STRONGS G3858:
παραδέχομαι; 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.)
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