Strong's #3862: paradosis (pronounced par-ad'-os-is)

from 3860; transmission, i.e. (concretely) a precept; specially, the Jewish traditionary law:--ordinance, tradition.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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paradosis

1) giving up, giving over

1a) the act of giving up

1b) the surrender of cities

2) a giving over which is done by word of mouth or in writing, i.e. tradition by instruction, narrative, precept, etc.

2a) objectively, that which is delivered, the substance of a teaching

2b) of the body of precepts, especially ritual, which in the opinion of the later Jews were orally delivered by Moses and orally transmitted in unbroken succession to subsequent generations, which precepts, both illustrating and expanding the written law, as they did were to be obeyed with equal reverence

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G3860

Citing in TDNT: 2:172, 166

Usage:

This word is used 13 times:

 

Matthew 15:2: "disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash"
Matthew 15:3: "of God by your tradition?"
Matthew 15:6: "have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition."
Mark 7:3: "not, holding the tradition of the elders."
Mark 7:5: "disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat"
Mark 7:8: "of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and"
Mark 7:9: "that ye may keep your own tradition."
Mark 7:13: "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered:"
1 Corinthians 11:2: "and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you."
Galatians 1:14: "being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers."
Colossians 2:8: "deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments"
2 Thessalonians 2:15: "stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether"
2 Thessalonians 3:6: "not after the tradition which he received of us."