Paradechomai means “receive” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3858 — lahat (“flaming”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3858 παραδέχομαι (paradechomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. paradechomai (par-ad-ekh'-om-ai) v. 1. to accept near, i.e. admit or (by implication) delight in [from G3844 and G1209] It has 8 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include receive. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
paradechomai (par-ad-ekh'-om-ai) v. 1. to accept near, i.e. admit or (by implication) delight in [from G3844 and G1209] KJV: receive Root(s): G3844, G1209
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3858. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to welcome
Usage: παρα-δέχομαι [in LXX: Exo.23:1 (נָשָׂא), Pro.3:12 (רָצָה), 2Ma.4:22 R, 3Ma.7:12 * ;] to receive, admit; __(a) of things: Mrk.4:20, Act.15:4 16:21 22:18, 1Ti.5:19; __(b) of persons: Heb.12:6 (LXX).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render paradechomai, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3858 (παραδέχομαι) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.
And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Thou shalt not receive a vain report: thou shalt not agree with the unjust man to become an unjust witness.
For whom the Lord loves, he rebukes, And scourges every son whom he receives.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The king admitted the truth of this reasoning, and commended them. Full power was given them, without warrant or special commission, to destroy those who had transgressed the law of God boldly in every part of the king’s dominions.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3858.
Thou shalt not receive a vain report: thou shalt not agree with the unjust man to become an unjust witness.
For whom the Lord loves, he rebukes, And scourges every son whom he receives.
And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.
And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.
Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
The king admitted the truth of this reasoning, and commended them. Full power was given them, without warrant or special commission, to destroy those who had transgressed the law of God boldly in every part of the king’s dominions.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3858, grouped by book.
Paradechomai (Strong's G3858) is a Greek word most simply glossed "receive". paradechomai (par-ad-ekh'-om-ai) v. 1. to accept near, i.e. admit or (by implication) delight in [from G3844 and G1209]
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G3858 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3858 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as receive. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3858, with linked reader references where each row is available.