ἐπαίρω

ἐπαίρω — epaírō

ἐπαίρω; 1 aorist ἐπῆρα, participle ἐπάρας, imperative 2 person plural ἐπάρατε, infinitive ἐπᾶραι; perfect ἐπηρκα (Joh 13:18 Tdf.); (passive and middle, present ἐπαίρομαι); 1 aorist passive ἐπηρθην; (on the omission of the iota subscript, see αἴρω at the beginning); from Herodotus down; the Sept. chiefly for נָשָׂא, also for הֵרִים; to lift up, raise up, raise on high: τόν ἀρτέμονα, to hoist up, Act 27:40 (τά ἱστία, Plutarch, mor., p. 870 (de Herod. malign. § 39)); τάς χεῖρας, in offering prayer, 1Ti 2:8 (Neh 8:6; Psa 133:2 ); in blessing, Luk 24:50 (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 65, 4 c.) (Lev 9:22 (yet here ἐξάρας); Sir 50:20); τάς κεφαλάς, of the timid and sorrowful recovering spirit, Luk 21:28 (so αὐχένα, Philo de secular § 20); τούς ὀφθαλμούς, to look up, Mat 17:8; Luk 16:23; Joh 4:35; Joh 6:5; εἰς τινα, Luk 6:20; εἰς τόν οὐρανόν, Luk 18:13; Joh 17:1; τήν φωνήν, Luk 11:27; Act 2:14; Act 14:11; Act 22:22 (Demosthenes 449, 13; the Sept. Jdg 2:4; Jdg 9:7; 2Sa 13:36); τήν πτέρναν ἐπί τινα, to lift the heel against one (see πτέρνα), Joh 13:18. Passive ἐπήρθη, was taken up (of Christ, taken up into heaven), Act 1:9; reflexively and metaphorically, to be lifted up with pride, to exalt oneself: 2Co 11:20 (Jer 13:15; Psa 46:10; Sir 11:4 Sir 35:1 (Sir 32:1); 1Ma 1:3 1Ma 2:63; Aristophanes nub. 810; Thucydides 4, 18; Aeschines 87, 24; with the dative of the thing of which one is proud, Pro 3:5; Zep 1:11; Herodotus 9, 49; Thucydides 1, 120; Xenophon, Cyril 8, 5, 24); — on 2Co 10:5 see ὕψωμα.