Words the Bible translates as take
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 15 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- lambanōλαμβάνωto take or receive: to get something into your hands or into your possession, whether by reaching for it or by accepting what someone gives you
- laqaḥלָקַחto take: to lay hold of someone or something and bring it into your hand, your possession, or your keeping
- nasaנָשָׂאto lift or raise something up: to take it from where it rests and hold it higher
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- to carry or bear a load: to hold up what has been lifted and move it
- to bear guilt or its punishment: to carry the weight of a wrong
- to forgive: to lift guilt off a person so it no longer rests on them
- airōαἴρωto take something away, remove it, or carry it off
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- to lift something up off the ground or raise it higher
- to pick something up and carry it
- yarashיָרַשׁto take possession of land or property, often by driving out whoever held it before
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- to be stripped of what you own and fall into poverty
- krateōκρατέωto take hold of: lay hands on a person or thing and grasp it
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- to hold fast: keep a firm grip on something so as not to let it go
- to hold in one's power: keep something in a grip it cannot break free of
- sullambanōσυλλαμβάνωto help: to take hold alongside someone and share their work
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- to seize: to lay hold of and capture a person or a catch
- to conceive: to become pregnant with a child
- lakhadלָכַדto seize and take control of someone or something, by force or as if caught in a trap
- dechomaiδέχομαιto welcome a person: to take someone in and give them a willing, favorable reception
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- to accept something offered: to take a message, gift, or object to oneself willingly
- paralambanōπαραλαμβάνωto take someone or something to your side and bring them along with you
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- to receive a teaching or tradition handed down to you, taking it as your own
- apagōἀπάγωto lead or take away: to conduct a person or thing from one place to another, often under compulsion
- proslambanōπροσλαμβάνωto take a person or thing to oneself: to draw someone to your own side, take them along, or welcome them into your own company
- periagōπεριάγωto take/go aroundnot studied yet
- piazōπιάζωto get hold of someone or something so it cannot get away: to grip, seize, or catch
- qavalקָבַלto receive: to take into your hands, or onto yourself, what is handed over or set before you
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- to be set facing and matching each other, so that the two line up and can be joined
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