Quick Definition
I welcome in
Strong's Definition
to take into one's favor
Derivation: from G1519 (εἰς) and G1209 (δέχομαι);
KJV Usage: receive
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
εἰσδέχομαι: future εἰσδέχομαι; to receive kindly, i. e. contextually, to treat with favor: τινα, 2Co_6:17. (From Pindar and Sophocles down. Synonym: cf. δέχομαι, at the end.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
εἰσδέχομαι eisdechomai 1x
to admit; to receive into favor, receive kindly, accept with favor, 2Co_6:17
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
εἰσ -δέχομαι ,
[in LXX for H6908 ;]
to admit, receive: 2Co_6:17 ( LXX ) ( Cremer , 687).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
εἰσδέχομαι [page 188]
Syll 330 .21 (Roman Age) εἰσδεδεγμένοι τέ εἰσιν εἰς τὰν τᾶς πόλεως χάριν , OGIS 515 .36 (iii/A.D.) τὰς δὲ τοιαύτας προσανγελίας εἰσδέ [χεσθαι τὸν γραμματέα . The verb was used technically in connexion with the receiving or storing of wheat in the θησαυρός , e.g. P Lille I. 13 .3 (B.C. 244 3) : for the corresponding subst. εἰσδοχή see P Tebt I. 123 .4 al. (early i/B.C.), ib. 159 (B.C. 112), P Fay 86 .1 (ii/A.D.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
εἰσδέχομαι ionic ἐσ-δέκομαι fut. -δέξομαι Dep.:— "to take into, admit", ἐς τὸ ἱρόν Hdt. ; c. acc., Eur. ; c. dat., ἄντροις εἰσδέξασθαί τινα "to receive" him "in" the cave, id=Eur. ; εἰσδ. τινα ὑπόστεγον Soph.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
εἰσ-δέχομαι
[in LXX for קָבַץ ;]
to admit, receive: 2Co.6:17 (LXX) (Cremer, 687).†
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