παραδέχομαι
paradéchomai · G3858 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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to accept, to receive, acceptance, reception
To come to believe something to be true and to respond accordingly, with some emphasis upon the source
ExamplesMark 4:20 “And those are the ones sown with seed on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.”
Acts 16:21 and they are proclaiming customs that are not lawful for us to accept or to practice, since we are Romans.”
Acts 22:18 and I saw Him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me.’
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to welcome, to receive, to accept, to have as a guest
To accept the presence of a person with friendliness
ExamplesActs 15:4 When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received by the church, the apostles, and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
6 occurrences in 4 groups
- Not stated: they 3
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- ὅςwho, which, that 2
- ἐκτόςexcept, outside 1
- κατηγορίαaccusation 1
- μαρτυρίαtestimony, witness 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 4 groups
- κατάaccording to, against, down+ πρεσβύτεροςelder, older 1
- ἀπόfrom+ ἐκκλησίαcongregation, church 1
- ἀπόfrom+ πρεσβύτεροςelder, older 1
- ἀπόfrom+ ἀπόστολοςapostle 1
With adverbsAdverbs
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- μήnot 1
- οὐnot 1
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐκεῖνοςthat, that one, there 1
- υἱόςson 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔξεστιit is lawful, it is permitted 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- To accept, to receive, acceptance, reception31.52
- This domain covers παραδέχομαι naming the acceptance of a message or teaching, as Mark describes the good soil in the parable of the sower: “And those are the ones sown with seed on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.” (Mark 4:20)
- To welcome, to receive, to accept, to have as a guest34.53
- Here παραδέχομαι names the welcoming reception of a person, as Luke describes the Jerusalem church's response to Paul and Barnabas: “When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received by the church, the apostles, and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.” (Acts 15:4)
Word family 49 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon future 3 person plural παραδέξονταί; deponent middle, but in Biblical and ecclesiastical…
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, Mk 4:20; ἔθη, Acts 16:21; τήν μαρτυρίαν, Acts 22:18; κατηγορίαν, 1 Tim 5:19 (τάς δοκιμους δραχμάς, Epictetus diss. 1, 7, 6); τινα, of a son, to acknowledge as one's own (A. V. receiveth), Heb 12:6 (after Prov 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.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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