paradosis · tradition

What it means

paradosis (παράδοσις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “tradition”.

What is handed down from one generation to the next, such as the rules of the Jewish teachers.

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. What is handed down from one to another.

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

How it is translated

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

• tradition ×10
• traditions ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×5
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×1
• Colossians×1
• 2 Thessalonians×2

• Matthew 15:2

  “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

• Matthew 15:3

  But he answered and said to them, “Why do you also break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

• Matthew 15:6

  will certainly not honor his father.’ And you have nullified the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

• Mark 7:3

  (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands with the fist, holding to the tradition of the elders;

• Mark 7:5

  And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat the bread with defiled hands?”

• Mark 7:8

  Having left the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.”

• Mark 7:9

  And he was saying to them, “How well you set aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!

• Mark 7:13

  making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down; and many such things you do.”

• 1 Corinthians 11:2

  Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold fast the traditions just as I handed them on to you.

• Galatians 1:14

  and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, being far more zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

• Colossians 2:8

  Watch out that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of human beings, according to the elements of the world and not according to the Messiah;

• 2 Thessalonians 2:15

  So then, brothers, stand firm and hold fast the traditions that you were taught, whether by word or by our letter.

• 2 Thessalonians 3:6

  Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, that you keep away from every brother who walks in a disorderly way and not according to the tradition that they received from us.