παραλαμβάνω

future παραλήψομαι, in L T Tr WH παραλήμψομαι (Jn 14:3; see Mu); 2 aorist παρέλαβον, 3 person plural παρελάβοσαν (2 Thess 3:6 G T L marginal reading Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading; cf. δολιόω (yet see WH's Appendix, p. 165)); passive, present παραλαμβάνομαι; 1 future παραληφθήσομαι, in L T Tr WH παραλημφθήσομαι (see Mu; Lk 17:34-36); from Herodotus down; the Sept. for לָקַח;
1. to take to (cf. παρά, IV. 1), to take with oneself, to join to oneself: τινα, an associate, a companion, Mt 17:1; Mt 26:37; Mk 4:36; Mk 5:40; Mk 9:2; Mk 10:32; Lk 9:10, Lk 9:28; Lk 11:26; Lk 18:31; Acts 15:39; in the passive, Mt 24:40, Mt 24:41; Lk 17:34-36; one to be led off as a prisoner, Jn 19:16; Acts 23:18; to take with one in order to carry away, Mt 2:13f, 20f; τινα μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ, Mt 12:45; Mt 18:16; Mk 14:33; παραλαμβάνειν γυναῖκα, to take one's betrothed to his home, Mt 1:20, Mt 1:24; τινα followed by εἰς with an accusative of place, to take (and bring, cf. Winer's Grammar, § 66, 2 d.) one with one into a place, Mt 4:5, Mt 4:8; Mt 27:27; τινα κατ' ἰδίαν, Mt 20:17; middle with πρός ἐμαυτόν, to my companionship, where I myself dwell, Jn 14:3. The participle is prefixed to other active verbs to describe the action more in detail, Acts 16:33; Acts 21:24, Acts 21:26, Acts 21:32 (here L WH marginal reading λαβών). Metaphorically, equivalent to "to accept or acknowledge one to be such as he professes to be; not to reject, not to withhold obedience": τινα, Jn 1:11.
2. to receive something transmitted;
a. properly: παραλαμβάνειν διακονίαν, an office to be discharged, Col 4:17; βασιλείαν, Heb 12:28 (so for the Chaldean קַבֵּל in Dan 5:31; Dan 7:18, Theod.; Herodotus 2, 120; (Josephus, contra Apion 1, 20, 5 (where see Müller)); τήν ἀρχήν, Plato, Polybius, Plutarch).
b. to receive with the mind; by oral transmission: τί followed by ἀπό with a genitive of the author from whom the tradition proceeds, 1 Cor 11:23 (on which cf. Paret in the Jahrbb. f. deutsche Theol. for 1858, Bd. iii., p. 48ff; (see references in ἀπό, II. 2 d. aa.)); by the narration of others, by the instruction of teachers (used of disciples): (τόν Χριστόν Ἰησοῦν τόν κύριον, Col 2:6); τί, 1 Cor 15:1, 1 Cor 15:3; Gal 1:9; Phm 4:9; (τί followed by an infinitive, Mk 7:4); τί παρά τίνος (see references under the word παρά, the passage cited), Gal 1:12; 1 Thess 2:13; 2 Thess 3:6; παρά τίνος, καθώς... τό πῶς δεῖ etc. 1 Thess 4:1, (σοφίαν παρά τίνος, Plato, Lach., p. 197 d.; Euthyd., p. 304 c.). (Compare: συμπαραλαμβάνω.)