adjective
apodektem
Strong’sG587
worthy to be received, acceptable, welcome
stem apodekt-2 times in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† ἀπό-δεκτος, -ον
(< άποδέχομαι),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G587 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidap-od'-ek-tos
accepted, i.e. agreeable
Fromfrom G588;
King Jamesacceptable.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ή, όν probable reading in Refs 1st c.BC+, acceptable, welcome, NT+1st c.AD+: comparative -ότεροςRefs 1st c.AD+ adverb -τωςRefs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | apodektos | apodektas | apodektem2×ἀπόδεκτον | apodektois | apodektais | apodekteim |
| object accusative | apodekton | apodektan | apodektoin | apodektain | ||
| direct address vocative | apodektor | apodektar | apodektoir | apodektair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | apodektou | apodektau | apodekteu | apodektoiu | apodektaiu | apodekteiu |
| to, for dative | apodekto | apodekta | apodekte | apodektoi | apodektai | apodektei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
apodekt is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
apodektem“pleasing”subject or objectdirect singular2×
1 Timothy 2:3“acceptable”houtem kalem kai apodektem enōpion tou sōtērou nu theou,This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,
1 Timothy 5:4… apodōarō toi progonoi, houtem gar atō apodektem enōpion tou theou.… repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.