G2983Greekἔlaben
ἔλαβεν
while g0138 is more violent, to seize or remove))
258
Total Occurrences
21
Books
0
Old Testament
258
New Testament
Detailed Definition
- 1to take
- 2to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it
- 3to take in order to carry away
- 4to receive (what is given), to gain, get, obtain, to get back
- 5to take what is one's own, to take to one's self, to make one's own
- 6to take
- 7to take, to choose, select
- 8to take beginning, to prove anything, to make a trial of, to experience
Etymology & Derivation
a prolonged form of a primary verb, which is use only as an alternate in certain tenses; to take (in very many applications, literally and figuratively (properly objective or active, to get hold of; whereas g1209 is rather subjective or passive, to have offered to one