STRONGS G4355:
προσλαμβάνω: 2 aorist infinitive
προσλαβεῖν (
Acts 27:34 Rec. see below); middle, present
προσλαμβάνομαι; 2 aorist
προσελαβομην; from
Aeschylus and
Herodotus down;
to take to, take in addition (cf.
πρός, IV. 2); in the N. T. found only in the middle,
to take to oneself (cf.
Buttmann, § 135, 4):
τινα (cf.
Buttmann, 160f (140));
a. to take as one's companion (
A. V. take one unto one):
Acts 17:5;
Revelation 18
b. to take by the hand in order to lead aside (
A. V. (simply)
take):
Matthew 16:22;
Mark 8:32.
c. to take or (so
A. V.)
receive into one's home, with the collateral idea of kindness:
Philemon 1:12.
R G,
Philemon 1:17; into shelter,
Acts 28:2.
d. to receive, i. e. grant one access to one's heart; to take into friendship and contact:
Romans 14:1;
Romans 15:7; God and Christ are said
προσλάβεσθαι (
to have received) those whom, formerly estranged from them, they have reunited to themselves by the blessings of the gospel,
Romans 14:3;
Romans 15:7;
Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 49, 6 [ET],(cf.
Psalm 26:10 (
Ps. 27:10);
Psalm 64:5 (
Ps. 65:5); Psalm 72:24 (
Ps. 73:24).
e. to take to oneself, to take:
μηδέν (
A. V. having taken nothing) i. e. no food,
Acts 27:33;
τροφῆς (a portion of (
A. V. (not
R. V.) 'some')) food, cf.
Buttmann, 160f (140),
Acts 27:36 (in
Acts 27:34 G L T Tr WH have restored
μεταλαβεῖν (so
R. V. (`to take some food')) for
προσλαβεῖν).
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