King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G482
Transliteration: antilambanomai
Phonetic Spelling: (an-tee-lam-ban'-om-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to take instead of, take hold of
Meaning: to take instead of, take hold of
ἀντιλαμβάνω: middle (present ἀντιλαμβάνομαι); 2 aorist ἀντελαβόμην; to take in turn or in return, to receive one thing for another given, to receive instead of; in middle, frequent in Attic prose writings,
Word Summary
antilambanomai: to take instead of, take hold of
Original Word: ἀντιλαμβάνομαιTransliteration: antilambanomai
Phonetic Spelling: (an-tee-lam-ban'-om-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to take instead of, take hold of
Meaning: to take instead of, take hold of
Strong's Concordance
help, partake, support. From anti and the middle voice of lambano; to take hold of in turn, i.e. Succor; also to participate -- help, partaker, support.
see GREEK anti
see GREEK lambano
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 482: ἀντιλαμβάνωἀντιλαμβάνω: middle (present ἀντιλαμβάνομαι); 2 aorist ἀντελαβόμην; to take in turn or in return, to receive one thing for another given, to receive instead of; in middle, frequent in Attic prose writings,
1. to lay hold of, hold fast to, anything: τίνος.
2. to take a person or thing in order as it were to be held, to take to, embrace; with a genitive of the person, to help, succor: Luke 1:54; Acts 20:35 (Diodorus 11, 13; Dio Cassius, 40, 27; 46, 45; often in the Sept.) with a genitive of the thing, to be a partaker, partake of: τῆς εὐεργεσίας of the benefit of the services rendered by the slaves, 1 Timothy 6:2; cf. De Wette at the passage (μήτε ἐσθίων πλειόνων ἡδονῶν ἀντιλήψεται, Porphyry, de abstin. 1, 46; (cf. Eusebius, h. e. 4, 15, 37 and examples in Field, Otium Norv. pars. iii. at the passage cited)) (Compare: συναντιλαμβάνομαι.)