synistaō · commend, show

What it means

synistaō (συνιστάω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “commend, show”.

Commend, recommend; show, prove; also stand with, or hold together.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To present someone as trustworthy.
2. To make something clear: God displays his love.
3. To be beside someone.
4. To cohere, or take shape.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• commend ×3
• commending ×3
• commends ×2
• shows ×2
• I prove ×1
• formed ×1
• have been commended ×1
• hold together ×1
• standing with ×1
• you showed ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Luke×1
• Romans×3
• 2 Corinthians×9
• Galatians×1
• Colossians×1
• 2 Peter×1

• Luke 9:32

  Now Peter and those with him were weighed down with sleep; but becoming fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him.

• Romans 3:5

  But if our unrighteousness shows the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, is not unrighteous, is he? (I speak in a human way.)

• Romans 5:8

  But God shows his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, the Messiah died for us.

• Romans 16:1

  Now I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is also a servant of the assembly in Cenchreae,

• 2 Corinthians 3:1

  Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or surely we do not need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

• 2 Corinthians 4:2

  But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in cunning nor falsifying the word of God, but by the open display of the truth commending ourselves to every person’s conscience before God.

• 2 Corinthians 5:12

  We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an occasion of boasting about us, so that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

• 2 Corinthians 6:4

  but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God: in great perseverance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

• 2 Corinthians 7:11

  For look at this very thing, being grieved according to God: how much earnestness it produced in you, even defense, even indignation, even fear, even longing, even zeal, even punishment! In everything you showed yourselves to be pure in the matter.

• 2 Corinthians 10:12

  For we do not dare to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but they, measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves with themselves, do not understand.

• 2 Corinthians 10:18

  For not the one who commends himself, that one is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

• 2 Corinthians 12:11

  I have become a fool; you forced me to it. For I ought to have been commended by you; for I fell short in nothing of those super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

• Galatians 2:18

  For if what I tore down, these things I build again, I prove myself to be a transgressor.

• Colossians 1:17

  And he is before all things, and all things hold together in him.

• 2 Peter 3:5

  For they deliberately overlook this, that heavens existed long ago and an earth formed out of water and through water by the word of God,

And 1 more times.