Original Word: σύσσωμος, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: sussómos
Phonetic Spelling: (soos'-so-mos)
Short Definition: belonging to the same body
Definition: belonging to the same body; fig: of Jews and Gentiles belonging to the same Church.

4954 sýssōmos (an adjective, derived from 4862 /sýn, "closely identified with" and 4983 /sṓma, "body") – properly, united, belonging to the same body; a "joint-body," referring to "the mystical body of Christ, composed of all saved believers (OT and NT). It is used only in Eph 3:6.

"This union fulfilled 'the promise of the Father' when Christ baptized all true believers (OT, NT) in the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost (see Mt 3:11; Lk 24:49; 1 Cor 12:13,27; Eph 4:4-6)" (G. Archer).

[For a dispensational view see 3622 (oikonomía).]

STRONGS NT 4954: σύσσωμος

σύσσωμος (L T Tr WH συνσωμος (cf. σύν, II. at the end)), συσσωμον (σύν and σῶμα), belonging to the same body (i. e. metaphorically, to the same church) (R. V. fellow-members of the body): Ephesians 3:6. (Ecclesiastical writings.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

of the same body.

From sun and soma; of a joint body, i.e. (figuratively) a fellow-member of the Christian community -- of the same body.

see GREEK sun

see GREEK soma

Forms and Transliterations

συνσωμα σύνσωμα σύσσωμα sussoma sussōma syssoma syssōma sýssoma sýssōma

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