ἀποδέχομαι
to accept
‘to accept’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (14%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (14%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Infinitive 1 time (14%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (14%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (14%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (14%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 time (14%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G588 appears — 7 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 8:40 ἀπεδέξατο aor mid.dep ind 3sg It happened, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.
- Luke 9:11 ἀποδεξάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, and spoke to them of the Kingdom of God, and he cured those who needed healing.
Acts 5 verses
- Acts 2:41 ἀποδεξάμενοι aor mid.dep ptcp nom pl masc Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
- Acts 18:27 ἀποδέξασθαι aor mid.dep inf When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;
- Acts 21:17 ἀπεδέξαντο aor mid.dep ind 3pl When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.
- Acts 24:3 ἀποδεχόμεθα pres mid/pass.dep ind 1pl we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.
- Acts 28:30 ἀπεδέχετο impf mid/pass.dep ind 3sg Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who were coming to him,
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to accept” is the headline sense of the Greek verb αποδεχομαι (apodéchomai). It clusters heavily in Acts, which alone accounts for 71% of its uses. With 7 verses in 2 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. First canonically at Luke 8:40, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 7-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G588 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 7 verses · 100%
- Gospels 2 verses · 29%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Received 2×
- American Standard Version: Received 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Welcomed 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Welcomed 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G588 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G588 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G588 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G588 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to accept from, receive
- to accept what is offered from without
Word origin
Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G588 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀπεδέξαντο apedéxanto | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 21:17 | 1 |
| ἀπεδέξατο apedéxato | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 8:40 | 1 |
| ἀπεδέχετο apedécheto | Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 28:30 | 1 |
| ἀποδέξασθαι apodéxasthai | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Infinitive | Acts 18:27 | 1 |
| ἀποδεξάμενοι apodexámenoi | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 2:41 | 1 |
| ἀποδεξάμενος apodexámenos | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 9:11 | 1 |
| ἀποδεχόμεθα apodechómetha | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | Acts 24:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G588, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- απαγγελλω apangéllō G518 to report
- απαγχομαι apánchomai G519 to strangle
- απαγω apágō G520 to lead away
- απαιρω apaírō G522 to take away
- απαιτεω apaitéō G523 to demand back
- απαλγεω apalgéō G524 to cease grieving
- απαλλασσω apallássō G525 to depart
- απαλλοτριοω apallotrióō G526 to estrange
- απανταω apantáō G528 to meet
- απαρνεομαι aparnéomai G533 to deny
- απαρτι apárti G534 henceforth
- απαρχη aparchḗ G536 to offer firstfruits
- απαυγασμα apaúgasma G541 brightness
- απειδω apeídō G542 to look away
- απειμι ápeimi G548 to depart
- απειμι ápeimi G549 to depart
- απειπομην apeipómēn G550 to declare
- απεκδεχομαι apekdéchomai G553 waiting for
- απεκδυομαι apekdýomai G554 to despoil
- απελαυνω apelaúnō G556 to drive away
- απελεγμος apelegmós G557 censure
- απελευθερος apeleútheros G558 freedman
- απελπιζω apelpízō G560 not despairing
- απεναντι apénanti G561 opposite
+85 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 113 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
