Matthew 15:2
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
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Tradition
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1 Peter 1:18
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
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παράδοσις
parádosis · par-ad'-os-is
10 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
transmission, i.e. (concretely) a precept; specially, the Jewish traditionary law
Strong's KJV usage: :--ordinance, tradition.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 15:2Strong's last: 2 Thessalonians 3:6
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For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
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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?
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For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
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And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
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Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
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tradition
TRADI'TION, noun [Latin traditio, from trado, to deliver.]
1. Delivery; the act of delivering into the hands of another.
A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.
The sale of a movable is completed by simple tradition
2. The delivery of opinions, doctrines, practices, rites and customs from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any opinions or practice from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials. Thus children derive their vernacular language chiefly from tradition Most of our early notions are received by tradition from our parents.
3. That which is handed down from age to age by oral communication. The Jews pay great regard to tradition in matters of religion, as do the Romanists. Protestants reject the authority of tradition in sacred things, and rely only on the written word. Traditions may be good or bad, true or false.
Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle. 2 Thessalonians 2:15.
Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your traditions? Matthew 15:2.
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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