fellow prisoner
sunaichmalotos identifies people described alongside the speaker as fellow prisoners in the cited greetings.
The term is used of named people identified with the speaker as fellow prisoners: Aristarchus and Epaphras in greeting clauses, and Andronicus and Junia among those to be greeted.
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People named as fellow prisoners · dominant
The nominative singular form identifies Aristarchus and Epaphras in greeting clauses; in Colossians 4:10 the APB renders “Aristarchus my fellow prisoner sends you greetings,” and in Philemon 1:23 it renders “Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings.” The accusative plural form identifies Andronicus and Junia as the recipients of greeting in Romans 16:7, where the APB renders “my fellow prisoners.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited verses, the APB presents the term with “my fellow prisoner” or “my fellow prisoners,”.