paradechomai · accept, welcome

What it means

paradechomai (παραδέχομαι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “accept, welcome”.

Accept, receive.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To let someone or something in and take it as one's own.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• accept ×4
• he receives ×1
• they were welcomed ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Mark×1
• Acts×3
• 1 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×1

• Mark 4:20

  And those are the ones sown on the good soil, who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.”

• Acts 15:4

  And when they arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.

• Acts 16:21

  and they proclaim customs that it is not lawful for us to accept or practice, being Romans.”

• Acts 22:18

  and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’

• 1 Timothy 5:19

  Do not accept an accusation against an elder except on the basis of two or three witnesses.

• Hebrews 12:6

  for the Lord disciplines the one whom he loves, and he flogs every son whom he receives.