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YOKEFELLOW

A term for a partner in some enterprise (Gk. sýzygos). It is used to mean “comrade, companion” (Euripides Iph. T. 250; Aristophanes Plut. 945), and “brother” (Euripides Tro. 1001). Used as a feminine form, the term can mean “wife” (Euripides Alc. 314, 34).

Paul asks the “true yokefellow” to help Euodia and Syntyche settle their disagreement (Phil. 4:3), and he may be referring to either Timothy, Epaphroditus, Silas, Luke, the husband or brother of Euodia or Syntyche, Paul’s wife, a church official at Philippi, a man named Syzygos (“Yokefellow”), a fellow prisoner with Paul, any volunteer in the Church who might help, the whole Philippian church, or even Christ. The identity of the person remains a mystery.

Bibliography. M. Hájek, “Comments on Philippians 4:3 — Who Was ‘Gnésios Syzygos’?” Communio Viatorum 7 (1964): 261-62.

Douglas S. Huffman






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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