STRONGS G1807:
ἐξαιρέω,
-ῶ: 2 aorist imperative
ἔξελε; middle [present participle
ἐξαιρούμενος]; 2 aorist
ἐξειλόμην and in
Alex. form
(L T Tr WH) ἐξειλάμην (
Acts 7:10 [so Griesbach];
Acts 12:11 [so Griesbach];
Acts 23:27; see references in
[αἱρέω and]
ἐπέρχομαι), infinitive
ἐξελέσθαι (
Acts 7:34);
Sept. usually for
הִצִּיל;
to take out [cf.
ἐκ, VI. 2];
1. to pluck out, draw out, i. e. to root out:
τὸν ὀφθαλμόν,
Matthew 5:29;
Matthew 18:9.
2. Middle
a. to choose out (
for oneself),
select, one person from many:
Acts 26:17 (so for
בָּחַר in
Isaiah 49:7 [but there the
Sept. has
ἐξελεξάμην; perhaps
Isaiah 48:10 is meant] and sometimes in Greek writings; first in Homer, Odyssey 14, 232) [others refer Acts, the passage cited to the next head; (see Hackett at the passage)].
b. to rescue, deliver (properly,
to cause to be rescued, but the middle force is lost [cf. Winer's Grammar, 253 (238)]):
τινά,
Acts 7:34;
Acts 23:27;
τινὰ ἔκ τινος,
Acts 7:10;
Acts 12:11;
Galatians 1:4; (
Exodus 3:8, etc.; Aeschylus suppl. 924; Herodotus 3, 137; Demosthenes, 256, 3; Polybius 1, 11, 11).
Related entry:
ἐξέλε, see ἐξαιρέω.
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