Word Summary
synkamptō: to bend together
Original Word: συγκάμπτωTransliteration: synkamptō
Phonetic Spelling: (soong-kamp'-to)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to bend together
Meaning: to bend together
Strong's Concordance
bow down.
From sun and kampto; to bend together, i.e. (figuratively) to afflict -- bow down.
see GREEK sun
see GREEK kampto
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4781: συγκάμπτωσυγκάμπτω (
T WH συνκάμπτω (cf.
σύν, II. at the end)): 1 aorist imperative
σύγκαμψον;
to bend together, to bend completely:
τόν νῶτον τίνος (
A. V. to bow down one's back) i. e. metaphorically,
to subject one to error and hardness of heart, a figure taken from the bowing of the back by captives compelled to pass under the yoke,
Romans 11:10, from
Psalm 68:24 (). (Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, others.)