παραδέχομαι

παραδέχομαι — paradéchomai

παραδέχομαι; future 3 person plural παραδέξονταί; deponent middle, but in Biblical and ecclesiastical Greek with 1 aorist passive παρεδεχθην (Act 15:4 L T Tr WH; 2Ma 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, Mar 4:20; ἔθη, Act 16:21; τήν μαρτυρίαν, Act 22:18; κατηγορίαν, 1Ti 5:19 (τάς δοκιμους δραχμάς, Epictetus diss. 1, 7, 6); τινα, of a son, to acknowledge as one's own (A. V. receiveth), Heb 12:6 (after Pro 3:12, where for רָצָה); of a delegate or messenger, to give due reception to, Act 15:4 L T Tr WH. (Cf. δέχομαι, at the end.)