Word Summary
synergos: a fellow worker
Original Word: συνεργόςTransliteration: synergos
Phonetic Spelling: (soon-er-gos')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: a fellow worker
Meaning: a fellow worker
Strong's Concordance
a fellow worker
From a presumed compound of sun and the base of ergon; a co-laborer, i.e. Coadjutor -- companion in labour, (fellow-)helper(-labourer, -worker), labourer together with, workfellow.
see GREEK sun
see GREEK ergon
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4904: συνεργόςσυνεργός,
συνεργόν (
σύν and
ἘΡΓΩ) (from
Pindar),
Euripides,
Thucydides down,
a companion in work, fellow-worker (
Vulg.adjutor (
Philippians 2:25;
3 John 1:8 co-operator)): in the N. T. with a genitive of the person, one who labors with another in furthering the cause of Christ,
Romans 16:3, 9, 21;
Philippians 2:25;
Philippians 4:3; (
1 Thessalonians 3:2 Rec.);
Philemon 1:1, 24;
Θεοῦ, one whom God employs as an assistant, as it were (a fellow-worker with God),
1 Thessalonians 3:2 (
G L text
WH marginal reading but with
τοῦ Θεοῦ in brackets;
Rec. et al.
διάκονον, which see 1). plural:
1 Corinthians 3:9; with the genitive of the thing (
a joint-promoter (
A. V. helper)),
συνεργοί ἐσμεν τῆς χαρᾶς, we labor with you to the end that we may rejoice in your Christian state,
2 Corinthians 1:24.
εἰς ὑμᾶς (my) fellow-worker to you-ward, in reference to you,
2 Corinthians 8:23;
εἰς τήν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ, for the advancement of the kingdom of God,
Colossians 4:11;
τῇ ἀλήθεια, for (the benefit of) the truth (others render (so
R. V.) 'with the truth'; see Westcott at the passage),
3 John 1:8. (2 Macc. 8:7 2Macc. 14:5.)