Quick Definition
σύσσωμος, ον Adj belonging to the same body
Strong's Definition
from 4862 and 4983; of a joint body, i.e. (figuratively) a fellow-member of the Christian community
KJV Usage: of the same body
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ον | σῶμα
11.9 · Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes · General
co-member a person who is a member of a group, with emphasis upon his coordinate relation to other members of the group The concept of ‘being a co-member’ may be expressed in some languages as ‘a person who is counted along with others,’ so that in EPH 3:6 one may translate ‘the Gentiles are counted along with the Jews in sharing in the promise’ or even ‘the Gentiles along with the Jews share in the promise.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σύσ-σωμος [LT Tr WH ov» (cf. σύν, 11. fin.)], -ον, (σύν and σῶμα), belonging to the same body (i. e. metaph. to the same church) [R. V. fellow-members of the body): Eph. iii. 6. (Eccles. writ.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σύσσωμος syssōmos 1x
united in the same body; met. pl. joint members in a spiritual body, Eph. 3:6*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† σύν-σωμος (Rec. συσσ-), -ον
(< σῶμα),
of the same body: Eph 3:6 (Eccl.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σύνσωμος is found in the NT only in Eph 35, and may have been coined by Paul for the occasion. The word is usually understood as ‘‘fellow-member of the body,” i.e. of the Church, but, as Preuschen has pointed out (ZNV7/V i. (1900), p. 85f.), it cannot then be associated with the following gen. τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, nor is there any real sequence of thought in the three epithets συνκληρονόμα.--σύνσωμα--συνμέτοχα. Accordingly, taking σῶμα in its sense of ‘‘slave” (see s.v.), he thinks that we have a term equivalent to σύνδουλος (Col 17, a/.), and that the meaning is that ‘‘the Gentiles are fellow-heirs and fellow-slaves, and so fellow-partakers of the promise.’’
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
σύσσωμος (sussōmos) — of the same body. σύσσωμ-ος, ον, united in one body, [NT]
