Original Word: πειθαρχέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: peitharcheó
Pronunciation: pay-thar-KHEH-o
Phonetic Spelling: (pi-tharkh-eh'-o)
KJV: hearken, obey (magistrates)
NASB: obey, followed advice, obedient
Word Origin: [from a compound of G3982 (πείθω - persuaded) and G757 (ἄρχω - began)]

1. to be persuaded by a ruler
2. (genitive case) to submit to authority
3. (by analogy) to conform to advice

to obey authority

From a compound of peitho and archo; to be persuaded by a ruler, i.e. (genitive case) to submit to authority; by analogy, to conform to advice -- hearken, obey (magistrates).

see GREEK peitho

see GREEK archo

3980 peitharxéō (from 3982 /peíthō, " persuade" and 746/arxē, "what comes first") – properly, persuaded of what must come first, i.e. what has priority (the higher authority).

Word Origin
from a comp. of peithó and archó
Definition
to obey authority
NASB Translation
followed...advice (1), obedient (1), obey (2).

STRONGS NT 3980: πειθαρχέω

πειθαρχέω, πειθάρχω; 1 aorist participle πειθαρχησας; (πείθαρχος; and this from πείθομαι and ἀρχή); to obey (a ruler or a superior): Θεῷ, Acts 5:29, 32; magistrates, Titus 3:1 (others take it here absolutely, to be obedient); τῷ λόγῳ τῆς δικαιοσύνης, Polycarp, ad Philipp. 9, 1 [ET]; (A. V. to hearken to) one advising something, Acts 27:21. (Sophocles, Xenophon, Polybius, Diodorus, Josephus, Plutarch, others; on the very frequent use of the verb by Philo see Siegfried, Philo von Alex. as above with, p. 43 (especially, p. 108).)

Forms and Transliterations

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

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