συνίστημι (sunistaʸmi) — to recommend / to make known by action / to demonstrate

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: συνίστημι; aor.; συνέστησα; συνίστημι; pf.; συνέστηκα; συνίστημι; ptc.; συνεστώς

Related lemmas: ἵστημι

Sense 1: to recommend

Semantic entry: 33.344

Semantic domains: Communication

Subdomains: Recommend, Propose

Definition: to indicate approval of a person or event, with the implication that others adopt the same attitude

Show passage in OET: ROM 16:1

OET-RV ROM 16:1

16 I’m commending our sister Foibe (Phoebe) to you, brothers and sisters—she’s a servant in the assembly at Kegkreai.

OET-LV ROM 16:1

16 And I _am _commending to _you _all Foibaʸ, the sister of _us, being also a_servant of _the assembly which in Kegⱪreai,

Show passage in OET: CO2 3:1

OET-RV CO2 3:1

3 Oh, are we beginning to pat ourselves on the back again? Don’t we need written references for you all, or from you all, like some others do?

OET-LV CO2 3:1

3 We _are _beginning again ourselves to _be _commending?
Or not we _are _needing, as some, of _commendatory letters to you _all or from you _all?

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All 7 recorded passages for this sense

ROM: OET ROM 16:1

CO2: OET CO2 3:1 · OET CO2 4:2 · OET CO2 5:12 · OET CO2 10:12 · OET CO2 10:18 · OET CO2 12:11

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

Semantic entry: 28.49

Semantic domains: Know

Subdomains: Well Known, Clearly Shown, Revealed

Definition: to cause something to be known by action

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 OET CO2 6:4 may be rendered as ‘in everything causing people to know by what we do that we are servants of God.’

Show passage in OET: ROM 3:5

OET-RV ROM 3:5

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.
)

Show passage in OET: ROM 5:8

OET-RV ROM 5:8

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.

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All 5 recorded passages for this sense

ROM: OET ROM 3:5 · OET ROM 5:8

CO2: OET CO2 6:4 · OET CO2 7:11

GAL: OET 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 OET 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 OET COL 1:17 may mean ‘by means of him all things hold together.’

Show passage in OET: COL 1:17

OET-RV COL 1:17

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

OET-LV COL 1:17

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

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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)

Show passage in OET: LUK 9:32

OET-RV LUK 9:32

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.

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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)

Show passage in OET: PE2 3:5

OET-RV PE2 3:5

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,

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament