sumbibazō (to join with)

Meaning

Usually translated “being knit together”, “proving” and “concluding”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

being knit together 2
proving 1
concluding 1
brought forward 1
will instruct 1
being held together 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Acts 3
Colossians 2
1 Corinthians 1
Ephesians 1

4 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Acts 16:10And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.
Acts 19:33And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people.
1 Corinthians 2:16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Ephesians 4:16From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Colossians 2:2That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
Colossians 2:19And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

Greek dictionary

συμβιβάζω sumbibazō · to join with

συν-βιβάζω (Rec. συμ-), [in LXX: Exo.4:12, 15, Lev.10:11, Jdg.13:8, Psa.32:8 (יָרָה hi.); Exo.18:16, Deu.4:9, Isa.40:13 (יָדַע hi.), Isa.40:14 (בִּין hi.), Da TH Dan.9:22 (שָׂכַל hi.) * ;] 1. to join or knit together, unite: Eph.4:16, Col.2:2 (but see infr.), Col.2:19. 2. to compare, consider, conclude (Plat.): Act.16:10. 3. to deduce, prove, demonstrate (Arist.): Act.9:22. 4. As in LXX ("translation Greek," = ἐμβιβάζω, metaphorically), to teach, instruct: 1Co.2:16 Act.19:33, R, mg. (also in Vg., Col.2:2, instructi, but see supr.).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “proving” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

PROVING, participle present

tense Trying; ascertaining; evincing; experiencing.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.