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2.
(
1
, 353) signifies (a) “to take up” ( ), e.g., Acts 1:2,
11, 22 (
RV
, “received”); (b) “to take to oneself,” Acts 7:43; or “to one’s company,” 20:13,
14; 23:31; 2 Tim. 4:11; of “taking up spiritual armor,” Eph. 6:13, 16. See
RECEIVE
.
3.
(
1
, 618), besides its common meaning, “to receive,”
denotes “to take apart or aside,” Mark 7:33, middle voice. It is frequent in the papyri,
and, in the sense of separation or drawing aside, is illustrated in a message of sorrow,
concerning the nonarrival of one who with others had been “shut up” as recluses in a
temple (Moulton and Milligan,
F !
). See
RECEIVE
.
4.
(
#
1
, 1949), in the middle voice, “to lay hold of, take hold
of,” is used literally, e.g., Mark 8:23; Luke 9:47; 14:4; metaphorically, e.g., Heb. 8:9, “(I)
took them (by the hand)”: for other instances in each respect see
HOLD
, No. 7.
5.
(
1
, 2638), “to lay hold of,” is rendered “to take,” in
Mark 9:18; John 8:3, 4. See
APPREHEND
.
6.
(
1
, 3335), “to get, or have, a share of,” is rendered “to
take (food)” in Acts 2:46,
RV
(
KJV
, “did eat,” see
EAT
, Note); 27:33, i.e., “to share it
together.” See
HAVE
,
PARTAKE
,
RECEIVE
.
7.
(
$
1
, 3880), besides its meaning “to receive,” denotes “to
take to (or with) oneself,” of “taking” a wife, e.g., Matt. 1:20, 24; of “taking” a person or
persons with one, e.g., Matt. 2:13, 14, 20, 21; 4:5, 8; of demons, 12:45; of Christ and His
disciples, 17:1; 20:17; Mark 9:2; 10:32; 14:33; of witnesses, Matt. 18:16; of the removal
of persons from the earth in judgment, when “the Son of Man is revealed,” Matt. 24:40,
41; Luke 17:34, 35 (cf. the means of the removal of corruption, in v. 37); of the “taking”
of Christ by the soldiers for scourging, Matt. 27:27,
RV
, and to crucifixion, John 19:16;
see also Acts 15:39; 16:33; 21:24, 26, 32; 23:18. See
RECEIVE
.
8.
$
(
$
1
, 4838),
$
, “with,” and No. 7, denotes “to
take along with oneself,” as a companion, Acts 12:25; 15:37, 38; Gal. 2:1.¶
9.
(
$
1
, 4355), “to take to oneself” (
), is used of food,
Acts 27:33-36; of persons, of Peter’s act toward Christ, Matt. 16:22; Mark 8:32; for evil
purposes, Acts 17:5; for good purposes, 18:26. See
RECEIVE
.
10.
(
$
1
, 4301) is rendered “to take before” in 1 Cor. 11:21.
See
COME
,
Note
(2) at end,
OVERTAKE
.
11.
$
(
1
, 4815), “to seize, take,” is rendered “to take” in Matt.
26:55 and Mark 14:48,
KJV
(
RV
, “seize”); Luke 5:9; Acts 1:16; in 12:3 and 23:27,
KJV
(
RV
, “seize”). See
CATCH
,
CONCEIVE
,
HELP
.
12.
(
5$
, 142), “to lift, carry, take up or away,” occurs very frequently with its
literal meanings. In John 1:29 it is used of Christ as “the Lamb of God, which taketh
away the sin of the world,” not the sins, but sin, that which has existed from the time of
the Fall, and in regard to which God has had judicial dealings with the world; through the
expiatory sacrifice of Christ the sin of the world will be replaced by everlasting
righteousness; cf. the plural, “sins”, in 1 John 3:5. Righteous judgment was “taken away”
from Christ at human tribunals, and His life, while voluntarily given by Himself (John