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|strgr=[[middle]] [[voice]] of a [[primary]] [[verb]]; to [[receive]] (in [[various]] applications, [[literally]] or [[figuratively]]): [[accept]], [[receive]], [[take]]. Compare [[λαμβάνω]].
|strgr=[[middle]] [[voice]] of a [[primary]] [[verb]]; to [[receive]] (in [[various]] applications, [[literally]] or [[figuratively]]): [[accept]], [[receive]], [[take]]. Compare [[λαμβάνω]].
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|txtha=([[future]] 2nd [[person]] plural δεξεσθε, bez); 1st aorist ἐδεξάμην; [[perfect]] δεδεγμαι (Sept. [[mostly]] for לָקַח;<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to [[take]] [[with]] the [[hand]]: τό [[γράμμα]] (L [[text]] T Tr WH τά γράμματα), τό [[ποτήριον]], to [[take]] [[hold]] of, [[take]] up, [[τήν]] περικεφαλαίαν ... [[τήν]] μάχαιραν, τό [[παιδίον]] [[εἰς]] ἀγκάλας, to [[take]] up, [[receive]] (German aufnehmen, annehmen);<br /><b class="num">a.</b> used of a [[place]] receiving [[one]]: ὅν [[δεῖ]] οὐρανόν δέξασθαι (οὐρανόν is [[subject]]), [[Plato]], Theact., p. 177a. τελευτησαντας αὐτούς ... ὁ [[τῶν]] κακῶν [[καθαρός]] [[τόπος]] οὐ δέξεται).<br /><b class="num">b.</b> [[with]] the accusative of [[person]] to [[receive]], [[grant]] [[access]] to, a [[visitor]]; [[not]] to [[refuse]] [[contact]] or [[friendship]]: R G; to [[receive]] to [[hospitality]], [[Homer]] [[down]]); [[παιδίον]], to [[receive]] [[into]] [[one]]'s [[family]] in [[order]] to [[bring]] up and [[educate]], to [[receive]] [[εἰς]] [[τούς]] οἴκους, τάς σκηνάς, [[δέξαι]] τό [[πνεῦμα]] μου, to [[thyself]] in [[heaven]], to [[receive]] favorably, [[give]] [[ear]] to, [[embrace]], [[make]] [[one]]'s [[own]], [[approve]], [[not]] to [[reject]]: [[τόν]] λόγον, τά [[τοῦ]] πνεύματος [[τήν]] παράκλησιν, [[τήν]] ἀγάπην τῆς ἀληθείας [[namely]], commended to [[them]], d. to [[receive]] equivalent to to [[take]] [[upon]] [[oneself]], [[sustain]], [[bear]], [[endure]]: τινα, his [[bearing]] and behavior, [[τήν]] ἀδικίαν, [[Hebrew]] נָשָׂא, [[πᾶν]], ὁ [[ἐάν]] ἐπαχθῇ, μυθον χαλεπόν, [[Homer]], [[Odyssey]] 20,271, and [[often]] in Greek writers).<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to [[receive]], [[get]], (German empfangen): ἐπιστολάς, γράμματα, [[τήν]] βασιλείαν [[τοῦ]] Θεοῦ, to [[become]] a [[partaker]] of the benefits of God's [[kingdom]], λόγια ζῶντα, [[εὐαγγέλιον]], [[τήν]] [[χάριν]] [[τοῦ]] Θεοῦ, to [[learn]]: SYNONYMS: [[δέχομαι]], [[λαμβάνω]]: The earlier classic [[use]] of these verbs sustains in the [[main]] the [[distinction]] laid [[down]] in the glossaries (e. g. Ammonius, [[under]] the [[word]] [[λαβεῖν]]; [[λαβεῖν]] [[μέν]] ἐστι, τό κείμενον τί ἀνέλεσθαι. δέξασθαι δέ, τό διδόμενον ἐκ χειρός), and the [[suggestion]] of a [[self]]-prompted [[taking]] [[still]] adheres to [[λαμβάνω]] in [[many]] connections (cf. [[λαβεῖν]] τινα γυναῖκα, [[ἀρχήν]] [[λαβεῖν]]) in [[distinction]] from a receiving of [[what]] is offered; in [[use]], [[however]], the words [[overlap]] and distinctions [[disappear]]; [[yet]] the [[suggestion]] of a welcoming or an appropriating [[reception]] [[generally]] cleaves to [[δέχομαι]]. See Schimdt, [[chapter]] 107, [[who]] treats of the [[compound]] of [[δέχομαι]]. in [[detail]]. Compare: [[ἀναδέχομαι]], [[ἀποδέχομαι]], [[διαδέχομαι]], [[εἰσδέχομαι]], [[ἐκδέχομαι]], [[ἀπεκδέχομαι]], [[ἐνδέχομαι]], [[ἐπιδέχομαι]], [[παραδέχομαι]], [[προσδέχομαι]], [[ὑποδέχομαι]].]
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