# G1926 ἐπιδέχομαι

ἐπιδέχομαι (epidéchomai), Strong’s G1926: to admit (as a guest or (figuratively) teacher) KJV: receive. Occurs 14 times.

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*epidéchomai* — to admit (as a guest or (figuratively) teacher)

KJV: receive

Built from [ἐπί epí](https://besorah.bible/word/G1909) (meaning superimposition) + [δέχομαι déchomai](https://besorah.bible/word/G1209) (to receive)

Occurs 14 times.

## Where it occurs
- [3 John 1:9](https://besorah.bible/besorah/3-john/1?v=9) — I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.
- [3 John 1:10](https://besorah.bible/besorah/3-john/1?v=10) — Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not…
- [1 Esdras 9:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-esdras/9?v=14) — So Jonathan the son of Azael and Ezekias the son of Thocanus took the matter on themselves. Mosollamus and Levis and…
- [Sirach 41:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/41?v=1) — O death, how bitter is the memory of you to a man who is at peace in his possessions, to the man who has nothing to…
- [Sirach 51:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/51?v=26) — Put your neck under the yoke, and let your soul receive instruction. She is near to find.
- [1 Maccabees 1:42](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-maccabees/1?v=42) — and that each should forsake his own laws. All the nations agreed according to the word of the king.
- [1 Maccabees 9:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-maccabees/9?v=31) — So Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time, and rose up in the place of his brother Judas.
- [1 Maccabees 10:46](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-maccabees/10?v=46) — Now when Jonathan and the people heard these words, they gave no credence to them, and didn’t accept them, because they…
- [1 Maccabees 12:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-maccabees/12?v=8) — Onias welcomed honorably the man who was sent and received the letters, wherein declaration was made of alliance and…
- [1 Maccabees 12:43](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-maccabees/12?v=43) — He received him honorably, and commended him to all his friends, and gave him gifts, and commanded his forces to be…