- Transliteration: Dechomai

- Phonetic: dekh'-om-ahee

- Definition:

1. to take with the hand

a. to take hold of, take up

2. to take up, receive

a. used of a place receiving one

b. to receive or grant access to, a visitor, not to refuse intercourse or friendship

1. to receive hospitality

2. to receive into one's family to bring up or educate

c. of the thing offered in speaking, teaching, instructing

1. to receive favourably, give ear to, embrace, make one's own, approve, not to reject

d. to receive. i.e. to take upon one's self, sustain, bear, endure

3. to receive, get

a. to learn

- Origin: middle voice of a primary verb

- TDNT entry: 02:50,1

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: Middle voice of a primary verb; to receive (in various applications literally or figuratively): - accept receive take. Compare G2983" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2983.