SYNZYGUS (lit. yoke-fellow).This is taken by some as a proper name in Php_4:3 (Synzygus truly so called), but it is nowhere else found as such. It is more probably a way of describing the chief minister of the church at Philippi. Lightfoot (Com., in loc.) suggests Epaphroditus; Ramsay (St. Paul, p. 358), Luke; others, Barnabas or Silas or Timothy. An old tradition of the 2nd cent. (Lightfoot, ib.) makes the yoke-fellow to be the Apostles wife; Renan supposes that Lydia is meant, and that she had become his wife; but see 1Co_7:8.
A. J. Maclean.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
sin?zi-gus (σύνζυγε, súnzuge): In Phi_4:3 it is rendered ?yokefellow.? WHm (Σύνζυγε, Súnzuge), Thayer, Lex. New Testament, 594 (Σύζυγε, Súzuge), and others, take it as a proper name in this passage. See YOKEFELLOW.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.