Lexicon apodektos: acceptable Original Word: ἀπόδεκτος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: apodektos Phonetic Spelling: (ap-od'-ek-tos) Short Definition: worthy to be received, acceptable, welcome Definition: worthy to be received (welcomed), acceptable, welcome, pleasant. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 587 apódektos (an adjective, derived from 588 /apodéxomai, "gladly receive") – properly, what is gladly welcomed because pleasing (acceptable). 587 (apódektos) looks back to the source that prompts the glad receiving (note the prefix, apo). For the believer, this is God Himself (His grace). See 588 (apodexomai). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom apodechomaiDefinitionacceptable NASB Translationacceptable (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 587: ἀπόδεκτοςἀπόδεκτος (so L T WH accent (and Rev. in 1 Timothy 2:3); others ἀπόδεκτος, cf. Lob. Paralip., p. 498; Göttling, p. 313f; Chandler § 529f), ἀπόδεκτον (see ἀποδέχομαι), a later word, accepted, acceptable, agreeable: 1 Timothy 2:3; 1 Timothy 5:4.
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