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Strong's #4911 - συνεφίστημι
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- to place over or appoint together
- to rise up together
- against one
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συνεφ-ίστημι
and συνεφ-ιστάνω (Plb. 7.13.2): aor. 1 -επέστησα Demad. 57: —
set as watchers or guards, τοὺς ἱππεῖς D.S. 17.84: metaph., set on the watch, make attentive, τοὺς ἀναγινώσκοντας Plb. 10.41.6; τινὰ ἐπὶ τὰς μάχας Id. 11.19.2; τοὺς φιλοπευστοῦντας περί τινων Id. 3.59.6.
2. seemingly intr. (sc. τὸν νοῦν), attend to, observe along with, ἐπὶ τὰ λεγόμενα Id. 3.9.4; τοῖς ὑπομνήμασι Id. 9.2.7, cf. 4.40.10, etc.; dub. l. in Vett.Val. 241.15.
II Pass. συνεφίστᾰμαι, with aor. 2 Act., stand over, superintend along with or together, Th. 2.75.
2. rise together, κατά τινων against them, Acts 16:22.
3. occur together, τινι with.., Dsc. Ther.Praef., v.l. for συνυφ- in Porph. Sent. 27.
συνεφίστημι: to place over or appoint together; 2 aorist συνεπέστην; to rise up together: κατά τίνος, against one, Acts 16:22. ((From Thucydides down.))
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* συν -εφ -ίστημι ,
to place over. Pass.,
1. to stand over (Thuc.).
2. to rise together: seq. κατά , c. gen. pers. (against), Acts 16:22. †
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On the verso of P Oxy I. 79 (notification of death—A.D. 181–192) certain moral precepts have been written in a rude hand, beginning μηδὲν ταπινὸν μηδὲ ἀγενὲς. . . πράξῃς, ";do nothing mean or ignoble."; Other exx. of the adj., which survives in MGr, are P Lond 131 recto.309 (A.D. 78–9) (= I. p. 179) ἐν τοῖς ταπεινοῖς τόποις, ib. 1917.7 (c. A.D. 330–340) a request for prayer διὰ ἐμοῦ τῷ ταπινῷ καὶ ταλεπώρῳ (l. τοῦ ταπεινοῦ καὶ ταλαιπώρου), ";for me the humble and wretched,"; and P Gen I. 14.7 (Byz.) μετὰ τῶν ταπεινῶν μου παίδων, and .15 τὰ ταπεινά μου ἄλογα.
It is hardly necessary to recall that ";humility as a sovereign grace is the creation of Christianity"; (W. E. Gladstone, Life iii. p. 466). Its history in pagan ethics may be illustrated in Epict. iii. 2. 14 ἄνθρωπον. . ταπεινόν, μεμψίμοιρον, ὀξύθυμον, δειλόν, κτλ., and iv. 1. 2 τίς θέλει ζῆν ἐξαπατώμενος, προπίπτων. . . μεμψίμοιρος, ταπεινός;
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