σύντροφος, συντροφου, ὁ (συντρέφω) (from Herodotus down), "nourished with one (Vulg.collactaneus (English foster-brother)); brought up with one; universally, companion of one's childhood and youth": τίνος (of some prince or king), Act_13:1. (1Ma_1:6; 2Ma_9:29; Polybius 5, 9, 4; Diodorus 1, 53; Josephus, b. j. 1, 10, 9; Aelian v. h. 12, 26.)

σύντροφος syntrophos 1x nursed with another; one brought up (NIV) or educated with another, intimate friend, friend of the court (RSV) Act_13:1

σύν -τροφος , -ον , ὁ ( < συντρέφομαι , to be brought up together ), [in LXX : 1Ki_12:24 , 1Ma_1:6 R , 2Ma_9:29 * ;] 1. prop ., one nourished or brought up with, a foster-brother: Act_13:1 EV. 2. In Hellenistic usage, as a court term, an intimate friend of a king ( v. Deiss., BS , 305, 310 f .): Act_13:1 ( cf. also MM , xxiv).†

σύντροφος [page 615] For the lit. meaning foster-brother cf. PSI VI. 584 .5 (iii/B.C.) ὁ ἀποδιδούς σοι τὴν ἐπιστολὴν τυγχάνει ὢν Βιαίου σύντροφος , P Oxy VII. 1034 .2 (ii/A.D.) κληρονόμους καταλείπω τὴν θυγατέρ [α ] μου τινὰ καὶ ντονύ σύντροφον αὐτῆς τινὰ καί τινα , I leave as my heirs my daughter x and her foster-brother y and z (Ed.), P Ryl II. 106 .3 (A.D. 158) παρὰ Καπίτωνος συντρφου ἀπελευθέρου Πτολεμᾶς μητρὸς Τασουχαρίου , from Capiton, foster-brother and freedman of Ptolema, his mother being Tasoucharion (Edd.), and the Phrygian sepulchral inscr. cited by W. M. Ramsay ( Bearing , p. 189) Μένανδρος Ἵππω - νος καὶ Ἀμειὰς Τεί - μωνι θρεπτῷ , καὶ Ἀπολλώνιος καὶ Διονύσιος συν - τρόφῳ ὑπὲρ τῶν εἰδίων Διῒ Βρον - τῶντι , Menander son of Hippon and Amias to Timon their foster-child, and Apollonios and Dionysios to their foster-brother on behalf of the family s (salvation) to Zeus the Thunderer (a vow). See also an inscr. from Thyatira in CR iii. p. 138, No. 17 Πειλᾶ Νήφοντι νέῳ χρηστῷ συντρόφῳ μνείας χάριν . The word is similarly rendered foster-brother in AV marg., RV, but from its widespread use as a court title, it is better understood as = courtier or intimate friend : see e.g. the Pergamene inscr. Cagnat IV. 288 .2 σύντροφ ]ος τοῦ βασιλέως , and the inscr. from Delos of the Ist half of ii/B.C., OGIS 247 .2 , where Heliodorus is described as τὸν σύντροφον τοῦ βασιλέως Σ [ελεύκου ] Φιλοπάτορος : Dittenberger ad l . defines the word as denoting hominem re vera una cum rege educatum. Cf. OGIS 372 .2 , and Syll 365 (= .3 798) .6 (A.D. 37) τοὺς Κότυος δὲ παῖδας Ῥοιμητάλκην καὶ Πολέμωνα καὶ Κότυν συντρόφους καὶ ἑταίρους ἑταίρους ἑαυτῶι γεγονότας . The word occurs as a proper name in P Oxy I. 113 .26 (ii/A.D.). See further Deissmann BS p. 310 ff. MGr σύντροφος , companion.

σύντροφος σύντροφος, ον, [Etym: συντρέφω] "brought up together with" another, c. dat., Hdt. , Ar. :—often of domestic animals, Hdt. , Xen. :—absol., τὸ ς. γένος the people "bred up with" me, Soph. generally, "living with", id=Soph. ; ς. ὄμμα the eye or presence "of a companion", id=Soph. ; ς. ὢν (sc. ἀνάγκαις) being "born to" difficulties, Eur. of things, "having grown up with one, congenital, natural", Soph. ; τὰ ξύντροφα "every-day" evils, Thuc. :— ς. τινι "natural or habitual to", τῇ Ἑλλάδι πενίη σύντροφος Hdt. act. "a helping in the preservation", τινος "of" a thing, Xen.

σύν-τροφος, -ου, ὁ (συντρέφομαι, to be brought up together) [in LXX: 3Ki.12:24, 1Ma.1:6 R, 2Ma.9:29 * ;] __1. prop., one nourished or brought up with, a foster-brother: Act.13:1 EV. __2. In Hellenistic usage, as a court term, an intimate friend of a king (see Deiss., BS, 305, 310 f.): Act.13:1 (cf. also MM, xxiv).† (AS)