Lexical Summary antilambanomai: to take instead of, take hold of Original Word: ἀντιλαμβάνομαιTransliteration: antilambanomai Phonetic Spelling: (an-tee-lam-ban'-om-ahee) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to take instead of, take hold of Meaning: to take instead of, take hold of Strong's Concordance help, partake, support. From anti and the middle voice of lambano; to take hold of in turn, i.e. Succor; also to participate -- help, partaker, support. see GREEK anti see GREEK lambano Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 482: ἀντιλαμβάνωἀντιλαμβάνω: middle (present ἀντιλαμβάνομαι); 2 aorist ἀντελαβόμην; to take in turn or in return, to receive one thing for another given, to receive instead of; in middle, frequent in Attic prose writings, 1. to lay hold of, hold fast to, anything: τίνος. 2. to take a person or thing in order as it were to be held, to take to, embrace; with a genitive of the person, to help, succor: Luke 1:54; Acts 20:35 (Diodorus 11, 13; Dio Cassius, 40, 27; 46, 45; often in the Sept.) with a genitive of the thing, to be a partaker, partake of: τῆς εὐεργεσίας of the benefit of the services rendered by the slaves, 1 Timothy 6:2; cf. De Wette at the passage (μήτε ἐσθίων πλειόνων ἡδονῶν ἀντιλήψεται, Porphyry, de abstin. 1, 46; (cf. Eusebius, h. e. 4, 15, 37 and examples in Field, Otium Norv. pars. iii. at the passage cited)) (Compare: συναντιλαμβάνομαι.) |
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