Quick Definition
διάδοχος, ου, ὁ n.m. a successor
Strong's Definition
from 1237; a successor in office
KJV Usage: room
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -ου | δέχομαι
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
διά-δοχος, -ov, 6, ἡ, (διαδέχομαι), succecdiny, a successor : Acts xxiv. 27. (Sir. xlvi. 1; [xlviii. 8]; 2 Mace. xiv. 26; often in Grk. writ. fr. [Aeschyl. and] Hdt. 5, 26 down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
διάδοχος diadochos 1x
a successor, Acts 24:27*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
διά-δοχος, -ου, ὁ, ἡ
(< διαδέχομαι), [in LXX: I Ch 18:17 (לְיַד), II Ch 26:11 (שַׂר) 28:7 (מִשְׁנֶה), Si 46:1 48:8, II Mac 4:29 14:26 * ;]
a successor: Ac 24:27 (for usage in LXX and π. in sense of court official, v. Deiss., BS, 115).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
διάδοχος. The sense required for ΤΙΝ X, supported by Deissmann (see above s. v. διαδέχομαι) from P Tor I. 14615 (B.c. 116) (= Chrest, II, p. 30), can be explained from history, as Peyron showed in a note on P Lond 20!(B.c. 162) (=I. p. 9) Zapaπίωνι τῶν διαδόχων : see Kenyon’s summary aa /oc. Applied originally to Alexander’s ‘‘ reinforcements,” διάδοχοι came to denote a certain rank or privilege in the army of Alexander and his successors, the original meaning having disappeared. The noun not infrequently = deputy, that is a lemporary “successor.” So P Tebt II. 293? (c. A.D. 187) διαδόχου προφητείας, ‘deputy prophet ” (Edd.), 2d. 3134(a.p. 210-1) ἱερέως Kal στολ(ιστείας) διαδόχου, “ὁ priest and deputy stolistes,” and OG/S 867 (B.c. 221-05) with Dittenberger’s note. In Ac 2457 it has its original meaning: cf. the abstract διαδοχή, ‘‘succession,” as in P Petr II. 40 (a)!® (ili/B.c.) (= Witkowski*, p. 41) ἑτοιμάζεται yap ἡ διαδοχή, “*the relief is being equipped,” P Tebt 11. 30228 (a.p. 71-2) τὴν γῆν τὴν ἀντὶ συντάξεως ἡμεῖν ἐκ διαδοχῆς γονέων τετηρημένην, ““Υ inheritance from our ancestors ”’ (Edd.).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
διάδοχος (diadochos) — successor. διάδοχ-ος, ον, succeeding a person in a thing:
1. with dative person et genitive of things, δ. Μεγαβάζῳ τῆς στρατηγίης his successor in the command, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; θνητοῖς.. διάδοχοι μοχθημάτων succeeding them in, i.e. relieving them from, toils, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. with genitive of things only, δ. τῆς Ἀστυόχου ναυαρχίας succeeding to his command, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. with genitive person only, φέγγος ὕπνου δ. sleep's successor light, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
4. with dative person only, δ. Κλεάνδρῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; quasiact., λύπη.. δ. κακῶν κακοῖς bringing a succession of evils after evils, [Refs]; ἀγὼν.. γόων γόοις (γόων bis codices) δ. [Refs]
5. absolutely, διάδοχοι ἐφοίτων they went to work in relays or gangs, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: neuter plural as adverb, in turn, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
6. as substantive, οἱ Δ. the [Refs 1st c.BC+]
6. b the lowest grade of court officials at Alexandria, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
6. c substitute, deputy, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
6. d head of a school of philosophers, τῆς σχολῆς [Refs 1st c.BC+]
6. e a kind of gem, [Refs 1st c.AD+]