welcoming
2 occurrences across the corpus
KJV Apocrypha (Eastern Orthodox Additions)
3 Maccabees 1:8
The Jews sent some of their council and of their elders to him. The greetings, welcoming gifts, and congratulations of the past, given by them, filled him with the greater eagerness to visit their city.
OT Pseudepigrapha
The Letter of Aristeas 7:42
Welcoming this answer, he asked another how he might become. an object of dread to his enemies.