ΣΥΜΠΟΛΕΜΕΙΝ, συμπολεμειν
SYMPOLEMEIN, sympolemein
Sounds Like: soom-po-le-MEIN
Translations: to fight with, to make war with, to contend with, to help in war
From the root: ΣΥΜΠΟΛΕΜΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb formed from the preposition ΣΥΝ (SYN), meaning 'with' or 'together', and the verb ΠΟΛΕΜΕΩ (POLEMEŌ), meaning 'to make war' or 'to fight'. Therefore, it means to fight alongside someone, to join in a war, or to be an ally in conflict. It describes the action of participating in a struggle or battle together with others.
Inflection: Present, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G4842 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 14 — 4:73
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 8:13
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΥΜΠΟΛΕΜΕΩ.
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.
- ΣΥΜΠΕΠΟΛΕΜΗΚΟΣΙ — having fought with, having warred with, having been fellow soldiers with, to those who have fought with
- ΣΥΜΠΟΛΕΜΕΩ — to fight with, to make war with, to contend with, to be a fellow-soldier
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