# παραδίδωμι
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From παρά (pará, “to”) + δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.ra.dí.dɔː.mi/ → /pa.raˈði.ðo.mi/ → /pa.raˈði.ðo.mi/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pa.ra.dí.dɔː.mi/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /pa.raˈdi.do.mi/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /pa.raˈði.ðo.mi/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /pa.raˈði.ðo.mi/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /pa.raˈði.ðo.mi/

### Verb

πᾰρᾰδῐ́δωμῐ • (paradídōmi)
* to give or hand over to another, transmit
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.117
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.98
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 776B
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.135
** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Aratus 7
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.159
** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 399
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.6.17
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 10.28
** Inscriptiones Graecae 123.49
** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Critias 106B
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.3.4
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 178A
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 372D
** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 93C
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.73
** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 64
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 811E
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 9.8
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 5.11.4
** 108 CE, Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 2.14.2
** to give a city or person into another's hands
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.149
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.13
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.98
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.86
*** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Collected Works 24
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.4.51
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.1.28
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.16
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 84A
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 82C
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 250E
** to give up to justice
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.45
*** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 146.19
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 141.15
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7.3
** to hand down legends, opinions, etc.
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Philebus 16C
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Charmides 157E
* to grant, bestow
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.96
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 10.155
** (with infinitive) to allow one to
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.210
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.103
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.67
*** 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1393
** (absolute) to permit
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.18
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.4.34
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 106C
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 22.24.9
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 5.4
* to hazard
** New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 15:26

#### Related terms

* παράδοσις (parádosis)

#### Descendants

* Greek: παραδίδω (paradído)
* → Coptic: ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲇⲓⲇⲟⲩ (paradidou)

### Further reading

* “παραδίδωμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “παραδίδωμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* παραδίδωμι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* “παραδίδωμι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G3860 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible