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Encounter

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: συμβάλλω

(Strong's #4820 — Verb — sumballo — soom-bal'-lo )

lit., "to throw together" (sun, "with," ballo, "to throw"), is used of "encountering" in war, Luke 14:31 , RV, "to encounter ... (in war)," for AV, "to make war against;" of meeting in order to discuss, in Acts 17:18 , "encountered," of the philosophers in Athens and the Apostle. See CONFER , HELP , MAKE , MEET , PONDER.

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Encounter'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​e/encounter.html. 1940.
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