ΣΥΜΠΑΘΕΙΝ, συμπαθειν
SYMPATHEIN, sympathein
Sounds Like: soom-pa-THEIN
Translations: to sympathize, to suffer with, to feel with
From the root: ΣΥΜΠΑΘΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound verb meaning 'to suffer with' or 'to feel with' someone. It describes the act of sharing in the feelings or experiences of another, often implying compassion or empathy. It is used to express solidarity or understanding of another's pain or joy.
Inflection: Present, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G4834 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Smyrnaeans — 4:2
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 20:24
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΥΜΠΑΘΕΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΣΥΜΠΑΘΕΙ — sympathizes, feels with, suffers with, has compassion on
- ΣΥΜΠΑΘΕΙΣΘΑΙ — to sympathize, to feel with, to suffer with
- ΣΥΜΠΑΘΕΙΤΩ — let him sympathize, let him suffer with, let him have compassion
- ΣΥΜΠΑΘΕΩ — to sympathize, to feel with, to have compassion, to suffer with
- ΣΥΜΠΑΘΟΥΣΗΣ — sympathizing, feeling with, having compassion, suffering with
- ΣΥΜΠΑΘΩΝ — sympathizing, suffering with, having compassion, feeling with
- ΣΥΜΠΑΘΩΣ — sympathetically, with sympathy, compassionately
- ΣΥΜΠΑΤΗΘΕΝΤΕΣ — having suffered with, having sympathized, having felt with
- ΣΥΝΕΠΑΘΗΣΑΤΕ — you suffered with, you sympathized with, you felt with
- ΣΥΝΕΠΑΘΗΣΕ — sympathized, felt with, suffered with
- ΣΥΝΠΑΘΗΣΑΙ — to sympathize, to feel with, to have compassion, to suffer with
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