Strong's #1209: dechomai (pronounced dekh'-om-ahee)
middle voice of a primary verb; to receive (in various applications, literally or figuratively):--accept, receive, take. Compare 2983.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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dechomai
1) to take with the hand
1a) to take hold of, take up
2) to take up, receive
2a) used of a place receiving one
2b) to receive or grant access to, a visitor, not to refuse intercourse or friendship
2b1) to receive hospitality
2b2) to receive into one' s family to bring up or educate
2c) of the thing offered in speaking, teaching, instructing
2c1) to receive favourably, give ear to, embrace, make one' s own, approve, not to reject
2d) to receive. i.e. to take upon one' s self, sustain, bear, endure
3) to receive, get
3a) to learn
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: middle voice of a primary verb
Citing in TDNT: 2:50, 146
Usage:
This word is used 59 times:
Galatians 4:14: "nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God,"
Ephesians 6:17: "And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword"
Philippians 4:18: "and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from"
Colossians 4:10: "he come unto you, receive him;)"
1 Thessalonians 1:6: "and of the Lord, having received the word in much"
1 Thessalonians 2:13: "of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men,"
2 Thessalonians 2:10: "in them that perish; because they received not the love"
Hebrews 11:31: "perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace."
James 1:21: "and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted"
