λῆμψις
lēmpsis · G3028 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to receive, receiving, to accept
To receive or accept an object or benefit for which the initiative rests with the giver, but the focus of attention in the transfer is upon the receiver
ExamplesPhilippians 4:15 You yourselves also know, Philippians, that at the first preaching of the gospel, after I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone;
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- λόγοςword, saying, message 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Contrasting words 1 word
- δόσις dósis · G1394 · to give, giving, gift
- The act of giving as the opposite of the act of receiving; these are complementary actions representing opposite sides of a transaction
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To receive, receiving, to accept57.125
- λῆμψις names the act of receiving. Philippians 4:15 states that at the first preaching of the gospel, “no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone,” the λήμψεως naming this mutual exchange of giving and receiving Paul shared uniquely with the Philippians.
Word family 49 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (L T Tr WH λῆμψις, see Mu), λήψεως, ἡ (λαμβάνω, λήψομαι) (from Sophocles and Thucydides…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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