Strong G5264ὑποδέχομαι

to receive

Transliteration
hupodechomai
Pronunciation
hoop-od-ekh'-om-ahee
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G5259 and G1209; to admit under one´ s roof that is entertain hospitably: - receive.

Detailed definition

ὑπο-δέχομαι
[in LXX: Tob.7:8-9 Jdth.13:13 A, 1Ma.16:15, 4Ma.13:17 *;]
to receive under one's roof, receive as a guest, entertain hospitably: with accusative of person(s), Luk.19:6, Act.17:7, Jas.2:25; εἰς τ. οἶκον, Luk.10:38 (see MM, xxv).†
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Strong G5264 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • receive4

First verses

  1. Luke 10:38
    Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
  2. Luke 19:6
    And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
  3. Acts 17:7
    Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
  4. James 2:25
    Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
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ὑποδέχομαι,
in Ionic dialect and Doric dialect Prose ὑπο-δέκομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (see. below), “IG” 42 (1).121.46 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]: future δέξομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.70)], Doric dialect -δεξοῦμαι[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“SIG” 558.22 (Ithaca, 3rd c.BC))]: aorist -εδεξάμην[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.136)], rarely -εδέχθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 757)] (Lyric poetry; used in passive sense by [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.74, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 48.15, “PLond.” 5.1659.6 (4th c.AD), Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.323)]; -δεχόμενος in passive sense, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 55.10, “POxy.” 1894.14 (6th c.AD)))]: 3rd.pers. singular Epic dialect aorist 2 or imperfect ὑπέδεκτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.52, 275, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 513, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.9)]; 2nd pers. plural imperative ὑπόδεχθε conjecture Bentl. in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 42)]; infinitive ὑποδέχθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.93)]; participle ὑποδέγμενος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.310)]:—receive into one's house, welcome, ὁ δέ με (i.e. Φοίνικα) πρόφρων ὑπέδεκτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.480; χαῖρε δ᾽ Ὀδυσσεὺς ὅττι μιν ὣς ὑπέδεκτο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.52; τὸν δ᾽ οὐχ ὑποδέξομαι αὖτις 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.59, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.257; ξεῖνον.. ὑποδέξομαι οἴκῳ 16.70; Θέτις δ᾽ ὑπεδέξατο κόλπῳ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.136, compare 18.398; Διὸς πλαστὴν ὑπέδεκτο γυναῖκα 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus [same place]; οἰκίοισι ὑ. τινά 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.41)]; ὑπέδεκτο ξεῖνον ὀχέων received the stranger [as he lighted] from his chariot, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus)] [same place]; ὁ ὑποδεξάμενος the man who had received him, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.20; ἱκέτας ὑ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 757 (Lyric poetry), compare “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.167 (from Cyrene), NT.Jam.2.25; φυγάδας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.83, compare “PRev.Laws” 44.14 (3rd c.BC))]; harbour a runaway slave, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 1643.12 (3rd c.AD))]; [ξένον] ἀγοραῖς καὶ λιμέσι καὶ δημοσίοις οἰκοδομήμασιν ἔξω τῆς πόλεως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 952e, compare 953b, 953d, “OGI” 49.5 (Ptolemais, 3rd c.BC))]; ὑ. φρουράν admit an enemy's garrison, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 58.38, compare 67, “IG” 12.87.10, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1303a36)]; λῃστάς, πειρατάς, harbour brigands, pirates, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“SIG” 38 B 21 (Teos, 5th c.BC), “Supp.epigram” 3.378 B 11 (Delph., 2nd-1st c.BC),compare “POxy.” 1408.23 (3rd c.AD))]; γυναῖκάς τινι εἰς τὸ αὐτὸ φοιτώσας ὑποδέχεσθαι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 32)]; αἱ Θίβρωνα ὑποδεξάμεναι πόλεις those who admitted him as a friend, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.21, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.111, 6.34: with a thing as subject, γαῖα.. ὑπέδεκτο μάντιν Οἰκλείδαν)] the earth opened up to receive the seer O., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.8)]; αἰθὴρ μὲν ψυχὰς ὑπεδέξατο σώμ [ατα δὲ χθών] [Refs (“IG” 12.945.6)]; τῆς τεκούσης καὶ θρεψάσης καὶ ὑποδεξαμένης [χώρας] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 237c.)]
2 entertain to a meal, θύων Διὶ Κτησίῳ κἀκεῖνον ὑποδεχόμενος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.18, compare “IG” 4.679.15 (Hermione, 3rd-2nd c.BC))]; ἵνα ἔχῃ ἡ στρατιὰ τὰ ἐπιτήδεια (πολλὴ γὰρ οὖσα οὐ πάσης ἔσται πόλεως ὑποδέξασθαι) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.22)]; ὁ ὑποδεχόμενος the host (at a dinner party), [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Epictetus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 17; τὸ πλῆθος λαμπρῶς ὑπεδέξατο 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.115, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 23.)]
3 give ear to, hearken to, εὐχάς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 419; τοὺς λόγους 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.106)]; ὑ. διαβολάς give ear to accusations, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 25.11 codices (to be read ἀπο-).)]
4 admit, allow a thing with which one is taxed, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.167; οὐκ ὑ.)]refuse to admit, deny, [Refs ([prev. author] 3.130, 6.69.)]
II take up a burden, ἡ γυνὴ ὑποδεξαμένη φέρει τὸ φορτίον τοῦτο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.5)]; of ships, take on board, τὰ εἴδη [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 1412.10 (3rd c.AD))]; of dolphins, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMar.” 8.1.)]
II.2 bear patiently, βίας ὑποδέγμενος ἀνδρῶν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.310, 16.189)]; submit to, τὰς κατὰ νόμους παραγγελίας [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“POxy.” 67.11 (4th c.AD))]; μέτρον, i. e. accept it as correct, [Refs 6th c.AD+ ([prev. work] 157.5 (6th c.AD))]; τροφὴ θλίβουσα πᾶν τὸ δοκοῦν αὐτὴν ὑποδέχεσθαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.115.)]
III undertake, promise, αἴδεσθεν μὲν ἀνήνασθαι, δεῖσαν δ᾽ ὑποδέχθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.93, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.21, 22)]; ὁ δέ οἱ πρόφρων ὑπέδεκτο (i.e. δώσειν) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.387)]; ὑποδέκομαι (i.e. ἐνιαυτοῦ ἀποθυσεῖν τὰ ἴατρα) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 42(1).121.46 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; with infinitive future, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Cererem” 443, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.69, 4.119, 133, 6.11, 7.158, 8.29, 102, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.29)] (infinitive aorist is variant for future in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.24, 6.2))]; with infinitive present, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.3.6 (assuming variant))]; ὑ. τινὶ ἦ μὴν.. with infinitive future, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.81)]; Κορίνθιοι ὑπεδέξαντο τὴν τιμωρίαν undertook to champion their cause, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.25; ὥσπερ ὑπεδέξασθε, βοηθήσατε [prev. work] 71)]; ὑ. μεγάλα τινί make him great promises, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.121. ; τὴν ἀτραπὸν ἐθελονταὶ Φωκέες ὑποδεξάμενοι Λεωνίδῃ ἐφύλασσον [prev. author] 7.217; ἃ ὑπεδέξατο οὐκ ἐπετέλει 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.95)]; undertake to contribute, ὅσον ἂν ἕκαστος θέλῃ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“AJP” 56.362 (Colophon, 4th c.BC); _absolutely_, [prev. passage]; ὑπεδέξαντο εἰς τὰ τείχη [prev. work]363; also τὰ ἐκφόρια ἅπερ ὑπεδέξω)] the rents which you undertook to collect, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (POxy. 1134.7 (5th c.AD).)]
III.2 accept as a responsibility, take in charge, as a nurse, [Refs (“hymnus ad Cererem” 226)]; of officials, shippers, farm bailiffs, etc., take over, receive as agent (compare ὑποδέκτης), τοὺς νεολέκτους.. ὑποδεξάμενοι κατὰ διαδοχὴν.. παραπέμψατε Wilcken [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“Chr.” 469.5 (4th c.AD))]; καταπιστεῦσαι Αὐρηλίῳ Πέτρῳ.. σιτομέτρῃ.. ὑποδέξασθαι τὸν δημόσιον σῖτον [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“Sammelb.” 5273.4 (5th c.AD))], cf. Wilcken [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“Chr.” 434.12 (4th c.AD), “PLips.” 34v. 7, 58.9, +others (4th c.AD), “POxy.” 1899.16, 1982.17 (5th c.AD), “Codex Justinianus [4th-6th c.AD]” 1.5.18.11; τὴν ὑποδοχὴν πᾶσαν τοῦ μακαρίου Ἰούστου αὐτὸς ὑπόδεξαι “POxy.” 1838.1 (6th c.AD))]; accept (as a liability) a dowry or donatio ante nuptias, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“Codex Justinianus [4th-6th c.AD]” 5.17.12, 6th c.AD: Justinianus Imperator “Novellae” 22.19.)]
IV receive in succession, take up, μέλος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 1022 (Lyric poetry); περαιωθέντας.. λειμὼν ὑποδέχεται 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Luct.” 5, compare “VH” 2.44; τὴν εἰς τὸ στόμα φορὰν τῶν περιττωμάτων ὑποδέχεται στόμαχος 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.421, compare 432, 18(2).163,176,218)]; ὁ ὑποδεξάμενος the receiver of stolen goods, [Refs (“Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 1.96.)]
IV.2 intransitive, of a place, come next, τὸ πρὸς τὴν ἠῶ θάλασσα ὑποδέκεται καὶ τενάγεα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.176)]; of rank, come next in order, ὅταν πλείονες συνδειπνῶσι,.. μέσος ὁ κράτιστος (i.e. κάθηται), ὁ δ᾽ ὑποδεχόμενος παρ᾽ αὐτόν [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC: Posidonius Historicus 15J.)]
IV.3 intercept, ὁ μὲν.. ἐπόρουσεν, ὁ δ᾽ ἐμμαπέως ὑπέδεκτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 442; ἐν δυσχωρίᾳ [τοὺς πολεμίους] 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.35)]; of hunters, intercept beaten-up game, [Refs ([prev. work] 2.4.20)]; catch, τὸ πήδημα τῆς σφαίρας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 9.105; ὑπτίαις ταῖς χερσὶ [τὸ μῆλον] 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 1.6; τὸ ἐνθεῦτέν μιν οἱ ἐχθροὶ ὑποδεξάμενοι καὶ ὑπὸ δικαστήριον ἀγαγόντες 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.104)]; catch as in a trap, στυγερὸς δ᾽ ὑπεδέξατο κοῖτος a hateful resting-place receives (entraps) them, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.470)]; ἔτιγάρ νύ με πῆμ᾽ ὑπέδεκτο still more sorrow was in store for me,[Refs (14.275; ἀκλεής νιν δόξα πρὸς ἀνθρώπων ὑποδέξεται)]will be her lot, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 624 (Lyric poetry))]; ὑποδεξαμένης αὐτοὺς πολλῆς ῥύσεως ὕδατος when a rush of water takes them by surprise, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 944b.)]
IV.4 catch, collect a liquid, παιδίον θεασάμενος, ἐπειδὴ κατέαξε τὸ σκεῦος, τῷ κοίλῳ τοῦ ψωμίου τὴν φακῆν ὑποδεχόμενον [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 6.37)]; of channels, receive, τὸ στόμα τῶν μητρέων οὐχ ὑποδέχεται τὸν γόνον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 31; τὴν ἐσομένην τῶν ὑδάτων εἴσροιαν “POxy.” 1409.19 (3rd c.AD))]; κατεφίλει καὶ ὑπεδέχετο τὰ δάκρυα [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.AD(?): Xenophon Ephesius Scriptor Eroticus 1.9; ποταμὸς πάσας ὑποδεχόμενος τὰς ἀνθρωπείας λύμας 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.59.11, compare “Geoponica” 12.2.4, +others)]; ἀγγεῖον τὸ μέλλον ὑποδέξεσθαι τὸ ὕδωρ see reading in [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “(Spiritalia) Pneumatica” 1.24, compare 30.)]