εὐπειθής, ἐυπειθες (εὖ, and πείθομαι to comply with, obey), easily obeying, compliant (A. V. easy to be intreated): Jas_3:17. (Aeschylus, Xenophon, Plato, and following.)

εὐπειθής eupeithēs 1x easily persuaded, compliant, Jas_3:17

**εὐ -πειθής , ές ( < εὖ , πείθομαι ), [in LXX : 4Ma_12:6 AR* ;] ready to obey, compliant: Jas_3:17 .†

εὐπειθής [page 263] The force of this adj. in Jas_3:17 (cf. 4Ma_12:6 ) willing to yield, compliant, may be illustrated from a contract in which a woman Ammonarion and her daughter Ophelous agree to accept from Antiphanes a certain sum of money in lieu of Ammonarion s dowry P Oxy II. 268 .6 (A.D. 58) συνχωροῦμεν [πρὸς ἀλλήλο ]υς ἐπὶ τοῖσδε , ὥστε ἡ̣ [Ἀμμωνάριο ]ν [καὶ ] ἡ Ὠφελοὺς εὐπιθεῖς γεγονυῖαι καὶ ἀπεσχηκυῖαι [παρὰ τοῦ Ἀντ ]ιφάνους κτλ ., we agree with each other as follows : A. and O. have given their consent and have received from A. etc. (Edd.). Other instances of the word from legal documents of the Augustan age are BGU IV. 1104 .23 (B.C. 10) δ̣ι̣α̣̣ τ̣ο̣υ̣̑ ῢ̣̣π̣ὲρ τούτων εὐπειθῆ γεγονέναι , ib. 1155 .17 (B.C. 10) νυνὶ δὲ ε̣ὐ̣π̣[ε ]ιθὴς γεγονὼς ῢ̣̣π̣ο̣̣ [τῆς ] Μ̣α̣ρ̣θ̣α̣ς̤ , ib. 1163 .7 (B.C. 17). The verb is supplied by the editor in OGIS 665 .5 (A.D. 49) ἵν᾽ εἰδό [τες ] αὐτὰ καὶ [εὐπ ]ειθῆτε , where he explains εὐπειθεῖν as = εὐπειθῆ εἶναι .

εὐπειθής εὐ-πειθής, ές [Etym: πείθω] "ready to obey, obedient", τινι Aesch. , Plat. ; also τινος, id=Plat. act. "persuasive", Aesch.

εὐ-πειθής, ές, (εὖ, πείθομαι), [in LXX: 4Ma.12:6 AR* ;] ready to obey, compliant: Jas.3:17.† (AS)