παράδοσις paradosis

Greek word for “tradition” · Strong’s G3862 · used 13 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

παρά-δοσις, -εως, ἡ; (παραδίδωμι);

How it is translated

Glosses given for paradosis in context, with how often each is used:

• tradition 10
• traditions 2
• teachings 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Mark 7 (5), Matthew 15 (3), 1 Corinthians 11 (1), Galatians 1 (1), Colossians 2 (1), 2 Thessalonians 2 (1), 2 Thessalonians 3 (1)

Forms

• παράδοσιν 9
• παραδόσεις 2
• παραδόσει 1
• παραδόσεων 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with paradosis more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• παραβαίνω parabainō “to transgress” 2
• ἀκυρόω akuroō “to nullify” 2
• κρατέω krateō “to grasp/seize” 3
• ἐσθίω esthiō “to eat” 3
• ἐντολή entolē “commandment” 3
• πρεσβύτερος presbuteros “elder” 3
• νίπτω niptō “to wash” 2
• χείρ cheir “hand” 3
• λόγος logos “word” 3
• περιπατέω peripateō “to walk” 2
• ἄρτος artos “bread” 2
• Φαρισαῖος Pharisaios “Pharisee” 2

Key verses

The verses using paradosis that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 15:2 — Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
• Matthew 15:3 — But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
• Matthew 15:6 — And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
• Mark 7:3 — For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
• Mark 7:5 — Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
• Mark 7:9 — And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
• Mark 7:13 — Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
• 1 Corinthians 11:2 — Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
• Galatians 1:14 — And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
• Colossians 2:8 — Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:15 — Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
• 2 Thessalonians 3:6 — Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.