1209 – δέχομαι (dechomai)

receive

Description

1. To take with the hand.
   1. To take hold of, take up.
2. To take up, receive.
   1. Used of a place receiving one.
   2. To receive or grant access to, a visitor, not to refuse intercourse or friendship.
      1. To receive hospitality.
      2. To receive into one's family to bring up or educate.
   3. Of the thing offered in speaking, teaching, instructing.
      1. To receive favourably, give ear to, embrace, make one's own, approve, not to reject.
   4. To receive. i.e. to take upon one's self, sustain, bear, endure.
3. To receive, get.
   1. To learn.

Word root

Word with dechomai as root:

Equivalent Hebrew/Aramaic words

In the Greek Septuagint (LXX) translation, the following Hebrew/Aramaic words have been translated into dechomai :

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