παραλαμβάνω

παραλαμβάνω — paralambánō

παραλαμβάνω; future παραλήψομαι, in L T Tr WH παραλήμψομαι (Joh 14:3; see Mu); 2 aorist παρέλαβον, 3 person plural παρελάβοσαν (2Th 3:6 G T L marginal reading Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading; cf. δολιόω (yet see WH's Appendix, p. 165)); passive, present παραλαμβάνομαι; 1 future παραληφθήσομαι, in L T Tr WH παραλημφθήσομαι (see Mu; Luk 17:34-36); from Herodotus down; the Sept. for לָקַח;

1. to take to (cf. παρά, IV. 1), to take with oneself, to join to oneself: τινα, an associate, a companion, Mat 17:1; Mat 26:37; Mar 4:36; Mar 5:40; Mar 9:2; Mar 10:32; Luk 9:10; Luk 9:28; Luk 11:26; Luk 18:31; Act 15:39; in the passive, Mat 24:40-41; Luk 17:34-36; one to be led off as a prisoner, Joh 19:16; Act 23:18; to take with one in order to carry away, Matthew 2:13f, 20f; τινα μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ, Mat 12:45; Mat 18:16; Mar 14:33; παραλαμβάνειν γυναῖκα, to take one's betrothed to his home, Mat 1:20; Mat 1:24; τινα followed by εἰς with an accusative of place, to take (and bring, cf. Winer's Grammar, § 66, 2 d.) one with one into a place, Mat 4:5; Mat 4:8; Mat 27:27; τινα κατ' ἰδίαν, Mat 20:17; middle with πρός ἐμαυτόν, to my companionship, where I myself dwell, Joh 14:3. The participle is prefixed to other active verbs to describe the action more in detail, Act 16:33; Act 21:24; Act 21:26; Act 21:32 (here L WH marginal reading λαβών). Metaphorically, equivalent to "to accept or acknowledge one to be such as he professes to be; not to reject, not to withhold obedience": τινα, Joh 1:11.

2. to receive something transmitted;

a. properly: παραλαμβάνειν διακονίαν, an office to be discharged, Col 4:17; βασιλείαν, Heb 12:28 (so for the Chaldean קַבֵּל in Dan 5:31; Dan 7:18, Theod.; Herodotus 2, 120; (Josephus, contra Apion 1, 20, 5 (where see Müller)); τήν ἀρχήν, Plato, Polybius, Plutarch).

b. to receive with the mind; by oral transmission: τί followed by ἀπό with a genitive of the author from whom the tradition proceeds, 1Co 11:23 (on which cf. Paret in the Jahrbb. f. deutsche Theol. for 1858, Bd. iii., p. 48ff; (see references in ἀπό, II. 2 d. aa.)); by the narration of others, by the instruction of teachers (used of disciples): (τόν Χριστόν Ἰησοῦν τόν κύριον, Col 2:6); τί, 1Co 15:1; 1Co 15:3; Gal 1:9; Php 4:9; (τί followed by an infinitive, Mar 7:4); τί παρά τίνος (see references under the word παρά, the passage cited), Gal 1:12; 1Th 2:13; 2Th 3:6; παρά τίνος, καθώς... τό πῶς δεῖ etc. 1Th 4:1, (σοφίαν παρά τίνος, Plato, Lach., p. 197 d.; Euthyd., p. 304 c.). (Compare: συμπαραλαμβάνω.)