Strong's Concordance sumphutos: congenital, hence united with Original Word: σύμφυτος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: sumphutos Phonetic Spelling: (soom'-foo-tos) Definition: congenital, united with Usage: grown together, united with. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom sumphuó Definition congenital, hence united with NASB Translation united (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4854: σύμφυτοςσύμφυτος, συμφυτον (συμφύω), planted together (Vulg.complantatus); born together with, of joint origin, i. e. 1. connate, congenital, innate, implanted by birth or nature (3Macc. 3:22; Pindar, Plato, Aeschylus, Aeschines, Aristotle, Philo de Abrah. § 31 at the beginning; Josephus (as, contra Apion 1, 8, 5)). 2. grown together, united with (Theophrastus, de caus. plant. 5, 5, 2); kindred (Plato, Phaedr., p. 246 a.): εἰ σύμφυτοι γεγόναμεν τῷ ὁμοιώματι τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ, ἀλλά καί (namely, τῷ ὁμοιώματι (others supply Χριστῷ, and take the ὁμοιώματι a dative of respect; for yet another construction of the second clause cf. Buttmann, § 132, 23)) τῆς ἀναστάσεως ἐσόμεθα, if we have become united with the likeness of his death (which likeness consists in the fact that in the death of Christ our former corruption and wickedness has been slain and been buried in Christ's tomb), i. e. if it is part and parcel of the very nature of a genuine Christian to be utterly dead to sin, we shall be united also with the likeness of his resurrection i. e. our intimate fellowship with his return to life will show itself in a new life consecrated to God, Romans 6:5. From sun and a derivative of phuo; grown along with (connate), i.e. (figuratively) closely united to -- planted together. see GREEK sun see GREEK phuo |