Strong's Concordance
apodechomai: to accept gladly, welcome
Original Word: ἀποδέχομαιPart of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: apodechomai
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-od-ekh'-om-ahee)
Short Definition: I receive, welcome, entertain
Definition: I receive, welcome, entertain (with hospitality), embrace.
HELPS Word-studies
588 apodéxomai (from 575 /apó, "from" and 1209 /déxomai, "to receive heartily, welcome") – properly "receive from," i.e. as the prior circumstance (or individual) inspires glad reception ("gladly welcome").
[588 (apodéxomai) focuses back on whom (what) is welcomingly received. Note the force of the prefix (apo).]
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 588: ἀποδέχομαιἀποδέχομαι; deponent middle; imperfect
ἀπεδεχομην; 1 aorist
ἀπεδεξαμην; 1 aorist passive
ἀπεδεχθην; common in Greek writings, especially the Attic, from
Homer down; in the N. T. used only by Luke;
to accept what is offered from without (
ἀπό, cf. Latin
excipio),
to accept from, receive:
τινα, simply, to give one access to oneself,
Luke 9:11 L T Tr WH;
Acts 28:30; with emphasis (cf. Tobit 7:17 and Fritzsche at the passage), to receive with joy,
Luke 8:40; to receive to hospitality,
Acts 21:17 L T Tr WH; to grant one access to oneself in the capacity in which he wishes to be regarded, e. g. as the messenger of others,
Acts 15:4 (
L T Tr WH παρεδέχθησαν); as a Christian,
Acts 18:27; metaphorically,
τί,
to receive into the mind with assent:
to approve, Acts 24:3;
to believe, τόν λόγον,
Acts 2:41; (so in Greek writings especially
Plato; cf. Ast, Lex.
Plato, i., p. 232).
