Lexicon peitharcheó: to obey authority Original Word: πειθαρχέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: peitharcheó Phonetic Spelling: (pi-tharkh-eh'-o) Short Definition: I obey one in authority Definition: I obey one in authority, conform to advice, obey, follow. HELPS word-Studies 3980 peitharxéō (from 3982 /peíthō, " persuade" and 746/arxē, "what comes first") – properly, persuaded of what must come first, i.e. what has priority (the higher authority). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom a comp. of peithó and archóDefinitionto obey authority NASB Translationfollowed...advice (1), obedient (1), obey (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3980: πειθαρχέωπειθαρχέω, πειθάρχω; 1 aorist participle πειθαρχησας; ( πείθαρχος; and this from πείθομαι and ἀρχή); to obey (a ruler or a superior): Θεῷ, Acts 5:29, 32; magistrates, Titus 3:1 (others take it here absolutely, to be obedient); τῷ λόγῳ τῆς δικαιοσύνης, Polycarp, ad Philipp. 9, 1 [ET]; ( A. V. to hearken to) one advising something, Acts 27:21. ( Sophocles, Xenophon, Polybius, Diodorus, Josephus, Plutarch, others; on the very frequent use of the verb by Philo see Siegfried, Philo von Alex. as above with, p. 43 (especially, p. 108).)
Strong's to obey authority From a compound of peitho and archo; to be persuaded by a ruler, i.e. (genitive case) to submit to authority; by analogy, to conform to advice -- hearken, obey (magistrates). see GREEK peitho see GREEK archo |
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