G3880: παραλαμβάνω (paralambánō)

G3880 παραλαμβάνω (paralambánō)

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Quick Definition

παραλαμβάνω v. I take, receive

Strong's Definition

from 3844 and 2983; to receive near, i.e. associate with oneself (in any familiar or intimate act or relation); by analogy, to assume an office; figuratively, to learn

KJV Usage: receive, take (unto, with)

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

παραλαμβάνω (G3880)

verb | fut. παραλήμψομαι · aor. παρέλαβον · impv. παράλαβε · fut.pass. παραλημφθήσομαι | λαμβάνω

15.168 · Linear Movement · Lead, Bring, Take

to take along, to bring along to take or bring someone along with

MAT 2:13 · MAT 2:14 · MAT 2:20 · MAT 2:21 · MAT 4:5 · MAT 4:8 · MAT 12:45 · MAT 17:1 · MAT 18:16 · MAT 24:40 · MAT 24:41 · MAT 26:37 · MAT 27:27 · MRK 4:36 · MRK 5:40 · MRK 9:2 · MRK 14:33 · LUK 9:10 · LUK 9:28 · LUK 11:26 · LUK 17:34 · LUK 17:35 · JHN 19:16 · ACT 15:39 · ACT 16:33 · ACT 21:24 · ACT 21:26 · ACT 21:32 · ACT 23:18

15.180 · Linear Movement · Lead, Bring, Take

to lead aside, to take aside to take or lead off to oneself

MAT 20:17 · MRK 10:32 · LUK 18:31

27.13 · Learn · Learn

to learn from someone, to learn about a tradition, to learn by tradition to acquire information from someone, implying the type of information passed on by tradition

MRK 7:4 · 1CO 15:3 · GAL 1:9 · GAL 1:12 · PHP 4:9 · COL 2:6 · 1TH 2:13 · 1TH 4:1 · 2TH 3:6

34.53 · Association · Welcome, Receive

to welcome, to receive, to accept, to have as a guest to accept the presence of a person with friendliness

MAT 1:20 · MAT 1:24 · JHN 1:11 · JHN 14:3 · COL 2:6

37.99 · Control, Rule · Assign to a Role or Function

to receive an appointment, to receive a task, to be assigned a ministry to receive an appointment for a particular ministry

COL 4:17

33.238 · Communication · Teach

to receive instruction from, to be taught by to receive traditional instruction

1CO 11:23 · 1CO 15:1 · 1TH 2:13 · HEB 12:28

¹ There are no doubt certain contextual constraints involved in the choice of ἀναδέχομαι[a], ἀποδέχομαι[a], ἐπιδέχομαι[a], εἰσδέχομαι, ὑποδέχομαι, προσδέχομαι[b], and παραδέχομαι[b] in the sense that the spacial relationships involved in the welcoming of a guest can be reflected in the prepositional prefixes. For example, in LUK 8:40 the use of ἀποδέχομαι may focus upon the particular source, while ἐπιδέχομαι in 3JN 1:10 may be relevant in view of the fact that the believers are coming to a particular point. προσδέχομαι in LUK 15:2 may suggest a kind of reciprocal relationship which is established with outcasts, and παραδέχομαι in ACT 15:4 may simply point to spacial proximity. However, it would be wrong to insist upon clear distinctions in meaning based on the very limited number of contexts involved. Some of these same distinctions in spacial relations may exist for the set προσλαμβάνω[e], παραλαμβάνω[d], ἀπολαμβάνω[d].

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

παρα-λαμβάνω ; fut.rapadnyoua, in LT Tr WH -λήμψομαι (Jn. xiv. 3; see M,); 2 aor. παρέλαβον, 3 pers. plur. παρελάβοσαν (2 Th. iii.6 G T L mrg. Tr mre. WH mrg.; cf. δολεόω [yet see WH. App. p. 165]); Pass., pres. παραλαμβάνομαι; 1 fut. παραληφθήσομαι, in LT Tr WH -Anpφθήσομαι (see M,n; Lk. xvii.34-36) fr. Hdt.down; Sept. for np?; 1. to take to [cf. mapa, IV. 1], to take with one’s self, to join to one’s self: τινά, an associate, a companion, Mt. xvii. 1; xxvi.37; Mk. iv. 36; v.40; ix. 2; x. 32; Lk. ix. 10,28; xi. 26; xviii. 31; Acts xv. 39; in pass., Mt. xxiv. 40, 41; Lk. xvii. 34-36; one to be led off as a prisoner, Jn. xix. 16; Acts xxiii. 18; to take with one in order to carry away, Mt. ii. 13 sq. 20 sq.; τινὰ μεθ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ. Mt. xii. 45; xviii. 16; Mk. xiv. 33; παραλαμβάνειν γυναῖκα, to take one’s betrothed to his home, Mt. i. 20, 24; τινά foll. by εἰς w. an ace. of place, to take [and bring, cf. W. § 66, 2d.] one with one into a place, Mt. iv. 5, 8; xxvii. 27; τινὰ κατ᾽ ἰδίαν, Mt. xx. 17; mid. with πρὸς ἐμαυτόν, to my companionship, where I myself dwell, Jn. xiv. 3. The ptep. is prefixed to other act. verbs to describe the action more in detail, Acts xvi. 33; xxi. 24, 26, 32 [here L WH mrg. λαβών]. Metaph. i. q. to accept or acknowledge one to be such as he professes to be; not to reject, not to withhold obedience: twa, Jn. i. 11. 2. to receive something transmitted ; a. prop.: mapaX. διακονίαν, an office to be discharged, Col. iv. 17; βασιλείαν, Heb. xii. 28, (so for the Chald. ap in Dan. v. 31; vii. 18, Theodot.; Hat. 2, 120; [Joseph. ec. Ap. 1, 20, 5 (where see Miiller)]; τὴν ἀρχήν, Plat., Polyb., Plut.). b. to receive with the mind; by oral transmission: τί foll. by ἀπό w. a gen. of the author from whom the tradition proceeds, 1 Co. xi. 23 (on which cf. Paret in the Jahrbb. f. deutsche Theol. for 1858, Bd. iii. p. 48 sqq.; [see reff. in ἀπό, IT. 2 d. aa.]); by the narration of others, by the instruction of teachers (used of disciples) : [τὸν Xp. “I. τὸν κύριον, Col. ii. 6]; τί, 1 Co. xv. 1, 3; Gal.i.9; Phil.iv. 9; [τί foll. by an infin., Mk. vii. 4]; τὶ παρά twos [see reff. s. v. παρά, I. c.], Gal. i. 12; 1 Th. ii. 13; 2 Th. iii. 6; mapa τινος, καθὼς ... τὸ πῶς δεῖ ete. 1 Th. iv. 1, (σοφίαν παρά τινος, Plat. Lach. p.197d.; Euthyd. p. 3804 6.). [Comp.: συμ-παραλαμβάνω.}

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

παραλαμβάνω paralambanō 49x

pr. to take to one’s side; to take, receive to one’s self, Mt. 1:20; Jn. 14:3; to take with one’s self, Mt. 2:13, 14, 20, 21; 4:5, 8; to receive in charge or possession, Col. 4:17; Heb. 12:28; to receive as a matter of instruction, Mk. 7:4; 1 Cor. 11:23; 15:3; to receive, admit, acknowledge, Jn. 1:11; 1 Cor. 15:1; Col. 2:6; pass. to be carried off, Mt. 24:40, 41; Lk. 17:34, 35, 36

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

παρα-λαμβάνω,

[in LXX chiefly for לקח, also for ירשׁ, etc.;]

c. acc. rei, like παραδέχομαι, correl. to παραδίδωμι, to receive from another: Col 4:17, He 12:28; of the mind, I Co 11:23 15:1, 3, Ga 1:9, Phl 4:9; c. inf., Mk 7:4; seq. παρά, c. gen., Ga 1:12, I Th 2:13 4:1, II Th 3:6; τ. Χριστόν (Lft., in l.), Col 2:6.

C. acc. pers., to take to or with oneself: Mt 2:13, 14, 20, 21 17:1 26:37, Mk 4:36 5:40 9:2 10:32, Lk 9:10, 28 11:26 18:31 Jo 19:16, Ac 15:39 23:18; γυναῖκα, Mt 1:20, 24; μεθ’ ἑαυτοῦ, Mt 12:45 18:16, Mk 14:33; seq. εἰς, Mt 4:5, 8 27:27; κατ’ ἰδίαν, Mt 20:17; mid., seq. πρὸς ἐμαυτόν, Jo 14:3; pass., Mt 24:40, 41, Lk 17:34-36; ptcp., prefixed to other verbs (Bl, § 74, 2), Ac 16:33 21:24, 26, 32; metaph., Jo 1:11.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

παραλαμβάνω is the usual expression for receiving anything but money, for which ἀπέχω (aor. ἔσχον) is regularly used. Its correlative, as in the NT, is παραδίδωμι : thus Sy// 588 (c. B.c. 180), a long account of ἀναθήματα in the Temple of Apollo at Delos, begins τάδε παρελάβομεν ἐν τῶι ναῶι τοῦ ᾿Απόλλωνος παρὰ ἱεροποιῶν . . . καὶ παρέδομεν τοῖς μεθ᾽ ἑαυτοὺς ἱεροποιοῖς. Cf. also the illiterate P Oxy IV. 7425. (B.c. 2) (=Witkowski?, p. 127 f.) παράλαβε παρὰ ἸΠόθου τὸν κάλαμ[ο]ν mava[p](Quwr. . . ἀπόστειλόν plo]. πόσας δέσμας παρείληφες (for form, /roleg. p. 52) . . - παράδος δέ τινι τῶν φίλων ἀριθμῷ αὐτάς, ‘receive from Pothus the reeds all tovether, send me Word how many bundles you have received, and deliver a few of them (see s.v. παραδίδωμι) to one of our friends.” Wilcken Osé. i. p. 109 quotes a few instances of ἔλαβον in receipts with its correlative παρέλαβον in one place: on the relation of παρέλαβον to ἔλαβον in Jn 115 see Proleg. p- 115. Other exx. of the verb are P Fay 123! (c. A.D. 100) παραλέγομαι 48 παραλάβωμεν τὸ ἐλάδιον λυί(--οι)πὸν ἐὰν δόξῃ σοι, “‘ let us get from him the rest of the oil if you agree” (Edd.), P Tebt 11. 30927 (A.D. 116-7) παρειλήφαμεν τὸ [βιβλίδιον, ‘we have received the account,” and P Strass I. 4555 (A.D. 312) παρελάβαμεν τὸ ἐνγεγραμμένον μέτρον τοῦ πυροῦ καὶ κριθῆς ὡς πρόκιται, ‘we received the registered amount of wheat and barley as agreed.” With Jn 145 Deissmann (LAE p. 166) compares an ancient epistolary formula: δόξα... - +. 0G... τὴν ψυχὴν ἡνίκα συμφέρει παραλαμβάνοντι. The form παρελάβοσαν in 2 Thess 3°N* AD* has received increasing attestation since Moulton’s note in Prodeg. p. 52, and for the intruded nasal in παραλήμψομαι (Jn 14%), see the exx. in Mayser G7. p. 194f. P Amh II. 3515 (B.c. 132) shows ἐπὶ τὴν παράλημψιν τῶν ἐκφορίων, ‘‘for the colléction of the rents”: cf. P Ryl IL. 83% (a.p. 138-161) π]ρὸς παράλημψτιν Kal] καταγωγὴν βιβλίων, ‘for the receiving and forwarding of the accounts.” For παραλημπτής see Preisigke Fachworier s.v.: the pis wanting in the ‘‘ badly written and ill-spelled ” receipt issued by ‘‘ the receivers of public clothing ”—ot . . . παραληπταὶ δημοσίο(υ) ἱματισμοῦ (P Ryl II. 189!—a.p. 128). + τῷ ω

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

παραλαμβάνω (paralambanō) — to take. παραλαμβάνω (Cretan dialect παλλαμβάνω [Refs 3rd c.BC+]future -λήψομαι, Ionic dialect -λάμψομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+]:—receive from another, especially of persons succeeding to an office, etc., [τὴν βασιληΐην] Hdt.[same place],[Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῖς παραλαμβάνουσι (i.e. τὴν βασιλείαν) the successors, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; νόμον ὄντα παραλαβόντες, opposed to θέντες, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of inherited rites or customs, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of persons succeeding by inheritance, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς πολλὴν οὐσίαν π. [Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to ἐπικτᾶσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἀράς inherit curses, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of officers, receive things as stated in an inventory from their predecessors, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: Astrology texts, take over, [χρονοκρατορίαν] [Refs 2nd c.AD+]: generally, receive, ἔρια παραλαβοῦσα ἱμάτιον ἀποδεῖξαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of cargo, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

2. take upon oneself, undertake, πρᾶγμά τι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ παραλαμβανόμενα undertakings, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; take to oneself, admit, employ, π. ἐν ταῖς μάχαις τὸν θυμόν [Refs 1st c.AD+] —passive, π. πρὸς τὴν σύστασιν τῆς ψυχῆς[Refs]

3. take in pledge, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; take by force or treachery, seize, οὐδὲν ἐδυνέατο π. τῆς ἐσόδου [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τὰ πράγματα get control of affairs, [Refs 1st c.AD+]:—in middle, lay hold of, ἄκρων τῶν χειρῶν [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

4. receive by hearing or report, ascertain, παρὰ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; receive by way of lesson, σοφίαν παρά τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be received, accepted, τὰ παρειλημμένα the received or traditionary doctrines, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

5. take, receive, or use as a substitute or equivalent, τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἀντὶ τοῦ νοῦ π. [Refs]:—passive, ὑμέτερον ἀντὶ τοῦ ὑμεῖς παρείληπται [Refs 1st c.BC+]

5. b Grammars and in Medicine texts, simply, use, employ, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; θλῖψιν, βοηθήματα, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—frequently in passive, to be found, used, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; π. ἐκ κοινοῦ, δεικτικῶς,[Refs]

5. c admit, ἡ ὅλη ὑπόθεσις τὸ ἓν εἶναι παρελάμβανεν [Refs 5th c.AD+]

6. take up, catch up, τὸ οὔνομα τοῦτο [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἐπὶ βραχύ give a résumé of, [Refs]

7. compare, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]

8. passive, to be derived, ἔκ τινος variant in [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

II. with accusative person, take to oneself, associate with oneself, as a wife or mistress, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; as an adopted son, [Refs]; as a partner, auxiliary, or ally,[Refs 5th c.BC+]; συμβούλους π. [Refs 4th c.BC+]; get control of, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μάρτυρας π. call in witnesses, [Refs 4th c.BC+]: c.infinitive, τὴν αἴσθησιν ὑπουργεῖν [Refs 4th c.AD+]

II.2. invite, ἐπὶ ξείνια [Refs 5th c.BC+]; παραληφθῆναι πρός τινα Parmenisc. cited in [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

II.3. receive, take over in succession, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.4. take prisoner, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]

II.5. of the dead, παραλημφθεὶς ὑπὸ θεῶν καταχθονίων [Refs]