STRONGS G618:
ἀπολαμβάνω; future
ἀπολήψομαι (
Colossians 3:24; L T Tr WH
ἀπολήμψεσθε; see
λαμβάνω); 2 aorist
ἀπέλαβον; 2 aorist middle
ἀπελαβόμην; from Herodotus down;
1. to receive (from another,
ἀπό [cf. Meyer on
Galatians 4:5; Ellicott ibid. and
Winers De verb. comp. etc. as below])
what is due or
promised (cf.
ἀποδίδωμι, 2):
τ.
υἱοθεσίαν, the adoption promised to believers,
Galatians 4:5;
τὰ 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),
Luke 16:25. Hence,
2. to take again or
back, to recover:
Luke 6:34 [T Tr text WH
λαβεῖν];
Luke 15:27; and
to receive by way of retribution:
Luke 18:30 (L text Tr marginal reading WH text
λάβῃ);
Luke 23:41;
Romans 1:27;
2 John 1:8;
Colossians 3:24.
3. to take from others, take apart or
aside; middle
τινά, to take a person with one aside out of the view of others: with the addition of
ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄχλου κατ’ ἰδίαν in
Mark 7:33 (Josephus,
b. j. 2, 7, 2; and in the Act., 2 Macc. 6:21;
ύστάσπεα ἀπολαβὼν μοῦνον, Herodotus 1, 209; Aristophanes ran. 78;
ἰδίᾳ ἕνα τῶν τριῶν ἀπολαβών, Appendix, b. 104:5, 40).
4. to receive anyone hospitably:
3 John 1:8, where L T Tr WH have restored
ὑπολαμβάνειν.
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