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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Join:

join: Of the New Testament words, kollao, literally, "glue," "weld together," and its compounds, designate the closest form of personal union, as in Lu 15:15; 1Co 6:16; Eph 5:31. In the words of institution of marriage, suzeugnumi is used (Mt 19:6; Mr 10:9, literally, "yoke together"; compare Ge 2:24).

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Join:

primarily, "to glue or cement together," then, generally, "to unite, to join firmly," is used in the Passive Voice signifying "to join oneself to, to be joined to," Luk 15:15; Act 5:13; 8:29; 9:26; 10:28, RV (AV, "to keep company with"); 1Cr 6:16, 17; elsewhere, "to cleave to," Luk 10:11; Act 17:34; Rom 12:9.
See CLEAVE.

Join:

"to stick to," a strengthened form of No. 1, with pros, "to," intensive, is used in the Passive Voice, reflexively, in a metaphorical sense, with the meanings

(a) "to join oneself to," in Act 5:36;

(b) "to cleave to," of the husband with regard to the wife, Mat 19:5; Mar 10:7; in Eph 5:31, RV, "shall cleave to" (AV, "shall be joined to").
See CLEAVE.

Join:

"to yoke together" (sun, "with," zugos, "a yoke"), is used metaphorically of union in wedlock, in Mat 19:6; Mar 10:9.

Join:

"to border on," is used of a house as being contiguous with a synagogue, in Act 18:7, "joined hard to."

Notes:

(1) In 1Cr 1:10, katartizo, "to render complete, to perfect" (kata, "down," intensive, and artios, "complete, jointed"), "to restore," is translated "be perfectly joined together," AV (RV, "be perfected together"); see FIT.

(2) In Eph 4:16, sunarmologeo, "to fit" or "frame together," is translated "fitly joined together," AV (RV, "fitly framed... together"); cp. Eph 2:21.