to agree with
sumphoneo denotes people reaching an agreement and things corresponding or matching in Scripture.
The attested use chiefly concerns people entering or sharing an agreement, whether over a wage, a request, or a stated course of action; it also describes words or a garment patch corresponding with what they are set beside.
Senses in use
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Reaching an agreement together · dominant
In Matthew 20:2, the aorist active participle introduces the arrangement with the workers before they are sent into the vineyard; in Matthew 20:13, the aorist active indicative recalls that arrangement concerning a denarius. Matthew 18:19 places the aorist active subjunctive in the condition of two persons agreeing about what they ask, while Acts 5:9 uses an aorist passive indicative in Peter's question about agreeing to test the Spirit of the Lord; the APB renders these clauses with “agreeing” or “agreed.”
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Corresponding or matching · common
Acts 15:15 uses a present active indicative for the words of the prophets in relation to the preceding statement; the APB renders the clause, “the words of the prophets agree.” In Luke 5:36, a future active indicative concerns the patch from a new garment in relation to an old one, which the APB renders as not “match[ing] the old.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with “agree,” “agreed,” and “agreeing” in the interpersonal clauses, and with “agree” and “match” where words or a garment patch correspond. These are renderings of whole translated clauses rather than word-by-word alignments.