Word Summary
synergeō: to work together
Original Word: συνεργέωTransliteration: synergeō
Phonetic Spelling: (soon-erg-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to work together
Meaning: to work together
Strong's Concordance
to work together
From sunergos; to be a fellow-worker, i.e. Co-operate -- help (work) with, work(-er) together.
see GREEK sunergos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4903: συνεργέωσυνεργέω,
συνεργῷ; imperfect 3 person singular
συνήργει; (
συνεργός, which see); from
Euripides,
Xenophon,
Demosthenes down;
Vulg.cooperor ((in
2 Corinthians 6:1adjuco));
to work together, help in work, be a partner in labor:
1 Corinthians 16:16;
2 Corinthians 6:1;
to put forth power together with and thereby to assist, Mark 16:20;
τίνι,
with one:
ἡ πίστις συνήργει τοῖς ἔργοις, faith (was not inactive, but by coworking) caused Abraham to produce works,
James 2:22 (here
Tr text
συνεργεῖ (hardly a collateral form of
συνείργω to unite, but) a misprint for
συνεργεῖ);
τίνι εἰς τί (in secular writings also
πρός τί, see
Passow (or Liddell and Scott), under the word), to assist, help (be serviceable to) one for a thing,
Romans 8:28 (
A. V. all things work together for good);
τί τίνι εἰς τί, a breviloquence equivalent to
συνεργῶν,
πορίζω τί τίνι, so that according to the reading
πάντα συνεργεῖ ὁ Θεός the meaning is, 'for them that love God, God coworking provides all things for good or so that it is well with them' (Fritzsche) (
R. V. marginal reading
God worketh all things with them for good),
Romans 8:28 Lachmann (
WH in brackets; cf.
Buttmann, 193 (167)) (
ἑαυτοῖς τά συμφέροντα,
Xenophon, mem. 3, 5, 16). Cf. Fritzsche, Ep. ad Romans, vol. ii, p. 193f.