Quick Definition
αἴρω v. I raise, lift up
Strong's Definition
a primary root; to lift up; by implication, to take up or away; figuratively, to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind), specially, to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Hebraism (compare 5375) to expiate sin
KJV Usage: away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up)
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | fut.3sg. ἀρεῖ · aor. ἦρα · inf. ἆραι · pf. ἦρκα · pf.pass. ἦρμαι · aor.pass. ἤρθην · fut.pass. ἀρθήσομαι | ἀπαίρω · ἐκκαθαίρω · ἐξαίρω · ἐπαίρω · καθαίρω · μεταίρω · συναίρω
15.203 · Linear Movement · Carry, Bear
to carry (away), to carry off, to remove, to take (away) to lift up and carry (away)
MAT 4:6 · MAT 9:6 · MAT 11:29 · MAT 14:12 · MAT 14:20 · MAT 15:37 · MAT 17:27 · MAT 20:14 · MAT 21:21 · MAT 24:17 · MAT 24:18 · MAT 24:39 · MAT 27:32 · MRK 2:3 · MRK 2:9 · MRK 2:11 · MRK 2:12 · MRK 6:8 · MRK 6:29 · MRK 6:43 · MRK 8:8 · MRK 8:19 · MRK 8:20 · MRK 11:23 · MRK 13:15 · MRK 13:16 · MRK 15:21 · MRK 15:24 · MRK 16:18 · LUK 4:11 · LUK 5:24 · LUK 5:25 · LUK 6:29 · LUK 6:30 · LUK 8:12 · LUK 8:18 · LUK 9:3 · LUK 9:17 · LUK 11:22 · LUK 11:52 · LUK 17:31 · LUK 19:24 · LUK 19:26 · LUK 22:36 · JHN 1:29 · JHN 2:16 · JHN 5:8 · JHN 5:9 · JHN 5:10 · JHN 5:11 · JHN 5:12 · JHN 8:59 · JHN 11:39 · JHN 11:41 · JHN 11:41 · JHN 15:2 · JHN 17:15 · JHN 19:31 · JHN 19:38 · JHN 19:38 · JHN 20:1 · JHN 20:2 · JHN 20:13 · JHN 20:15 · ACT 20:9 · ACT 21:11 · ACT 22:22 · ACT 27:13 · ACT 27:17 · 1CO 5:2 · 1CO 6:15 · COL 2:14 · REV 10:5 · REV 18:21
20.43 · Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill · Destroy
to destroy, to do away with to destroy, with the implication of removal and doing away with
MAT 9:16 · MRK 2:21 · MRK 4:15 · JHN 11:48 · ACT 8:33 · ACT 8:33 · 1JN 3:5
20.65 · Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill · Kill
to kill, to execute to deprive a person of life, with the implication of this being the result of condemnation by legal or quasi-legal procedures
57.218 · Possess, Transfer, Exchange · Lend, Loan, Interest, Borrow, Bank
to withdraw to withdraw money from a bank
90.96 · Case · To Cause To Experience
Collocation: αἴρω ἀπό
to take away from, to remove from (an idiom, literally: to take from) to cause someone to no longer experience something
MAT 13:12 · MAT 21:43 · MAT 25:28 · MAT 25:29 · MRK 4:25 · JHN 10:18 · JHN 16:22 · EPH 4:31
30.36 · Think · To Think, Thought
Collocation: αἴρω τὴν ψυχήν τινος
to keep in suspense, to keep someone from being able to form a conclusion about something (an idiom, literally: to lift up the soul of someone) to keep someone in suspense so that one cannot come to a conclusion in one’s thinking
24.83 · Sensory Events and States · Pain, Suffering
Collocation: αἴρω τὸν σταυρόν
to be prepared to suffer even unto death, to take up one’s cross (a productive idiomatic expression, literally: to take up one’s cross) to be prepared to endure severe suffering, even to the point of death The idiom ‘to carry one’s cross’ or ‘to take up one’s cross’ involves a number of important features of meaning. Unfortunately, this expression is frequently not understood correctly by many people who hear it or even use it. One reason for this is the actual absence of crucifixion in modern society. If a literal translation is to be employed, then some marginal note will probably be necessary in order to indicate clearly the full implications of such a statement.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
αἴρω (contr. fr. poet. deipw); fut. ἀρῶ; 1 aor. ἦρα, inf. ἄραι, impv. dpov; pf. ἦρκα (Col. ii. 14); Pass., (pres. αἴρομαι]; pf. ἦρμαι (Jn. xx. 1); 1 aor. ἤρθην; (on the rejection of iota subser. in these tenses see Bitm. Ausf. Spr. i. pp. 413, 439 ;[W. 47 (46)]); 1 fut. dpOjcopa; [fr. Hom. down]; in the Sept. generally i. q. NWI; to lift up, raise. 1. to raise up; a. to raise stones, Jn. viii. 59; serpents, Mk. xvi. 18; a dead body, Acts xx. 9. b. to raise upwards, elevate, lift up: the hand, Rey. x. 5; the eyes, Jn. xi. 41; the voice, i. e. speak in a loud tone, ery out, Lk. xvii. 13; Acts iv. 24, (also in prof. writ.) ; τὴν ψυχήν, to raise the mind, i. q. excite, affect strongly (with a sense of fear, hope, joy, grief, ete.) ; in Jn. x. 24 to hold the mind in suspense between doubt and hope, cf. Liicke [or Meyer] ad loc. ¢. to draw up: a fish, Mt. xvii. 27 (ἀνασπᾶν, Hab. i. 15); σκάφην, Acts xxvii. 17; anchors from the bottom of the sea, Acts xxvii. 13, where supply τὰς ἀγκύρας; cf. Kuinoel ad loc.; [W. 594 (552); B. 146 (127)]. 2. to take upon one’s self and carry what has been raised, to bear: twa ἐπὶ χειρῶν, Mt. iv. 6; Lk. iv. 11, (Ps. xe. (xci.) 12); a sick man, Mk. ii. 3; ζυγόν, Mt. xi. 29 (Lam. iii. 27); a bed, Mt. ix.6; Mk. ii. 9, 11 sq.; Lk. v. 24 sq.; Jn. v. 8-12; τὸν σταυρόν, Mt. [x. 38 Lehm. mrg.]; xvi. 24; xxvii. 32; Lk. ix. 23; Mk. viii. 34; x. 21 [in R Lbr.]; xv. 21; [AiOov,! Rey. xviii. 21; to carry with one, [A. V. take]: Mk. vi. 8: Lk. ix. 3; xxii. 36. Both of these ideas are expressed in class. Grk. by the mid. αἴρεσθαι. 3. to bear away what has been raised, carry off; a. to move from its place: Mt. xxi. 21; Mk. xi. 23, (ἄρθητι be thou taken up, removed [B. 52 (45)], sc. from thy place); Mt. xxii. 13 [Rec.]; Jn. ii. 16; xi. 39, 41; xx. 1. b. to take off or away what is attached to anything: Jn. xix. 31, 38 sq.; to tear away, Mt. ix. 16; Mk. ii. 21; to rend away, cut off, Jn. xv. 2. c. to remove: 1 Co. v. 2 (cast out from the church, where ἀρθῇ should be read for Rec. ἐξαρθῇ); tropically: faults, Eph. iv. 31; me > , αἰσθάνομαι
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
αἴρω airō 101x
to take up, lift, raise; bear, carry; take away, remove; destroy, kill
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
αἴρω,
[in LXX chiefly for נשׂא, also for לקח, etc.;]
to raise, take up, lift or draw up: Jo 8:59 11:41, Ac 27:17, al.
to bear, carry: Mt 4:6 16:24, al.
to bear or take away, carry off, remove: Mt 21:21, Jo 19:31, I Co 5:12 6:15 (v. Lft., Notes, 216), al.; of the taking away sin by Christ, Jo 1:29, I Jo 3:5. (Cf. ἀπ’, ἐξ-, ἐπ-, μετ-, συν-, ὑπερ-αίρω). For exx. from π., v. MM, VGT, s.v.)
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
αἴρω. For αἴρω, “raise,” (ii/A.D.) ἄραι τὴν χεῖρα, and so 70. 607% 57. for αἴρειν χεῖρας may be specially noted, the Alexandrian inser. in Predsigke 1323 (ii/A.D.): θεῷ ὑψίστῳ καὶ πάντων ἐπόπτῃ Kal Ἡλίῳ καὶ Νεμέσεσι αἴρει ᾿Αρσεινόη ἄωρος τὰς χεῖρας. The inscr. is heathen, but has striking similarity to the Jewish prayer for vengeance on which Deissmann comments in ZAZ p. 423 ff. : is its thought partly due to Jewish suggestion? In P Fay 103% (iti/A.D.) payment is allotted to the bearers of a corpse—tois ἠρκάσι “lift up,”? as in Rev τοῦ, cf. Syd/ 807% One passage (4-601) αὐτόν : cf. P Grenf 11. 77° (iii/iv A.D.) ( = Se/ec- | tions, p. 120). In a magical formula of iii/A.D. instructions are given to take twenty-nine palm leaves, on whicn the names of the gods have been inscribed, and then —épe (= alpe) κατὰ δύο δύο, ‘‘Jift them up two by two,” P Oxy VI. 8861 ( = Selections, p. 111). A good parallel to ταῦτα ἐκ Tov pléjofov]. Jn 19!° ἄρον, ἄρον, σταύρωσον αὐτόν may be illustrated from a strangely incongruous source, the well-known school-boy’s letter, where the boy’s mother is represented as saying—avacratot με’ Gppov αὐτόν, (= Selections, p. 103): cf. Syl? 737% (ii/a.D.) ἐὰν δὲ ἀπειθῇ, αἰρέτωσαν αὐτὸν ἔξω τοῦ πυλῶνος. A parallel of a different kind is found in the defixio from Cnidus, Avacoé—which the editor should not (p. 559) assign to aipety ! In the curious nursery alphabet, P Tebt II. 278 (early i/a.v.) αἴρειν is used six times for stealing (a garment). So in the passive BGU IV. 120118 (A.p. 2) εὕροσαν τὸν στροφέα τοῦ ἑνὸς μέρους [τ]ῆς θύρας ἠρμένον χ[ε]ρσείν. The use is common. With εἰς it can express ‘‘removing to” a place, as P Tebt 11. 308® (a.p. 174)—a man has paid for 20,000 164) τὰς aipotoas τῶν ἐνοικίων | airy pos papyrus stalks ‘t which he has had transported to Tebtunis by Heracleides ” (εἰς T. ἄρας διὰ “H.). The classical use of the middle may be seen in P Lond 8545 (i/ii a.p.) (= ΠΙ. p- 206, Sevections, p. 70) ἀράμενος ἀνάπλο[υν], of a tourist going up the Nile. To Wetstein’s parallels for Lk 197% αἴρεις ὃ οὐκ ἔθηκας C. Taylor (/7S ii. p. 432) adds the Jewish precepts quoted by Philo (Mangey II. 629) ἅ τις παθεῖν ἐχθαίρει μὴ ποιεῖν αὐτόν, ἃ μὴ κατέθηκεν μηδ᾽ ἀναιρεῖσθαι, and Plato Legy. xi. (913 C) κάλλιστον νόμων διαφθείρων καὶ ἁπλούστατον Kal οὐδαμῆ ἀγεννοῦς ἀνδρὸς νομοθέτημα, ὃς εἶπεν' “A μὴ κατέθου μὴ ἀνέλῃς In MGr only as compounded, παίρνω = ἀπαίρω.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
αἴρω (airō) — to take up. ἀείρω, Epic dialect, Ionic dialect, and poetry; αἴρω (once in [Refs 8th c.BC+], Attic dialect and Trag. (except [Refs 4th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect ἀέρρω, [Refs 7th c.BC+]imperfect ἤειρον (συν-) [Refs 8th c.BC+], Epic dialect ἄειρον[Refs 8th c.BC+], Attic dialect and Trag. ᾖρον: future ἀρῶ [ᾱ], contraction for ἀερῶ (which is not found), [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist 1 ἤειρα (συν-) [Refs 8th c.BC+], (παρ-) [Refs 7th c.BC+], Epic dialect ἄειρα[Refs 8th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect imperative ἀέρρατε[Refs 7th c.BC+]; subjunctive ἀέρσῃ[Refs]; participle ἀείρας[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἦρα[Refs 5th c.BC+], 3rd.pers.plural ἤροσαν[LXX+3rd c.BC+], infinitive ἆραι[Refs 3rd c.BC+], participle ἄρας[Refs 5th c.BC+] in all moods]: perfect ἦρκα[Refs 4th c.BC+], (ἀπ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+]pluperfect ἤρκεσαν (ἀπ-) [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle ἀείρομαι (ἀπ-) [Refs 8th c.BC+]; αἴρομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist 1 imperative ἀείραο[Refs 3rd c.BC+]infinitive ἀείρασθαι (ἀντ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+], participle -άμενος[Refs 8th c.BC+]; also ἠράμην [ᾱ- in all moods] [Refs 8th c.BC+], Doric dialect ἄρατο[Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἦρμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+]:— passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: future ἀρθήσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἠέρθην[Refs 3rd c.BC+], (παρ-) [Refs 8th c.BC+], Epic dialect ἀέρθην[Refs 8th c.BC+], 3rd.pers.plural ἄερθεν[Refs 8th c.BC+], subjunctive ἀερθῶ[Refs 5th c.BC+], participle ἀερθείς[Refs 8th c.BC+], participle ἀρθείς[Refs 8th c.BC+], (ἐπ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἤερμαι[Refs 3rd c.BC+]pluperfect 3rd.pers.singular ἄωρτο (for ἤορτο) [Refs 8th c.BC+] has ᾰ, except in late poetry, as [Refs 7th c.BC+]; αἴρω (oncein [Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist ἀρόμην, ἤρετο, etc., infinitive ἀρέσθαι [ᾰ], belong to ἄρνυμαι, which see; ἤρᾰτο may have displaced ἤρετο in Hom,[Refs 8th c.BC+]. The sense attach found in compounds συν-, παρ-αείρω is probably derived from the use see.[Refs]
I. active, lift, raise up, νέκυν[Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὑψόσ᾽ ἀείρας [κυνέην[Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ γῆς αἴ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἱστία στεῖλαν ἀείραντες furled by brailing them up, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; but ἀ. ἱστία hoist sail, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; κοῦφον αἴ. βῆμα walk lightly, trip, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἴ. σκέλη, of a horse, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄρασα μύξας, of a deer, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; αἴ. σημεῖον make a signal, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἴ. μηχανήν, in the theatre, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τεῖχος ἱκανὸν αἴ. [Refs 5th c.BC+] —frequently in participle, ἄρας ἔπαισε he raised [them] and struck, [NT+5th c.BC+]:—passive, ἐς αἰθέρα δῖαν ἀέρθη[Refs 8th c.BC+]; mount up, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄνω ἀρθῆναι, of the sun, to be high in heaven, [Refs 5th c.BC+] to be seized, snatched up, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
I.2. take up, in various uses: draw water, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; gather food, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; pluckherbs, [Refs]
I.3. take up and carry or bring, ἐκ βελέων Σαρπηδόνα δῖον ἀείρας[Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄχθος ἀ. convey, of ships, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; μῆλα ἐξ᾽ Ιθάκης ἄειραν νηυσί carried them off, [Refs]; μή μοι οἶνον ἄειρε bring me not wine, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
I.4. take up and bear, as a burden, μόρον[Refs 5th c.BC+]
I.4. b wear clothes, [LXX]
I.5. of armies or fleets, τὰς ναῦς αἴ. get the ships under sail, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially intransitive, get under way, set out, ἆραι τῷ στρατῷ[Refs]:—passive, ἀερθῆναι[Refs 5th c.BC+]; but ἀερθείς carried too far, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
I.6. raise, levy, λεκτὸν ἀροῦμεν στόλον[Refs 4th c.BC+]
I.7. rear a child, τοῖς τοκεῦσί σ᾽ ἤειρα[Refs 3rd c.BC+]
II. raise up, exalt, ἀπὸ σμικροῦ δ᾽ ἂν ἄρειας μέγαν[Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὄλβον ὅν Δαρεῖος ἦρεν [Refs]:—especially of pride and passion, exalt, excite, ὑψοῦ αἴ. θυμόν grow excited, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἴ. θάρσος pluck up courage, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be raised, increased, ἡ δύναμις ᾔρετο[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἤρθη μέγας rose to greatness, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀρθῆναι φόβῳ, δείμασι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. raise by words, hence, praise, extol, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἴ. λόγῳ to exaggerate, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
III. lift and take away, remove, ἀπό με τιμᾶν ἦραν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; generally, take away, put an end to, κακά[Refs 5th c.BC+]; τραπέζας αἴ. clear away dinner, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; deny (opposed to τίθημι posit), [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; Delph. and Locrian dialect perfect passive participle ἀρμένος cancelled, null and void, ὠνὰ ἀ. καὶ ἄκυρος[Refs]
III.2. make away with, destroy, [NT]away with him! [NT]; ἐκ τῶν ζώντων αἴ. [Refs]
IV. middle, lift, take up for oneself or what is one's own, [πέπλων] ἕν᾽ ἀειραμένη[Refs 8th c.BC+]; hence, carry off, win, πάντας ἀειράμενος πελέκεας[Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV.2. ὄγκον ἄρασθαι to be puffed up, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV.3. raise, lift, τύπωμα ἠρμένοι χεροῖν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; κανοῦν αἴ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ῥόθιον raise a surging cheer, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀείρεσθαι τὰ ἱστία hoist sail, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV.4. raise, stir up, νεῖκος ἀειράμενος[Refs 6th c.BC+]; begin, undertake, πόλεμον[Refs 5th c.BC+] (passive, πόλεμος αἴρεται[Refs 5th c.BC+]; φυγὴν αἴρεσθαι take to flight, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV.5. take upon oneself, undergo, πόνον[Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV.6. absolutely, βαρὺς ἀ. slow to undertake anything, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV.7. take away, remove, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; hence, kill or destroy, [Refs 1st c.BC+]
V. passive, to be suspended, hang, [μάχαιρα] πὰρ ξίφεος μέγα κουλεὸν αἰὲν ἄωρτο[Refs 8th c.BC+]
V.2. in Medicine texts, to be swollen, [σπλὴν] ἀερθείς[Refs 5th c.BC+]