Sunesthio denotes sharing a meal with others, whether welcomed, reported, or forbidden in a particular setting.

The verb consistently describes eating in company with specified people: it is prohibited with a professing brother of certain conduct in 1 Corinthians 5:11, reported as shared table fellowship in Acts 10:41 and Acts 11:3, and appears in accounts of eating with Gentiles or sinful people in Galatians 2:12 and Luke 15:2.

1. Sharing a meal with specified people · dominant

   Across the attested clauses, the verb marks eating in the company of others. In 1 Corinthians 5:11, the present active infinitive occurs in the instruction not to associate with a named kind of brother, and the APB renders the clause “not even to eat with such a one”; in Acts 10:41 and Acts 11:3, the aorist forms report eating with him after he arose and eating with uncircumcised men. Galatians 2:12 and Luke 15:2 use finite forms for eating with Gentiles and with sinful people, respectively.

   1 Corinthians 5:11Acts 10:41Acts 11:3Galatians 2:12Luke 15:2

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB repeatedly presents the clause with “ate with,” “eating with,” or “eat with.” These renderings confirm the shared-meal setting of the clauses rather than establishing finer distinctions.