Greek verb · G3980
πειθαρχέω
peitharcheopi-tharkh-eh'-o
to obey
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: peitharchéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3980is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3980
to be persuaded by a ruler, i.e. (genitive case) to submit to authority; by analogy, to conform to advice
The King James renders it: hearken, obey (magistrates).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
peitharcheo is rendered "to obey". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 5:29But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
Acts 5:29πειθαρχεῖν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- having been obedient1
- obeying1
- to be obedient1
- To obey1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πειθαρχεῖν2
- πειθαρχήσαντάς1
- πειθαρχοῦσιν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-PAN
- verb · aorist active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine plural1V-AAP-APM
- verb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1V-PAP-DPM
Acts
three uses
But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
- πειθαρχεῖνpeitharcheinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: To obey
We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”
- πειθαρχοῦσινpeitharchousinverb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: obeying
After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete. Then you would have averted this disaster and loss.
- πειθαρχήσαντάςpeitharchesantasverb · aorist active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: having been obedient
Titus
one use
Remind the believers to submit to rulers and authorities, to be obedient and ready for every good work,
- πειθαρχεῖνpeitharcheinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be obedient
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.