Lexicon
συμβαίνω
sumbainō
G4819
G:V Greek

to happen

8
Occurrences
6
Books
Greek
Language

Sumbaino describes events occurring, whether experiences that come upon people or matters that have taken place.

The attested use describes an event or experience occurring: events that had taken place, trials that came upon someone, and what was about to occur. The forms appear in accounts of past events, present testing, and anticipated developments without evidence here for separate lexical senses.

Senses in use

  1. An event occurring or coming about · dominant

    The term marks events or experiences as occurring in varied settings: in Luke 24:14 the perfect participle refers to “all these things that had happened,” while in Acts 20:19 the aorist participle concerns trials that happened to the speaker. In 1 Peter 4:12, the present participle occurs in the clause about a burning “that occurs among you,” and Mark 10:32 uses the present infinitive for what was about to happen to him.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB uses “happened,” “occurs,” and “was about to happen” for clauses containing the term. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation text, these renderings confirm the event-setting of the clauses without fixing a separate English equivalent in each verse.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture