Strong's Lexicon

G618

G618 — ἀπολαμβάνω

Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

GreekapolambanoverbOccurrences: 10

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:G618
Word:ἀπολαμβάνω
Part of Speech:verb
Etymology:from G575 and G2983
Language:Greek
Occurrences:10
Transliteration:apolambano
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:ap-ol-am-ban'-o
Meaning:1. to receive 2. (specially) to receive in full, or as a host 3. (also) to take aside
KJV Renderings:receive, take

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀπολαμβάνω; future ἀπολήψομαι (Col 3:24; L T Tr WH ἀπολήμψεσθε; see λαμβάνω); 2 aorist ἀπέλαβον; 2 aorist middle ἀπελαβομην; from Herodotus down;

1. to receive (from another, ἀπό (cf. Meyer on Gal 4:5; Ellicott ibid. and Winers De verb. comp. etc. as below)) what is due or promised (cf. ἀποδίδωμι, 2): τήν υἱοθεσίαν, the adoption promised to believers, Gal 4:5; τά ἀγαθά σου thy good things, which thou couldst expect and as it were demand, which seemed due to thee (Winer’s De verb. comp. etc. Part iv., p. 13), Luk 16:25. Hence,

2. to take again or back, to recover: Luk 6:34 (T Tr text WH λαβεῖν); Luk 15:27; and to receive by way of retribution: Luk 18:30 (L text Tr marginal reading WH text λάβῃ); ; Rom 1:27; 2Jn 1:8; Col 3:24.

3. to take from others, take apart or aside; middle τινα, to take a person with one aside out of the view of others: with the addition of ἀπό τοῦ ὄχλου κατἰδίαν in Mar 7:33 (Josephus, b. j. 2, 7, 2; and in the Act., 2Ma 6:21; ὑστασπεα ἀπολαβών μουνον, Herodotus 1, 209; Aristophanes ran. 78; ἰδίᾳ ἕνα τῶν τριῶν ἀπολαβών, Appendix,

b. 104:5, 40).

4. to receive anyone hospitably: 3Jn 1:8, where L T Tr WH have restored ὑπολαμβάνειν.

Other Resources

Dictionary of New Testament Theology
Colin Brown

Englishman's Greek Concordance

ἀπολαμβάνω (receive)

Mark 7:33

KJV: And he took him aside from the multitude and put his fingers into his ears and he spit and touched his tongue
GK: και απολαβόμενος αυτόν από του όχλου κατ΄ ιδίαν έβαλε τους δακτύλους αυτού εις τα ώτα αυτού και πτύσας ήψατο της γλώσσης αυτού

Luke 6:34

KJV: And if ye lend of whom ye hope to receive what thank have ye for sinners also lend to sinners to receive as much again
GK: και εάν δανείζητε παρ΄ ων ελπίζετε απολαβείν ποία υμίν χάρις εστί και γαρ αμαρτωλοί αμαρτωλοίς δανείζουσιν ίνα απολάβωσι τα ίσα

Luke 15:27

KJV: And he said unto him Thy brother is come and thy father hath killed the fatted calf because he hath received him safe and sound
GK: ο δε είπεν αυτώ ότι ο αδελφός σου ήκει και έθυσεν ο πατήρ σου τον μόσχον τον σιτευτόν ότι υγιαίνοντα αυτόν απέλαβεν

Luke 16:25

KJV: But Abraham said Son remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented
GK: είπεν δε Αβραάμ τέκνον μνήσθητι ότι απέλαβες συ τα αγαθά σου εν τη ζωή σου και Λάζαρος ομοίως τα κακά νυν δε οδε παρακαλείται συ δε οδυνάσαι

Luke 18:30

KJV: Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time and in the world to come life everlasting
GK: ος ου απολάβη πολλαπλασίονα εν τω καιρώ τούτω και εν τω αιώνι τω ερχομένω ζωήν αιώνιον

Luke 23:41

KJV: And we indeed justly for we receive the due reward of our deeds but this man hath done nothing amiss
GK: και ημείς μεν δικαίως άξια γαρ ων επράξαμεν απολαμβάνομεν ούτος δε ουδέν άτοπον έπραξε

Romans 1:27

KJV: And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one toward another men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet
GK: ομοίως τε και οι άρρενες αφέντες την φυσικήν χρήσιν της θηλείας εξεκαύθησαν εν τη ορέξει αυτών εις αλλήλους άρσενες εν άρσεσι την ασχημοσύνην κατεργαζόμενοι και την αντιμισθίαν ην έδει της πλάνης αυτών εν εαυτοίς απολαμβάνοντες

Galatians 4:5

KJV: To redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons
GK: ίνα τους υπό νόμον εξαγοράση ίνα την υιοθεσίαν απολάβωμεν

Colossians 3:24

KJV: Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance for ye serve the Lord Christ
GK: ειδότες ότι από κυρίου απολήψεσθε την ανταπόδοσιν της κληρονομίας τω γαρ κυρίω χριστώ δουλεύετε

2 John 1:8

KJV: Look to yourselves that we lose not those things which we have wrought but we receive a full reward
GK: βλέπετε εαυτούς ίνα μη απολέσωμεν α ειργασάμεθα αλλά μισθόν πλήρη απολάβωμεν

3 John 1:8

KJV: We therefore ought to receive such that we might be fellowhelpers the truth
GK: ημείς ούν οφείλομεν απολαμβάνειν τους τοιούτους ίνα συνεργοί γινώμεθα τη αληθεία
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