587. apodektos
Lexicon
apodektos: Acceptable, pleasing

Original Word: ἀπόδεκτος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: apodektos
Pronunciation: ah-po-DEK-tos
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-od'-ek-tos)
KJV: acceptable
NASB: acceptable
Word Origin: [from G588 (ἀποδέχομαι - received)]

1. accepted, i.e. agreeable

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
acceptable.

From apodechomai; accepted, i.e. Agreeable -- acceptable.

see GREEK apodechomai

HELPS Word-studies

Cognate: 587 apódektos (an adjective, derived from 588 /apodéxomai, "gladly receive") – properly, what is gladly welcomed because pleasing (acceptable). 587 (apódektos) looks back to the source that prompts the glad receiving (note the prefix, apo). For the believer, this is God Himself (His grace). See 588 (apodexomai).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from apodechomai
Definition
acceptable
NASB Translation
acceptable (2).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 587: ἀπόδεκτος

ἀπόδεκτος (so L T WH accent (and Rev. in 1 Timothy 2:3); others ἀπόδεκτος, cf. Lob. Paralip., p. 498; Göttling, p. 313f; Chandler § 529f), ἀπόδεκτον (see ἀποδέχομαι), a later word, accepted, acceptable, agreeable: 1 Timothy 2:3; 1 Timothy 5:4.

Forms and Transliterations
αποδεκτον απόδεκτον ἀπόδεκτον αποδεσμεύει απόδεσμος apodekton apódekton
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Englishman's Concordance
1 Timothy 2:3 Adj-NNS
GRK: καλὸν καὶ ἀπόδεκτον ἐνώπιον τοῦ
NAS: is good and acceptable in the sight
KJV: and acceptable in the sight
INT: [is] good and acceptable before the

1 Timothy 5:4 Adj-NNS
GRK: γάρ ἐστιν ἀπόδεκτον ἐνώπιον τοῦ
NAS: for this is acceptable in the sight
KJV: good and acceptable before God.
INT: indeed is acceptable before

Strong's Greek 587
2 Occurrences


ἀπόδεκτον — 2 Occ.

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