Lexical Summary
endechomai: To accept, to allow, to admit, to receive
Original Word: ἐνδέχομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: endechomai
Pronunciation: en-DEKH-om-ahee
Phonetic Spelling: (en-dekh'-et-ahee)
KJV: can (+ not) be
Word Origin: [third person singular present of a compound of G1722 (ἔν - among) and G1209 (δέχομαι - receive)]
1. (impersonally) it is accepted in, i.e. admitted (possible)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
can be.
Third person singular present of a compound of en and dechomai; (impersonally) it is accepted in, i.e. Admitted (possible) -- can (+ not) be.
see GREEK en
see GREEK dechomai
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom the comp. of
en and
dechomaiDefinitionto admit, approve, to be possible
NASB Translationcannot* (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1735: ἐνδέχομαιἐνδέχομαι;
to receive, approve of, admit, allow (as
τόν λόγον,
Herodotus 1, 60). Impersonally,
ἐνδέχεται it can be allowed, is possible, may be (often thus in Greek prose from
Thucydides down): followed by an accusative with an infinitive
Luke 13:33; cf.
Luke 17:1. (Cf.
δέχομαι, at the end.)
