hypakoē · obedience

What it means

hypakoē (ὑπακοή) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “obedience”.

Listening and doing what is commanded.

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. Listening and doing what is commanded.

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

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Romans×6
• 2 Corinthians×3
• Philemon×1
• Hebrews×1
• 1 Peter×3

• Romans 1:5

  through whom we received grace and apostleship for the obedience of faith among all the nations for the sake of his name,

• Romans 5:19

  For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one the many will be made righteous.

• Romans 6:16

  Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

• Romans 15:18

  For I will not dare to speak of anything that the Messiah has not accomplished through me for the obedience of the nations, by word and deed,

• Romans 16:19

  For your obedience has reached all; so I rejoice over you; but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.

• 2 Corinthians 7:15

  And his affections are all the more toward you as he remembers the obedience of all of you, how with fear and trembling you welcomed him.

• 2 Corinthians 10:5

  and every high thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought to the obedience of the Messiah,

• 2 Corinthians 10:6

  and being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.

• Philemon 1:21

  Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than what I say.

• Hebrews 5:8

  Although he was a Son, he learned obedience from what he suffered;

• 1 Peter 1:2

  according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling with the blood of Jesus the Messiah: grace and peace be multiplied to you.

• 1 Peter 1:14

  As children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the desires you had formerly in your ignorance,

• 1 Peter 1:22

  Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth for a brotherly love without hypocrisy, love one another earnestly from the heart,

And 1 more times.