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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Obey

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

69exact KJV occurrences 43Old Testament 26New Testament 26books containing the word 10mapped Strong's IDs 66occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 27:8

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

1 Peter 4:17

For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where obey appears.

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ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

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HebrewH8085
שָׁמַע

shâmaʻ · shaw-mah'

40 times translated as this KJV form1,160 total Strong's occurrences

v

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

Strong's KJV usage: × attentively, call (gather) together, × carefully, × certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, × diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), × indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, × surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.

Strong's first: Genesis 27:8Strong's last: Zechariah 6:15

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GreekG3982
πείθω

peíthō · pi'-tho

5 times translated as this KJV form63 total Strong's occurrences

to convince (by argument, true or false); by analogy, to pacify or conciliate (by other fair means); reflexively or passively, to assent (to evidence or authority), to rely (by inward certainty)

Strong's KJV usage: :--agree, assure, believe, have confidence, be (wax) conflent, make friend, obey, persuade, trust, yield.

Strong's first: Romans 2:8Strong's last: James 3:3

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GreekG3980
πειθαρχέω

peitharchéō · pi-tharkh-eh'-o

2 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences

to be persuaded by a ruler, i.e. (genitive case) to submit to authority; by analogy, to conform to advice

Strong's KJV usage: :--hearken, obey (magistrates).

Strong's first: Acts 5:29Strong's last: Acts 5:32

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GreekG5255
ὑπήκοος

hypḗkoos · hoop-ay'-ko-os

1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

attentively listening, i.e. (by implication) submissive

Strong's KJV usage: :--obedient.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Acts 7:39Strong's last: Acts 7:39

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HebrewH4928
מִשְׁמַעַת

mishmaʻath · mish-mah'-ath

1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

audience, i.e. the royal court; also obedience, i.e. (concretely) a subject

Strong's KJV usage: bidding, guard, obey.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Isaiah 11:14Strong's last: Isaiah 11:14

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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Clear
Isaiah 11:14
H4928

But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

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obey

OBEY, verb transitive [Latin obedio; Gr.]

1. To comply with the commands, orders or instructions of a superior, or with the requirements of law, moral, political or municipal; to do that which is commanded or required, or to forbear doing that which is prohibited.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Ephesians 6:1.

Servants, obey in all things your masters. Colossians 3:20.

He who has learned to obey will know how to command.

2. To submit to the government of; to be ruled by.

All Israel obeyed Song of Solomon 1:1Chron. 29. Daniel 7:27.

3. To submit to the direction or control of. Seamen say, the ship will not obey the helm.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Romans 6:12. James 3:3.

4. To yield to the impulse, power or operation of; as, to obey stimulus.

Relentless time, destroying power, whom stone and brass obey

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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