prospered in his hand.
Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Akrabattene, because they besieged Israel: and he gave them a great overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.
Hermon, being threatened in this unexpected and alarming manner, was troubled in visage, and depressed in countenance.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4958.
And Midian was straitened before the children of Israel, and they did not lift up their head anymore; and the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
And he smote them from Aroer till one comes to Arnon, in number twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a very great destruction: and the children of Ammon were straitened before the children of Israel.
And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
Wherefore the wicked shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of iniquity were troubled, because salvation prospered in his hand.
Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Akrabattene, because they besieged Israel: and he gave them a great overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.
Hermon, being threatened in this unexpected and alarming manner, was troubled in visage, and depressed in countenance.
Let not thy hand be stretched out to receive, And shut when thou shouldest repay.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4958, grouped by book.
Systello (Strong's G4958) is a Greek word most simply glossed "short". sustello (soos-tel'-lo) v. 1. to send (draw) together, i.e. enwrap (enshroud a corpse for burial), contract (an interval) [from G4862 and G4724]
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G4958 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4958 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as short. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4958, with linked reader references where each row is available.