συμβαίνω (ξυμβαίνω Rec.bez in 1Pe_4:12; see Sigma, at the end); imperfect συνέβαινον; 2 aorist συνεβην, participle συμβάς; perfect συμβέβηκα; from (Aeschylus), Herodotus down; 1. to walk with the feet near together. 2. to come together, meet with one; hence, 3. of things which fall out at the same time, to happen, turn out, come to pass (so occasionally in the Sept for χΘψΘδ and χΘψΘΰ); as very often in Greek writings (the Sept. Gen_42:4; Gen_44:29), συμβαινει τί τίνι, something befalls, happens to, one: Mar_10:32; Act_20:19; 1Co_10:11; (1Pe_4:12); 2Pe_2:22; τό συμβεβηκός τίνι, Act_3:10 (Susanna 26); absolutely, τά συμβεβηκότα, the things that had happened, Luk_24:14 (1Ma_4:26; (Josephus, contra Apion 1, 22, 17)); συνέβη followed by an accusative with an infinitive it happened (A. V. so it was) that, etc.: Act_21:35 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 323 (303)), examples from secular authors are given by Grimm on 2Ma_3:2.

συμβαίνω symbainō 8x to step or come together; to happen, meet, fall out, Mar_10:32 ; Luk_24:14 ; Act_3:10 ; Act_20:19 ; Act_21:35 ; 1Co_10:11 ; 1Pe_4:12 ; 2Pe_2:22

συμ -βαίνω , [in LXX for H6213 , H7121 , H7136 , etc.;] 1. to stand with the feet together. 2. to come together, come to terms. 3. Of events, to come to pass , happen: c. dat. pers ., Mar_10:32 , Act_3:10 ; Act_20:19 , 1Co_10:11 , 1Pe_4:12 , 2Pe_2:22 ; absol. , τὰ σνμβεβηκότα , Luk_24:14 ( cf. 1Ma_4:26 ); c . acc et nf., Act_21:35 .†

συμβαίνω [page 597] συμβαίνω is common of events = come to pass, happen : P Petr II. 19 (2) .8 (iii/B.C.) δέομαι οὖν σου βοηθῆσαί μοι ἵνα μὴ συνβῆι μοι καὶ ἐν τῆι φυλακῆι κατα φθαρῆναι PSI IV. 340 .1 (B.C. 257 6) νῦν οὖν συμβαίνει αὐτῶι ἀσχ̣[η ]μ̣ονεῖν , P Hamb I. 27 .2 (B.C. 250) συνέβη οὖμ μοι ἐνοχληθῆναι . ( be engaged ) ἐμ Φιλαδελφείαι , BGU IV. 1060 .23 (time of Augustus) ἡμᾶς δὲ συμβαίνει τὰ καθήκοντα αὐτῶν διορθοῦσθαι , P Oxy I. 105 .6 (Will A.D. 117 137) ἐὰν δὲ συμβῇ . . . ἀδιάθετον τελευτῆσαι , if I should happen to die with this will unchanged, P Tebt II. 335 .19 (mid. iii/A.D.) ἐκεῖ οὐκοῦν συμβέβ [ηκε , there therefore it happened, and P Oxy VII. 1065 .5 (iii/A.D.) διὰ τὰ συμβάντα μοι . In ib . I. 52 .11 (A.D. 325) we have a report regarding a daughter who had been injured ἐκ τοῦ συμβάντος πτώματος τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ , by the fall of his (her father s) house which had occurred (Edd.).

συμβαίνω fut. -βήσομαι perf. -βέβηκα 3rd pl. sync. -βεβᾶσι ionic inf. -βεβάναι aor2 συνέβην inf. συμβῆναι 3rd sg. aor1 subj. ξυμβα^θῇ perf. inf. βεβάσθαι Pass., "to stand with the feet together", opp. to διαβαίνειν, Xen. "to stand with, so as to assist", Soph. ; ς. κακοῖς, i. e. increase them, Eur. "to meet", τινί Xen. ; συμβέβηκεν οὐδαμοῦ "has" never "come in my way, has had" naught "to do with me", Eur. metaph. "to come together, come to an agreement, come to terms", Lat. convenire, τινί with another, Hdt. , attic; c. inf., ς. ὑπήκοοι εἶναι Thuc. ; Pass., of the terms, "to be agreed on", id=Thuc. of things, "to coincide or correspond with", c. dat., Hdt. , attic:—absol., Trag. , etc. "to fall to one's lot", c. dat. pers., Eur. , Dem. of events, "to come to pass, happen", Lat. contingere, Aesch. , Plat. , etc.:—impers., συνέβη μοι, c. inf., "it happened" to me to do a thing, Hdt. , etc.; also c. acc. "it happened" that I did, id=Hdt. , Thuc. , etc.: ξυμβαίνει c. inf. "it happens" to be, i. e. "it is" so and so, Plat. : —τὸ συμβεβηκός "a chance event, contingency", Dem. ; so, τὰ συμβαίνοντα Xen. ; τὰ συμβάντα id=Xen. joined with Adverbs or Adjectives, "to turn out" in a certain way, ὀρθῶς συνέβαινε Hdt. ; κακῶς, καλῶς ξυμβῆναι Xen. , etc. of consequences, "to result, follow", Thuc. : so, of logical conclusions, Plat.

συμ-βαίνω [in LXX for עָשָׂה, קָרָא, קָרָה, etc. ;] __1. to stand with the feet together. __2. to come together, come to terms. __3. Of events, to come to pass, happen: with dative of person(s), Mrk.10:32, Act.3:10 20:19, 1Co.10:11, 1Pe.4:12, 2Pe.2:22; absol., τὰ σνμβεβηκότα, Luk.24:14 (cf. 1Ma.4:26); with accusative and nf., Act.21:35.† (AS)