UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Notes: σύζυγος seems to differ in meaning from συνεργός fellow worker (42.44: συνεργός) in implying a closer relationship with greater sharing of responsibility.

Form 1

Part of speech: adjc.

Inflections: σύζυγος; -ου

Related lemmas: ζυγός

Sense 1: fellow worker

Semantic entry: 42.45

Semantic domains: Perform, Do

Subdomains: Work, Toil

Definition: one who is closely linked with another in some activity{N:001}

Notes: Some scholars, however, interpret σύζυγος in OET PHP 4:3 as being a proper name.

Show passage in OET: PHP 4:3

OET-RV PHP 4:3

3 and yes, I’m asking you, my true companion, to help those two women who worked hard with me to share the good message, along with Klemes and the others who also worked with me and whose names are written in the book of life.

OET-LV PHP 4:3

3 Yes, I _am _asking also you, genuine companion, be _giving _help to _them, who in the good _message contended _together with _me, with both Klaʸmaʸs and the rest of_the_fellow-workers of _me, whose the names are in the_scroll of _life.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

σύζυγος

Form 1

Sense 1: fellow worker