ἀπολαμβάνω

ἀπολαμβάνω — apolambánō

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.