Encounter - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Encounter

[ 1,,G4820, sumballo ]
lit., to throw together" (sun, "with," ballo, "to throw"), is used of "encountering" in war, Luke 14:31, RV, "to encounter ... (in war)," for AV, "to make war against;" of meeting in order to discuss, in Acts 17:18, "encountered," of the philosophers in Athens and the Apostle. See CONFER, HELP, MAKE, MEET, PONDER.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words