Lexicon paradechomai: to receive, admit Original Word: παραδέχομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: paradechomai Phonetic Spelling: (par-ad-ekh'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I receive, accept, acknowledge Definition: I receive, accept, acknowledge. HELPS word-Studies 3858 paradéxomai (from 3844 /pará, "from close-beside," intensifying 1209/dexomai, "receive") – properly, receive openly, welcoming with personal interest. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom para and dechomaiDefinitionto receive, admit NASB Translationaccept (3), receive (1), received (1), receives (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3858: παραδέχομαιπαραδέχομαι; future 3 person plural παραδέξονταί; deponent middle, but in Biblical and ecclesiastical Greek with 1 aorist passive παρεδεχθην ( Acts 15:4 L T Tr WH; 2 Macc. 4:22; (cf. Buttmann, 51 (44)); 1. in classical Greek from Homer down, properly, to receive, take up, take upon oneself. Hence, 2. to admit i. e. not to reject, to accept, receive: τόν λόγον, Mark 4:20; ἔθη, Acts 16:21; τήν μαρτυρίαν, Acts 22:18; κατηγορίαν, 1 Timothy 5:19 (τάς δοκιμους δραχμάς, Epictetus diss. 1, 7, 6); τινα, of a son, to acknowledge as one's own (A. V. receiveth), Hebrews 12:6 (after Proverbs 3:12, where for רָצָה); of a delegate or messenger, to give due reception to, Acts 15:4 L T Tr WH. (Cf. δέχομαι, at the end.)
Strong's receive. From para and dechomai; to accept near, i.e. Admit or (by implication) delight in -- receive. see GREEK para see GREEK dechomai |
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