Dictionaries :: Agree, Agreement

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Agree, Agreement:

lit., "to sound together" (sun, "together," phone, "a sound"), i.e., "to be in accord, primarily of musical instruments," is used in the NT of the "agreement"

(a) of persons concerning a matter, Mat 18:19; 20:2, 13; Act 5:9;

(b) of the writers of Scripture, Act 15:15;

(c) of things that are said to be congruous in their nature, Luk 5:36.

Note: Cp. sumphonesis, "concord," 2Cr 6:15, and sumphonia, "music," Luk 15:25.

Agree, Agreement:

lit., "to put together" (sun, "with," tithemi, "to put"), in the Middle Voice, means "to make an agreement, or to assent to;" translated "covenanted" in Luk 22:5; "agreed" in Jhn 9:22; Act 23:20; "assented" in Act 24:9.

Note: For the synonym sunkatatithemi, a strengthened form of No. 2, see CONSENT, No. 4.

Agree, Agreement:

lit., "to be well-minded, well-disposed" (eu, "well," nous, "the mind"), is found in Mat 5:25, "agree with."

Agree, Agreement:

"to persuade," is rendered "agreed" in Act 5:40, where the meaning is "they yielded to him."
See ASSURE, BELIEVE, CONFIDENT, FRIEND, OBEY, PERSUADE, TRUST, YIELD.

Agree, Agreement:

"mind, will," is used with poieo, "to make," in the sense of "to agree," Rev 17:17 (twice), lit., "to do His mind, and to make one mind;" RV, "to come to one mind," AV, "to agree."
See ADVICE, JUDGMENT, MIND, PURPOSE, WILL.

Agree, Agreement:

akin to A, No. 3, occurs in 2Cr 6:16.

Agree, Agreement:

"inharmonious" (a, negative, sumphonos, "harmonious"), is used in Act 28:25, "they agreed not."

Agree, Agreement:

"equal," is used with the verb to be, signifying "to agree," Mar 14:56, 59, lit., "their thought was not equal one with the other."
See EQUAL, LIKE, MUCH.

Note: Sumphonos, "harmonious, agreeing," is used only with the preposition ek in the phrase ek sumphonou, "by consent," lit., "out of agreement," 1Cr 7:5. In Mar 14:70 some texts have the verb homoiazo, "agreeth," AV.