Quick Definition
ἀναίρεσις, εως, ἡ n.f. killing, slaying, murder
Strong's Definition
from 337; (the act of) killing
KJV Usage: death
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -εως | αἱρέω (grab, kill)
20.71 · Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill · Kill
to kill, to execute, killing to get rid of someone by execution, often with legal or quasi-legal procedures
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀν-αίρεσις, -ews, 7), (fr. ἀναιρέω, 2, q. ν.), a destroying, killing, murder, ‘taking off’: Acts viii. 1; xxii. 20 Ree. (Sept. only in Num. xi. 15; Judg. xv. 17; Jud. xv. 4; 2 Mace. v.13. Xen. Hell. 6, 3,5; Hdian. 2, 13, 1.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀναίρεσις anairesis 1x
a taking up or away; a putting to death, murder, Acts 8:1*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀν-αίρεσις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἀναιρέω), [in LXX: Nu 11:15 (הָרַג), Jg 15:17 (רָמָה), Jth 15:4, II Mac 5:13*;]
a taking up or away (Thuc.).
a destroying, slaying, murder (Field, Notes, 116; MM, VGT, s.v.): Ac 8:1.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀναίρεσις. Field (oées, p. 116) remarks that ‘killing ” or “ἢ slaying” would be more adequate than ‘‘death” (AV, RV) asa rendering. Since even the AV of 2 Macc 51%, which he notes, does not make ‘‘unto the killing of him” English, we must either keep ‘* death ” or substitute ‘* murder,” which the tone of ἀναιρῶ would fairly justify: see sub voce.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀναίρεσις (anairesis) — murder. ἀναίρ-εσις, εως, ἡ, taking up or away, especially of dead bodies for burial, ὀστέων[Refs 5th c.BC+]; in a sea-fight, νεκρῶν ἢ ναυαγίων ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. taking up, ἀ. καὶ θέσις ὅπλων[Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. undertaking, ἔργων[Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. destruction, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. slaying, putting to death, [LXX+1st c.AD+]; banishment, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.3. repeal, δογμάτων[Refs 1st c.AD+]; quashing of indictment, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II.4. direct confutation of arguments, opposed to διαίρεσις (confutation by drawing a distinction), [Refs 4th c.BC+]; destruction (by argument), τινός[Refs 1st c.BC+]
II.5. Astrology texts, ={ἀκτινοβολία}, Thrasyll. cited in [Refs 3rd c.AD+]