bring together, be expedient, be profitable for.
From sun and phero (including its alternate); to bear together (contribute), i.e. (literally) to collect, or (figuratively) to conduce; especially (neuter participle as a noun) advantage -- be better for, bring together, be expedient (for), be good, (be) profit(-able for).
see GREEK sun
see GREEK phero
Strong's 4851: συμφέρω
συμφέρω; 1 aorist participle
συνενέγκαντες (
Acts 19:19); from (Homer (in middle)), Aeschylus, Herodotus down;
to bear or bring together (Latin
confero), i. e.
1. with a reference to the object, to bring together: τί, Acts 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, 1 Corinthians 6:12; 1 Corinthians 10:23; τίτίνι, 2 Corinthians 8:10; with an infinitive of the object (as in Greek writings), Matthew 19:10; 2 Corinthians 12:1 (where L T Tr WH have συμφέρον); with the accusative and infinitive John 18:14; συμφέρειτίνι followed by ἵνα (see ἵνα, II. 2c. (Buttmann, § 139, 45; Winer's Grammar, 337 (316))), Matthew 5:29; Matthew 18:6; John 11:50; John 16:7. τόσυμφέρον, that which is profitable (Sophocles, Euripides, Xenophon, Demosthenes, others): 1 Corinthians 12:7; plural (Plato, de rep. 1, p. 341 e.), Acts 20:20; advantage, profit,Hebrews 12:10; τό ... σύμφοροντίνος (often in Greek writings) the advantage of one, one's profit, 1 Corinthians 7:35; 1 Corinthians 10:33 (in both passaagaes, L T Tr WH read σύμφορον, which see).
Strong's Greek: 4851. συμφέρω (sumphero) — 17 Occurrences
Matthew 5:29 - V-PIA-3S
GRK:ἀπὸ σοῦ συμφέρει γάρ σοι
NAS: it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose
KJV: for it is profitable for thee
INT: from you it is better indeed for you
Matthew 5:30 - V-PIA-3S
GRK:ἀπὸ σοῦ συμφέρει γάρ σοι
NAS: and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one
KJV: for it is profitable for thee
INT: from you it is better indeed for you
Matthew 18:6 - V-PIA-3S
GRK:εἰς ἐμέ συμφέρει αὐτῷ ἵνα
NAS: in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy
KJV: in me, it were better for him that
INT: in me it is better for him that
Matthew 19:10 - V-PIA-3S
GRK:γυναικός οὐ συμφέρει γαμῆσαι
NAS: is like this, it is better not to marry.
KJV: it is not good to marry.
INT: wife not it is better to marry
John 11:50 - V-PIA-3S
GRK:λογίζεσθε ὅτι συμφέρει ὑμῖν ἵνα
NAS: do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one
KJV: that it is expedient for us,
INT: consider you that it is profitable for us that
John 16:7 - V-PIA-3S
GRK:λέγω ὑμῖν συμφέρει ὑμῖν ἵνα
NAS: you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go
KJV: the truth; It is expedient for you
INT: say to you It is profitable for you that
John 18:14 - V-PIA-3S
GRK:Ἰουδαίοις ὅτι συμφέρει ἕνα ἄνθρωπον
NAS: the Jews that it was expedient for one
KJV: that it was expedient that one
INT: Jews that it is profitable for one man
Acts 19:19 - V-APA-NMP
GRK:περίεργα πραξάντων συνενέγκαντες τὰς βίβλους
NAS: magic brought their books
KJV: their books together, and burned them
INT: magic arts had practiced having brought the books
Acts 20:20 - V-PPA-GNP
GRK:ὑπεστειλάμην τῶν συμφερόντων τοῦ μὴ
NAS: to you anything that was profitable, and teaching
KJV: nothing that was profitable [unto you], but
INT: I kept back of what is profitable of the not
1 Corinthians 6:12 - V-PIA-3S
GRK:οὐ πάντα συμφέρει πάντα μοι
NAS: for me, but not all things are profitable. All things
KJV: not expedient: all things
INT: not all things do profit all things to me
1 Corinthians 7:35 - Adj-ANS
GRK:ὑμῶν αὐτῶν σύμφορον λέγω οὐχ
NAS: for your own benefit; not to put
KJV: your own profit; not that
INT: of you yourselves benefit I say not
1 Corinthians 10:23 - V-PIA-3S
GRK:οὐ πάντα συμφέρει πάντα ἔξεστιν
NAS: things are profitable. All things
KJV: not expedient: all things
INT: not all things are profitable All things are lawful
1 Corinthians 10:33 - Adj-ANS
GRK:τὸ ἐμαυτοῦ σύμφορον ἀλλὰ τὸ
NAS: my own profit but the [profit] of the many,
KJV: mine own profit, but
INT: the of myself profit but that
1 Corinthians 12:7 - V-PPA-ANS
GRK:πρὸς τὸ συμφέρον
NAS: of the Spirit for the common good.
KJV: to every man to profit withal.
INT: for the common good
2 Corinthians 8:10 - V-PIA-3S
GRK:γὰρ ὑμῖν συμφέρει οἵτινες οὐ
NAS: in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who
KJV: for this is expedient for you, who
INT: indeed for you is profitable who not
2 Corinthians 12:1 - V-PPA-ANS
GRK:δεῖ οὐ συμφέρον μέν ἐλεύσομαι
NAS: though it is not profitable; but I will go
KJV: It is not expedient for me doubtless
INT: indeed not is profitable to me I will come
Hebrews 12:10 - V-PPA-ANS
GRK:ἐπὶ τὸ συμφέρον εἰς τὸ
NAS: as seemed best to them, but He [disciplines us] for [our] good, so
KJV: he for [our] profit, that
INT: for profit for [us]
