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Strong's G2983 · Greek

λαμβάνω

lambano · lam-ban'-o

a prolonged form of a primary verb, which is use only as an alternate in certain tenses; to take (in very many applications, literally and figuratively (properly objective or active, to get hold of; whereas 1209 is rather subjective or passive, to have offered to one; while 138 i


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

λαμβάνω (G2983)

258 λαμβάνω , [in LXX chiefly for לקח , also for נשׂא , לכד , אחז , etc.;] to take , lay hold of : absol., Mt 26:26 , Mk 14:22 ; c. acc. rei, Mt 5:40 26:52 , al. mult.; c. acc. pers., Mt 21:35 , Mk 12:3 , al.; pleonastic λαβών (M, Pr. , 230; Bl., §74, 2), Mt 13:31 14:19 , al.; so also indic., Mk 7:27 , Jo 19:1 , 40 , Re 8:5 , al.; metaph., c. acc. rei, ἀφορμήν , Ro 7:8 , 11 ; ὑδόδειγμα , Ja 5:10 ; id. c. acc. pers., φόβος , Lk 7:16 ; πνεῦμα , Lk 9:39 ; πειρασμός , I Co 10:13 ; aoristic pf. (M, Pr. , 145, 238; Bl., § 59, 4), Re 5:7 8:5 , al. to receive : absol., opp. to αἰτεῖν , Mt 7:8 , al.; διδόναι , Mt 10:8 , Ac 20:35 ; c. acc. rei, Mt 27:6 , Mk 10:30 , al. mult.; c. acc. pers., Jo 6:21 13:20 19:27 , II Jo 10 ; ῥαπίσμασιν (a vulgarism; Bl., § 38, 3), Mk 14:65 ; metaph., τ. λόγον , Mt 13:20 , Mk 4:16 ; τ. μαρτυρίαν , Jo 3:11 ; τ. ῥήματα , Jo 12:48 ; πρόσωπον (Heb. נָשָׂא פָּנִים , Dalman, Words , 30), Lk 20:21 , Ga 2:6 ; ζωὴν αἰώνιον (Dalman, op. cit. , 124 f.), Mk 10:30 (cf. ἀνα- , ἀντι- , συν-αντι- ( -μαι ), ἀπο- , ἐπι- , κατα- , μετα- , παρα- , συν-παρα- , προ- , προσ- , συν- , συν-περι- , ὑπο-λαμβάνω ).

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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