Lexical Summary synōdinō: to be in travail together Original Word: συνωδίνωTransliteration: synōdinō Phonetic Spelling: (soon-o-dee'-no) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be in travail together Meaning: to be in travail together Strong's Concordance suffer togetherFrom sun and odino; to have (parturition) pangs in company (concert, simultaneously) with, i.e. (figuratively) to sympathize (in expectation of relief from suffering) -- travail in pain together. see GREEK sun see GREEK odino Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4944: συνωδίνωσυνωδίνω; a. properly, to feel the pains of travail with, be in travail together: οἶδε ἐπί τῶν ζοωον τάς ὠδῖνας ὁ σύνοικος καί συνωδίνει γέ τά πολλά ὥσπερ καί ἀλεκτρυονες, Porphyry, de abstin. 3, 10; (cf. Aristotle, eth. Eud. 7, 6, p. 1240a, 36). b. metaphorically, to undergo agony (like a woman in childbirth) along with: Romans 8:22 (where σύν refers to the several parts of which ἡ κτίσις consists, cf. Meyer at the passage); κακοῖς, Euripides, Hel. 727. |
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