suneudokeō (to agree to)

Meaning

Usually translated “consenting”, “consents” and “consent”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

consenting 2
consents 2
you consent 1
they are approving 1

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

Where it's used most

Acts 2
1 Corinthians 2
Luke 1
Romans 1

4 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Acts 8:1And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Acts 22:20And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
Romans 1:32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
1 Corinthians 7:12But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
1 Corinthians 7:13And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

Greek dictionary

συνευδοκέω suneudokeō · to agree to

συν-ευ-δοκέω, -ῶ [in LXX: 1Ma.1:57, 1Ma.4:28 א1, 2Ma.11:24 2Mac 11:35 * ;] to join in approving, consent, agree to or with: absol., Act.22:20; with dative of person(s), Rom.1:32; with dative of thing(s), Luk.11:48, Act.8:1; with inf., 1Co.7:12-13 (chiefly in late writers).† (AS)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

CONSENT, noun

[Latin, to be of one mind, to agree; to think, feel or perceive. See Sense and Assent.]

Agreement of the mind to what is proposed or state by another; accord; hence, a yielding of the mind or will to that which is proposed; as, a parent gives his consent to the marriage of his daughter.“Defraud ye not one another, except with consent for a time” 1 Corinthians 7:5
Accord of minds; agreement; unity of opinion.“All with one consent began to make excuse” Luke 14:18
Agreement; coherence; correspondence in parts, qualities, or operation.
In the animal economy, an agreement, or sympathy, by which one affected part of the system affects some distant part.

All definitions and other forms of “consent”

CONSENT, verb intransitive

[Latin See the Noun.]

Literally, to think with another.“If sinners entice thee, consent thou not” Proverbs 1:10“And Saul was consenting to Stephens death” Acts 8:1“Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us” Genesis 34:23
To agree.“When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him” Psalms 50:18
To assent.“I consent to the law that it is good” Romans 7:16

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