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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #3980 - πειθαρχέω

Transliteration

peitharchéō

Phonetics

pi-tharkh-eh'-o

Origin

from a compound of (G3982) and (G757)

Parts of Speech

Verb

TDNT

6:9,818

Definition

Thayer's

to obey (a ruler or a superior)

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 8086 ‑ שְׁמַע (shem‑ah');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

KJV (4)

Acts

Titus

NAS (5)

Acts

Titus

HCS (4)

Acts

Titus

BSB (4)

Acts

Titus

ESV (4)

Acts

Titus

WEB (7)

Acts

Titus

Verse Results

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

πειθαρχ-έω,

obey one in authority, abs., πειθαρχεῖ.., ἄπληκτος ὥσπερ ἵππος Eup. 232, cf. Arist. Pol. 1262b3: mostly c. dat., π. πατρί S. Tr. 1178; τοῖς νόμοισι Ar. Ec. 762; τοῖς ἐφεστῶσι X. Mem. 3.5.19, cf. Pl. R. 538d; ὡς ἂν.. τοῖς πηδαλίοις ἡ ναῦς π. Cratin. 139; τοῖς προσταχθεῖσιν Isoc. 3.13; τῷ λόγῳ Arist. Pol. 1295b6: c. gen. (cf. πείθω B. 1.3), ἐπιταγμάτων Epist. Darei in SIG 22.7 (v B. C.); στρατηγοῦ OGI 12.11 (Priene, iii B. C.), cf. 244.38 (Syria, ii B. C.); τινος PGiss. 2.16 (ii B. C.): — Med., ἔθνος.. πειθαρχέεσθαι ἑτοῖμον Hdt. 5.91.

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

πειθαρχέω , -ῶ

(<πείθομαι , ἀρχή ),

[in LXX: Da LXX Daniel 7:27 (H8086), Sirach 33:28, 1 Esdras 8:94 *;]

to obey one in authority, be obedient: Titus 3:1; c. dat., Acts 27:21; θεῷ , Acts 5:29; Acts 5:32.†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

";how great,"; is often used for ἡλίκος (Blass-Debrunner § 304), which is a v.l. in Galatians 6:11 B* 33 : cf. Colossians 2:1 and see s.v. ἡλίκος. Πηλίκος occurs elsewhere in the NT only in Hebrews 7:4 and in the LXX in Zechariah 2:2, 4 Maccabees 15:22. On the meaning of πηλίκα γράμματα in Gal l.c. see s.v. cf. γράμμα and cf. Milligan Documents p. 23 f.

List of Word Forms

Πειθαρχειν πειθαρχείν Πειθαρχεῖν πειθαρχησαντας πειθαρχήσαντάς πειθαρχουσιν πειθαρχούσιν πειθαρχοῦσιν Peitharchein Peitharcheîn peitharchesantas peitharchēsantas peitharchḗsantás peitharchousin peitharchoûsin

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