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Lexicon :: Strong's G4327 - prosdechomai

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προσδέχομαι
Transliteration
prosdechomai (Key)
Pronunciation
pros-dekh'-om-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:57,146

Strong’s Definitions

προσδέχομαι prosdéchomai, pros-dekh'-om-ahee; from G4314 and G1209; to admit (to intercourse, hospitality, credence, or (figuratively) endurance); by implication, to await (with confidence or patience):—accept, allow, look (wait) for, take.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's G4327 in the following manner: look for (4x), wait for (3x), receive (3x), waited for (with G2258) (1x), allow (1x), take (1x), accept (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's G4327 in the following manner: look for (4x), wait for (3x), receive (3x), waited for (with G2258) (1x), allow (1x), take (1x), accept (1x).

  1. to receive to one's self, to admit, to give access to one's self

    1. to admit one, receive one into intercourse and companionship

    2. to receive one (coming from some place)

    3. to accept (not to reject) a thing offered

  2. to expect: the fulfilment of promises

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
προσδέχομαι prosdéchomai, pros-dekh'-om-ahee; from G4314 and G1209; to admit (to intercourse, hospitality, credence, or (figuratively) endurance); by implication, to await (with confidence or patience):—accept, allow, look (wait) for, take.
STRONGS G4327:
προσδέχομαι; deponent middle; imperfect προσεδεχόμην; 1 aorist προσεδεξαμην;
1. as in Greek writings from Aeschylus and Herodotus down, "to receive to oneself, to admit, to give access to oneself': τινα, to admit one, receive into intercourse and companionship, τούς ἁμαρτωλούς, Luke 15:2; to receive one (coming from some place), Romans 16:2; Philippians 2:29 ( 1 Chronicles 12:18); τί, to accept (not to reject) a thing offered: οὐ προσδεξάμενοι, to reject, Hebrews 11:35; προσδέχονται ἐλπίδα, to admit (accept) hope, i. e. not to repudiate but to entertain, embrace, its substance, Acts 24:15 (others refer this to the next head ( R. V. text look for)); not to shun, to bear, an impending evil ( A. V. took the spoiling etc.), Hebrews 10:34.
2. as from Homer down, to expect ( A. V. look for, trait for): τινα, Luke 12:36; τί, Mark 15:43; Luke 2:25, 38; Luke 23:51; ( Acts 23:21); Titus 2:13; Jude 1:21; τάς ἐπαγγελίας, the fulfilment of the promises, Hebrews 11:13 Lachmann (Cf. δέχομαι, at the endl
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Chronicles
12:18
Mark
15:43
Luke
2:25; 2:38; 12:36; 15:2; 23:51
Acts
23:21; 24:15
Romans
16:2
Philippians
2:29
Titus
2:13
Hebrews
10:34; 11:13; 11:35
Jude
1:21

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4327 matches the Greek προσδέχομαι (prosdechomai),
which occurs 33 times in 31 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:20 - “and also say, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us.’ ” For he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:17 - “Now therefore, please forgive my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that He may take away from me this death only.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - “then an oath of the LORD shall be between them both, that he has not put his hand into his neighbor’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept that, and he shall not make it good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:3 - And they received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of making the sanctuary. So they continued bringing to him freewill offerings every morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;
they will accept their guilt, because they despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:13 - “would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you restrain yourselves from having husbands? No, my daughters; for it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:18 - Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the captains, and he said:

“We are yours, O David;
We are on your side, O son of Jesse!
Peace, peace to you,
And peace to your helpers!
For your God helps you.”
So David received them, and made them captains of the troop.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:21 - to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:23 - So the Jews accepted the custom which they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:27 - the Jews established and imposed it upon themselves and their descendants and all who would join them, that without fail they should celebrate these two days every year, according to the written instructions and according to the prescribed time,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:9 - Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:23 - They waited for me as for the rain,
And they opened their mouth wide as for the spring rain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:20 - So that his life abhors bread,
And his soul succulent food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:9 - The LORD has heard my supplication;
The LORD will receive my prayer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 55:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:8 - I would hasten my escape
From the windy storm and tempest.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:11 - They give drink to every beast of the field;
The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:15 - All the days of the afflicted are evil,
But he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:10 - For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:1 - “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold,
My Elect One in whom My soul delights!
I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:4 - For Jacob My servant’s sake,
And Israel My elect,
I have even called you by your name;
I have named you, though you have not known Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:12 - “For you shall go out with joy,
And be led out with peace;
The mountains and the hills
Shall break forth into singing before you,
And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:40

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:40 - “For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height of Israel,” says the Lord GOD, “there all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the firstfruits of your sacrifices, together with all your holy things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:41 - “I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered; and I will be hallowed in you before the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:10 - ‘Yes, I will make many peoples astonished at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:27 - ‘When these days are over it shall be, on the eighth day and thereafter, that the priests shall offer your burnt offerings and your peace offerings on the altar; and I will accept you,’ says the Lord GOD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:13 - For the sacrifices of My offerings they sacrifice flesh and eat it,
But the LORD does not accept them.
Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.
They shall return to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:22 - Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them,
Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:7 - Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,
Ten thousand rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:8 - And when you offer the blind as a sacrifice,
Is it not evil?
And when you offer the lame and sick,
Is it not evil?
Offer it then to your governor!
Would he be pleased with you?
Would he accept you favorably?”
Says the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:10 - “Who is there even among you who would shut the doors,
So that you would not kindle fire on My altar in vain?
I have no pleasure in you,”
Says the LORD of hosts,
“Nor will I accept an offering from your hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:13 - You also say,
‘Oh, what a weariness!’
And you sneer at it,”
Says the LORD of hosts.
“And you bring the stolen, the lame, and the sick;
Thus you bring an offering!
Should I accept this from your hand?”
Says the LORD.
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