πειθαρχεῖν (peitharchein)

πειθαρχεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of πειθαρχέω, meaning “obey”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 74 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pericles 7.6: … ἄκρατον τοῖς πολίταις ἐλευθερίαν οἰνοχοῶν, ὑφʼ ἧς, ὥσπερ ἵππον, ἐξυβρίσαντα τὸν δῆμον οἱ κωμῳδοποιοὶ λέγουσι πειθαρχεῖν οὐκέτι τολμᾶν, ἀλλὰ δάκνειν τὴν Εὔβοιαν καὶ ταῖς νήσοις ἐπιπηδᾶν.

New Testament, Acts 5.29: ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ Πέτρος καὶ οἱ ἀπόστολοι εἶπαν Πειθαρχεῖν δεῖ θεῷ μᾶλλον ἢ ἀνθρώποις.

All forms of πειθαρχέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.