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Notes: In a number of languages the expression ‘to show oneself to be’ may best be rendered as ‘to cause people to know that one is,’ and therefore this expression in RV CO2 6:4 · LV CO2 6:4 · Read together CO2 6:4 may be rendered as ‘in everything causing people to know by what we do that we are servants of God.’

ROM 3:5: RV ROM 3:5 · LV ROM 3:5 · Read together ROM 3:5

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5 But if our sinfulness highlights God’s sinlessness, what can we say about that? Isn’t God, the one inflicting the severe anger, wrong to punish us? (Of course, this is reasoning from a human perspective.)

OET-LV ROM 3:5

5 But if the unrighteousness of _us, of_god the_righteousness is _demonstrating, what we _will _be _saying?
Not unrighteous is the god, the one inflicting the severe _anger?
(According _to human _origin I _am _speaking.
)

ROM 5:8: RV ROM 5:8 · LV ROM 5:8 · Read together ROM 5:8

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8 but God demonstrated his love towards us in that the messiah died for us while we were still sinners!

OET-LV ROM 5:8

8 But is _demonstrating the of _himself love to us the god, that still sinners being of _us, chosen _one /messiah for us died _off.

All 5 recorded passages for this sense

ROM: RV ROM 3:5 · RV ROM 5:8 · LV ROM 3:5 · LV ROM 5:8 · Read together ROM 3:5 · Read together ROM 5:8

CO2: RV CO2 6:4 · RV CO2 7:11 · LV CO2 6:4 · LV CO2 7:11 · Read together CO2 6:4 · Read together CO2 7:11

GAL: RV GAL 2:18 · LV GAL 2:18 · Read together GAL 2:18

Sense 3: to hold together

Semantic entry: 63.6

Semantic domains: Whole, Unite, Part, Divide

Subdomains: Unite

Definition: to bring together or hold together something in its proper or appropriate place or relationship

Notes: In RV COL 1:17 · LV COL 1:17 · Read together COL 1:17 it may not be easy to indicate clearly the relationship of the phrase ‘in him’ to the rest of the expression, namely, ‘all things hold together.’ Some translations have expanded the expression ‘in him’ to ‘in union with him’ or ‘in view of the fact that we are joined together with him.’|It is also possible to understand ἐν αὐτῷ as indicating agent, so that this expression in RV COL 1:17 · LV COL 1:17 · Read together COL 1:17 may mean ‘by means of him all things hold together.’

COL 1:17: RV COL 1:17 · LV COL 1:17 · Read together COL 1:17

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17 He came before everything and everything still only exists because of him.

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17 And he is before all things, and all the things in him has _consisted.

Sense 4: to stand with

Semantic entry: 17.2

Semantic domains: Stances and Events Related to Stances

Subdomains: Stand

Definition: to stand together with someone

Notes: It is, of course, essential to avoid the idiomatic meaning of ‘to stand with’ in a sense of ‘to support.’ In this context the emphasis is simply upon being present with.

Forms: συνίσταμαι (and perfect active)

LUK 9:32: RV LUK 9:32 · LV LUK 9:32 · Read together LUK 9:32

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32 Kefa and the others had been exhausted and fallen asleep, but when they woke up they saw the radiance of Yeshua and the other two standing there with him,

OET-LV LUK 9:32

32 And the Petros and the ones with him were having _been _weighed _down with _sleep, but having _fully _awoken they _saw the glory of _him, and the two men which having _stood _with with _him.

Sense 5: to come into existence, to be formed

Semantic entry: 13.82

Semantic domains: Be, Become, Exist, Happen

Subdomains: Exist

Definition: to come into existence, with the implication of acquiring form and substance

Forms: συνίσταμαι (and perfect active)

PE2 3:5: RV PE2 3:5 · LV PE2 3:5 · Read together PE2 3:5

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5 But because of their desires, the truth is hidden from them that the universe came into being long ago by God’s spoken command and the earth was formed out of water and through water

OET-LV PE2 3:5

5 For/Because this is _escaping _notice them willing, that the_heavens were anciently, and the_earth having _consisted out _of water and through water by _the message of_ the _god,

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

συνίστημι

Form 1

Sense 1: to recommend

Sense 2: to make known by action, to demonstrate, to show

Sense 3: to hold together

Sense 4: to stand with

Sense 5: to come into existence, to be formed