συμβιβάζω (
WH συνβιβάζω (so 
Tdf. in 
Ephesians 4:16; 
Colossians 2:19); cf. 
σύν, II. at the end); 1 aorist 
βυνεβίβασα (
Acts 19:33 L T Tr WH, but see below); passive, present participle 
συμβιβαζόμενος; 1 aorist participle 
συμβιβασθεις; (
βιβάζω to mount the female, copulate with her; to leap, cover, of animals; allow to be covered, admit to cover); 
1. to cause to coalesce, to join together, put together: 
τό σῶμα, passive, of the parts of the body 'knit together' into one whole, compacted together, 
Ephesians 4:16; 
Colossians 2:19; 
to unite or knit together in affection, passive, 
Colossians 2:2 (cf. 
Winers Grammar, § 63, 2 a.; 
Buttmann, § 144, 13 a.) (to reconcile one to another, 
Herodotus 1, 74; 
Thucydides 2, 29). 
2. to put together in one's mind, to compare; by comparison 
to gather, conclude, consider: followed by 
ὅτι, 
Acts 16:10 (
Plato, Hipp., min., p. 369 d.; de rep. 6, p. 504 a.). 
3. to cause a person to unite with one in a conclusion or come to the same opinion, 
to prove, demonstrate: followed by 
ὅτι, 
Acts 9:22 ((
Aristotle, top. 7, 5, p. 151a, 36); followed by 
ὡς (
Aristotle, rhet. Alex. 4, p. 1426a, 37: etc.); 
Jamblichus, vit. 
Pythagoras c. 13 § 60; followed by the accusative with infinitive, 
Ocellus Lucanus, 3, 3); by a usage purely Biblical, with the accusative of a person, 
to teach, instruct, one: 
1 Corinthians 2:16; for 
הֵבִין, 
Isaiah 40:14; for 
הודִיעַ, 
Exodus 18:16; 
Deuteronomy 4:9; 
Isaiah 40:13, 
Alex., 
Ald., etc.; for 
הורָה, 
Exodus 4:12, 
15; 
Leviticus 10:11; 
בִּינָה הִשְׂכִּיל, 
Theod., 
Daniel 9:22. (The reading 
συνεβίβασαν in 
Acts 19:33, given by manuscripts 
א A B etc. (and adopted by 
L T Tr WH) yields no sense; (but it may be translated (with 
R. V. marginal reading) 'some of the multitude instructed Alexander', etc.; 
R. V. text translates it 
they brought Alexander out of the multitude, etc.).) 
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