Sumphero (4851 in Strong's Concordance) is a verb in Ancient Greek that means to gather, or to bring together and is formed from:
sun - with, together
pheró - to bear, to carry
It is most often used as a third-person singular verb, but it is sometimes also used as an adjective or participle. The word conveys an action to bring together, to profit someone, or for the benefit of them.
Related Terms
The following terms are often used in connection or contrast to sumphero:
Apollumi (contrast) - to destroy
Usage
Sumphero is used 17 times across 17 verses. Below is a list of all references in the New Testament:
If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
Matthew 5:29 ESV
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
Matthew 5:30 ESV
but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Matthew 18:6 ESV
The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”
Matthew 19:10 ESV
Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.
John 11:50 ESV
Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
John 16:7 ESV
It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it would be expedient that one man should die for the people.
John 18:14 ESV
And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Acts 19:19 ESV
how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house
Acts 20:20 ESV
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.
1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV
I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:35 ESV
“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.
1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
1 Corinthians 12:7 ESV
But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.
1 Corinthians 15:46 ESV
And in this matter I give my judgment: this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it.
2 Corinthians 8:10 ESV
I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:1 ESV
For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.
Hebrews 12:10 ESV
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