Quick Definition
I get back, receive back
Strong's Definition
to receive (specially, in full, or as a host); also to take aside
Derivation: from G575 (ἀπό) and G2983 (λαμβάνω);
KJV Usage: receive, take
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀπολαμβάνω; future ἀπολήψομαι (Col_3:24; L T Tr WH ἀπολήμψεσθε; see λαμβάνω); 2 aorist ἀπέλαβον; 2 aorist middle ἀπελαβομην; from Herodotus down;
1. to receive (from another, ἀπό (cf. Meyer on Gal_4:5; Ellicott ibid. and Winers De verb. comp. etc. as below)) what is due or promised (cf. ἀποδίδωμι, 2): τήν υἱοθεσίαν, the adoption promised to believers, Gal_4:5; τά 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), Luk_16:25. Hence,
2. to take again or back, to recover: Luk_6:34 (T Tr text WH λαβεῖν); Luk_15:27; and to receive by way of retribution: Luk_18:30 (L text Tr marginal reading WH text λάβῃ); ; Rom_1:27; 2Jn_1:8; Col_3:24.
3. to take from others, take apart or aside; middle τινα, to take a person with one aside out of the view of others: with the addition of ἀπό τοῦ ὄχλου κατ' ἰδίαν in Mar_7:33 (Josephus, b. j. 2, 7, 2; and in the Act., 2Ma_6:21; ὑστασπεα ἀπολαβών μουνον, Herodotus 1, 209; Aristophanes ran. 78; ἰδίᾳ ἕνα τῶν τριῶν ἀπολαβών, Appendix,
b. 104:5, 40).
4. to receive anyone hospitably: 3Jn_1:8, where L T Tr WH have restored ὑπολαμβάνειν.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀπολαμβάνω apolambanō 10x
to receive what is due, sought, or needed, Luk_23:41 ; Rom_1:27 ; Gal_4:5 ; Col_3:24 ; 2Jn_1:8 ;
to receive in full, Luk_16:25 ;
to receive back, recover, Luk_6:34 ; Luk_15:27 ; Luk_18:30 ;
mid. to take aside, lead away, Mar_7:33 get back; receive; (be) repaid.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀπο -λαμβάνω ,
[in LXX : Num_34:14 ( H3947 ( Deu_25:5 A, Isa_5:17 , 2Ma_4:46 ; 2Ma_6:21 ; 2Ma_8:6 , 4Ma_18:23 * ;]
1. to receive from another; absol. , to receive as one's due: Luk_16:25 ; Luk_18:30 ( v . l . λάβῃ ) Luk_23:41 , Rom_1:27 , Gal_4:5 , Col_3:24 , 2Jn_1:8 .
2. to receive back: Luk_6:34 ; Luk_15:27 .
3. to take apart or aside: Mar_7:33 ( cf. use in Papyri of the recluses of the Serapeum; MM , s.v. ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀπολαμβάνω [page 65]
The use of ἀπολαβέσθαι in Mar_7:33 = draw aside, separate, is well illustrated by P Lond 42 .12 ff. (B.C. 168) (= I. p. 30, Selections , p. 10) ἐπὶ δὲ τῶι μὴ παραγίνεσθαί σε [πάντω ]ν τῶν ἐκεῖ ἀπειλημμένων παραγεγο [νό ]των ἀηδίζομαι , but that you did not return when all those who were shut up with you arrived distresses me with reference to the recluses of the Serapeum. So P Vat A .10 (B.C. 168) (= Witkowski .2 , p. 65) ἠβουλόμην δὲ καὶ σὲ παραγεγονέναι εἰς τὴν πόλ [ι ]ν , καθάπερ . . . οἱ ἄλλοι οἱ ἀπειλη [μμένοι ] π [ά ]ντες . The word is of course very common. It is found in the sense of receive, welcome (as in the TR of 3Jn_1:8 ) in P Lips I. 110 .6 (iii/iv A.D.) εὐ̣χ̣ο̣μενος ὅπως ὁλοκληροῦσάν σε καὶ ὑγιαίνουσαν ἀπολάβω (cf. Luk_15:27 ), and P Iand 13 .17 ἵνα μετὰ χαρᾶς σε ἀπολάβωμεν . The full force of the ἀπό as pointing to a promise made centuries before is probably to be retained in Gal_4:5 (see F. B. West-cott, St Paul and Justification , p. 75). It is the ordinary correlative of ἀποδίδωμι . For the simple sense of receiving what is due, cf. P Tor I. 1 viii. 28 (B.C. 116) (= Chrest. II. p. 38) τὴν τιμὴν ἀπολαβεῖν .
[Supplemental from 1930 edition]
P Oxy XIV. 1680 .5 (iii/iv), note.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀπολαμβάνω "to take or receive from" another, παρά τινος Thuc. :— "to receive what is one's due", μισθόν Hdt. , Xen. ; ἀπ. ὅρκους "to accept" oaths tendered, Dem. c. gen. "to take of, take part of" a thing, Thuc. "to hear or learn", Lat. accipio, Plat. "to take back, get back, regain, recover", τὴν τυραννίδα Hdt. "to have" an account "rendered one", ἀπ. λόγον Aeschin. "to take apart or aside", ἀπ. τινὰ μοῦνον Hdt. ; ἀπολαβὼν σκόπει consider it "separately", Plat. "to cut off, intercept, arrest", Hdt. ; ἀπ. τείχει "to intercept" by a wall, Thuc. :—Pass. "to be arrested or stopped" by contrary winds, Hdt.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀπο-λαμβάνω
[in LXX: Num.34:14 (לָקַח (Deu.25:5 A, Isa.5:17, 2Ma.4:46 2Mac 6:21 2Mac 8:6, 4Ma.18:23 * ;]
__1. to receive from another; absol., to receive as one's due: Luk.16:25 18:30 (seel. λάβῃ) Luk.23:41, Rom.1:27, Gal.4:5, Col.3:24, 2Jn.8.
__2. to receive back: Luk.6:34 15:27.
__3. to take apart or aside: Mrk.7:33 (cf. use in π. of the recluses of the Serapeum; MM, see word).†
(AS)
📖 In-Depth Word Study
Receive (back) (618) apolambano
You will receive (618) (apolambano from apo = from + lambáno = to receive, take) means to receive fully, receive in full what is one’s due, get back, recover fully what is promised or even to receive by way of retribution. This receipt can thus be good or bad news, depending upon how we live our Christian lives. But to the first-century Christian slave this was largely good news, because under Roman law a slave could inherit nothing.
Apolambano - (1) Receive in full what is due (Lk 16:25) (2) Receive back or obtain again (money - Lk 6:34, 15:27), reward. (3) To take to oneself as in Mk 7:33. Used twice in the non-apocryphal Septuagint - Nu 34:1, Isa 5:17.
Apolambano - 10x in 10v in NAS - receive(3), receive back(1), received(1), received...back(1), receiving(2), took...aside(1).
Mark 7:33 Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put His fingers into his ears, and after spitting, He touched his tongue with the saliva;
Luke 6:34 "If you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners in order to receive back the same amount.
Luke 15:27 "And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound.'
Luke 16:25 "But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.
Luke 18:30 who will not receive many times as much at this time and in the age to come, eternal life."
Luke 23:41 "And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong."
Romans 1:27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
Galatians 4:5 so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
Colossians 3:24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.
2 John 1:8 Watch (present imperative) yourselves, that (hina - so that - expresses purpose - always pause and ponder - "What is the purpose?" "What is necessary to fulfill this purpose?") you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. (Woe! The implication is that we may not receive a full reward! This is not loss of salvation but loss of rewards! May God grant us all to be diligent to guard our heart Pr 4:23-note, by the power of the Spirit for the glory of the Lamb. Amen)
It is interesting that apolambano also conveys the thought of receiving back something which one had previously possessed. What did we possess at one time that we lost? In Hebrews 2:8 which in context most likely refers to mankind, not to Jesus we read...
But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him. (mankind)
Adam lost the right to rule planet earth to the squatter and deceiver Satan, but the day is coming when our Kinsman-Redeemer, our Blood Avenger will avenge the "murder" of mankind by Satan (Jn 8:44) and redeem the land from the curse and we will rule and reign with Him. That future day would certainly be one aspect of what we "will receive back" from the Lord something we originally were given dominion over.
THE REWARD OF THE INHERITANCE: ten antapodosin tes kleronomias:
The reward is called “the inheritance.”
Eadie - The inheritance is heavenly glory, 1 Peter 1:4, and that is their prospective blessing. They had no inheritance on earth, nothing which they could call their own; they could not even realize property in themselves-but an inheritance rich and glorious awaited them. In the hope of it-and the enjoyment of it could not be very distant-they were to work, and suffer and wait, and in the possession of it they would find immediate and ample compensation. [Ephesians 6:8-note]
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