συνέκδημ-ος G4898
fellow traveler, traveling companion
This noun describes someone who travels in company with others on a journey. Acts 19:29 identifies Gaius and Aristarchus as Paul's traveling companions from Macedonia who were seized during the Ephesian riot. Second Corinthians 8:19 mentions a brother chosen by the churches to travel with Paul carrying the collection. The term emphasizes shared mission and journey.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Denotes a person who accompanies another on a journey, a co-traveler or companion in travel, especially on missionary journeys. The cross-lingual glosses (Spanish 'compañero de viaje,' French 'compagnon-de-voyage,' German 'Reisebegleiter') all maintain the travel-companion concept. Both NT occurrences involve Paul's missionary associates: those caught up in danger with him at Ephesus (Acts 19:29) and one chosen to ensure accountability while transporting church funds (2 Cor 8:19). 2×
AR["رَفيقَ-سَفَرِنا", "رَفِيقَيْ-سَفَرِ"]·ben["সঙ্গী", "সহযাত্রী"]·DE["Reisebegleiter", "συνεκδήμους"]·EN["fellow-traveler", "traveling-companions"]·FR["compagnon-de-voyage"]·heb["בְּנֵי-לִוְיָה", "חֲבֵר-נְסִיעָה"]·HI["सहयात्री"]·ID["teman-seperjalanan"]·IT["compagno-di-viaggio"]·jav["kanca-lelungan", "kanthèning-lampah"]·KO["동행자가", "동행자들"]·PT["companheiro-de-viagem", "companheiros-de-viagem"]·RU["спутник", "спутников"]·ES["compañero-de-viaje", "compañeros-de-viaje"]·SW["mwenzetu-wa-safari", "wasafiri-pamoja"]·TR["bizim", "yol-arkadaşları"]·urd["ہم-سفر", "ہم-سفری"]
Related Senses
H5971a 1. people, nation (1836×)H5973a 1. accompaniment, together with (956×)H0854 1. with (accompaniment) (665×)H1471a 1. nations, peoples (plural/collective) (466×)G3326 1. with (368×)H1285 1. covenant, pact, treaty (284×)G2453 1. Jewish person, Jew (194×)H4150 1. meeting (tent of meeting) (151×)G2992 1. people/nation (an ethnic or political community) (142×)G4862 1. (129×)G1484 1. Gentiles, non-Jewish nations (128×)H1471a 2. nation, people-group (singular) (98×)H3162b 1. together (97×)H1616 1. sojourner, resident alien (92×)H0567 1. Amorite (people group) (87×)H3064 1. Jew, Jewish person (81×)H3669a 1. Canaanite (ethnic designation) (70×)G1122 1. scribe / expert in the Law (63×)H2114a 1. stranger, foreigner (person) (54×)H5608b 1. scribe, royal secretary (48×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
συνέκδημ-ος, ὁ, fellow-traveller, NT+1st c.AD+; = Latin comes, συνέγδημος Μεσσάλλα τοῦ ἀνθυπάτου Refs 2nd c.AD+: Doric dialect nominative plural συνέγδᾱμοι, of private persons accompanying a public mission, Refs 1st c.BC+ __2 σ. συντάγματα portable handbooks, vade-mecums, Refs 6th c.AD+