Word Summary
analambanō: to take up, raise
Original Word: ἀναλαμβάνωTransliteration: analambanō
Phonetic Spelling: (an-al-am-ban'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to take up, raise
Meaning: to take up, raise
Strong's Concordance
receive up, take in, take up.
From ana and lambano; to take up -- receive up, take (in, unto, up).
see GREEK ana
see GREEK lambano
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 353: ἀναλαμβάνωἀναλαμβάνω; 2 aorist
ἀνέλαβον; 1 aorist passive
ἀνελήφθην (
ἀνελήμφθην L T Tr WH; cf.
Winers Grammar, p. 48 (
Buttmann, 62 (54);
Veitch, (under the word
λαμβάνω); see
λαμβάνω, and under the word, M,
μ')); (from
Herodotus down);
1. to take up, raise: εἰς τόν οὐρανόν, Mark 16:19; Acts 1:11; Acts 10:16 (the Sept. 2 Kings 2:11); without case, Acts 1:2, 22; 1 Timothy 3:16 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 413 (385)) (Sir. 48:9).
2. to take up (a thing in order to carry or use it): Acts 7:43; Ephesians 6:13, 16. to take to oneself: τινα, in order to conduct him, Acts 23:31; or as a companion, 2 Timothy 4:11; or in Acts 20:13f, to take up namely, into the ship.