3980. peitharcheó
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peitharcheó: to obey authority
Original Word: πειθαρχέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: peitharcheó
Phonetic Spelling: (pi-tharkh-eh'-o)
Short Definition: I obey one in authority
Definition: I obey one in authority, conform to advice, obey, follow.

HELPS word-Studies

3980 peitharxéō (from 3982 /peíthō, " persuade" and 746/arxē, "what comes first") – properly, persuaded of what must come first, i.e. what has priority (the higher authority).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from a comp. of peithó and archó
Definition
to obey authority
NASB Translation
followed...advice (1), obedient (1), obey (2).

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 3980: πειθαρχέω

πειθαρχέω, πειθάρχω; 1 aorist participle πειθαρχησας; (πείθαρχος; and this from πείθομαι and ἀρχή); to obey (a ruler or a superior): Θεῷ, Acts 5:29, 32; magistrates, Titus 3:1 (others take it here absolutely, to be obedient); τῷ λόγῳ τῆς δικαιοσύνης, Polycarp, ad Philipp. 9, 1 [ET]; (A. V. to hearken to) one advising something, Acts 27:21. (Sophocles, Xenophon, Polybius, Diodorus, Josephus, Plutarch, others; on the very frequent use of the verb by Philo see Siegfried, Philo von Alex. as above with, p. 43 (especially, p. 108).)



Strong's
to obey authority

From a compound of peitho and archo; to be persuaded by a ruler, i.e. (genitive case) to submit to authority; by analogy, to conform to advice -- hearken, obey (magistrates).

see GREEK peitho

see GREEK archo

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