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πειθαρχέω

peitharchéō · G3980 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to obey

    To submit to authority or reason by obeying

    Examples

    Acts 5:29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

    Acts 5:32 “And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

    Acts 27:21 When many had lost their appetites, Paul then stood among them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice and not have set sail from Crete, and thereby spared yourselves this damage and loss.

How it’s used In 5 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

4 occurrences in 2 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

It is given or told toIndirect object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 1 entry
To obey36.12
πειθαρχέω names submission to a recognized authority's command, as Peter and the apostles answer the council's demand: “But Peter and the apostles answered, ‘We must obey God rather than men.’” (Acts 5:29)
Word family 18 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πείθω peíthō · G3982 · to persuade, to convince, to rely on · 52×πίστις pístis · G4102 · what can be fully believed, that which is worthy of belief, believable evidence · 243×πιστεύω pisteúō · G4100 · to believe, to think to be true, to regard as trustworthy · 241×πιστός pistós · G4103 · one who trusts in, trusting, faithful · 67×ἄπιστος ápistos · G571 · unbelievable, impossible to be believed, to be unbelieving · 23×ἀπειθέω apeithéō · G544 · to disobey, disobedience, to refuse to be a believer · 14×ἀπιστία apistía · G570 · unbelief, unfaithfulness, lack of faith · 11×ἀπιστέω apistéō · G569 · to not believe, to disbelieve, to not think to be true · 8×ἀπείθεια apeítheia · G543 · to disobey, disobedience, to refuse to be a believer · 6×ἀπειθής apeithḗs · G545 · disobedient · 6×πειθαρχέωpeitharchéō · G3980πιστικός pistikós · G4101 · pure · 2×ἀναπείθω anapeíthō · G374 · to persuade, to incite · 1×εὐπειθής eupeithḗs · G2138 · one who is easily persuaded, open to reason · 1×πειθός peithós · G3981 · persuasive, convincing · 1×πεισμονή peismonḗ · G3988 · that which persuades, the means of convincing · 1×πιθανολογία pithanología · G4086 · convincing speech, plausible language · 1×πιστόω pistóō · G4104 · to come to believe · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πειθάρχω; 1 aorist participle πειθαρχησας; (πείθαρχος; and this from πείθομαι and ἀρχή);…
πειθάρχω; 1 aorist participle πειθαρχησας; (πείθαρχος; and this from πείθομαι and ἀρχή); to obey (a ruler or a superior): Θεῷ, Acts 5:29, Acts 5:32; magistrates, Tit 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).)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Obey, Disobey4 occurrences

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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