ἀναιρέω

ἀναιρέω — anairéō

ἀναιρέω, (ῶ; future ἀνελῶ, 2Th 2:8 (L T Tr WH text cf. Jdt 7:13; Dionysius Halicarnassus 11, 18; Diodorus Siculus 2, 25; cf. Winers Grammar, 82 (78); (Buttmann, 53 (47); Veitch, under the word αἱρέω, "perhaps late έ῾λω)), for the usual ἀναιρήσω; 2 aorist ἀνεῖλον; 2 aorist middle ἀνειλόμην (but ἀνείλατο Act 7:21, ἀνεῖλαν Act 10:39, ἀνείλατε Act 2:23, in G L T Tr WH, after the Alex. form, cf. Winers Grammar, 73f (71f); Buttmann, 39 (34)f (see αἱρέω); passive, present ἀναιροῦμαι; 1 aorist ἀνῃρέθην;

1. to take up, to lift up (from the ground); middle to take up for myself as value, to own (an exposed infant): Act 7:21; (so ἀναίρεσθαι, Aristophanes nub. 531; Epictetus diss. 1, 23, 7; (Plutarch, Anton. 36, 3; fortuna Rom 8:1-39; fratern. am. 18, etc.)).

2. to take away, abolish;

a. ordinances, established customs (to abrogate): Heb 10:9 :

b. a man, to put not of the way, slay, kill, (often so in the Sept. and Greek writings from (Herodotus 4, 66) Thucydides down): Mat 2:16; Luk 22:2; Luk 23:32; Act 2:23; Act 5:33; Act 5:36; Act 7:28; Act 9:23; Act 9:29; Act 10:39; Act 12:2; Act 13:28; Act 22:20; Act 23:15; Act 23:21; Act 23:27; Act 25:3; Act 26:10; 2Th 2:8 L T Tr WH text; ἑαυτόν, to kill oneself, Act 16:27.