συμφέρω

συμφέρω — symphérō

συμφέρω; 1 aorist participle συνενέγκαντες (Act 19:19); from (Homer (in middle)), Aeschylus, Herodotus down; to bear or bring together (Latinconfero), i. e.

1. with a reference to the object, to bring together: τί, Act 19:19.

2. with a reference to the subject, "to bear together or at the same time; to carry with other's; to collect or contribute in order to help, hence, to help, be profitable, be expedient"; συμφέρει, it is expedient, profitable, and in the same sense with a neuter plural: with the subject πάντα, 1Co 6:12; 1Co 10:23; τί τίνι, 2Co 8:10; with an infinitive of the object (as in Greek writings), Mat 19:10; 2Co 12:1 (where L T Tr WH have συμφέρον); with the accusative and infinitive Joh 18:14; συμφέρει τίνι followed by ἵνα (see ἵνα, II. 2c. (Buttmann, § 139, 45; Winer's Grammar, 337 (316))), Mat 5:29; Mat 18:6; Joh 11:50; Joh 16:7. τό συμφέρον, that which is profitable (Sophocles, Euripides, Xenophon, Demosthenes, others): 1Co 12:7; plural (Plato, de rep. 1, p. 341 e.), Act 20:20; advantage, profit, Heb 12:10; τό... σύμφορον τίνος (often in Greek writings) the advantage of one, one's profit, 1Co 7:35; 1Co 10:33 (in both passaagaes, L T Tr WH read σύμφορον, which see).