ὑπολαμβάνω
hypolambánō · G5274 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to make ascend, to take up
To cause to ascend
ExamplesActs 1:9 And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were watching, and a cloud took Him up, out of their sight.
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to reply to respond
To respond to what has been said (in the NT restricted to responses to questions)
ExamplesLuke 10:30 Jesus replied and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he encountered robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.
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to help
To assist in supplying what may be needed
Examples3 John 1:8 Therefore we ought to support such people, so that we may prove to be fellow workers with the truth.
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to suppose, to presume, to assume, to imagine, to believe, to think
To regard something as presumably true, but without particular certainty
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
5 occurrences in 5 groups
- ἸησοῦςJesus 1
- νεφέληcloud 1
- σύyou 1
- Not stated: I 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
4 occurrences in 5 groups
- καταβαίνωto come down, to go down 1
- περιπίπτωto run into 1
- τοιοῦτοςsuch 1
- χαρίζομαιto give freely, to forgive 1
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀπόfrom+ ὀφθαλμόςeye 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἔπωto say 1
- ὀφείλωought, to owe 1
- ἀποκρίνομαιto answer 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- עָנָה ʻânâh · H6030 · to answer, to respond, to speak up
- Hebrew עָנָה emphasizes the vocal response or answer itself (particularly in legal/liturgical contexts), while Greek ὑπολαμβάνω focuses on the mental act of taking up or assuming a position in discourse (often implying presumption or continuation of thought).
Semantic domains 4 entries
- To make ascend, to take up15.102
- Acts 1:9 recounts that as the disciples watched, “a cloud took Him up, out of their sight.”
- To suppose, to presume, to assume, to imagine, to believe, to think31.29
- Acts 2:15 has Peter reject the charge that the disciples are drunk, “as you assume”.
- To reply to respond33.187
- Luke 10:30 introduces the parable of the good Samaritan: “Jesus replied and said...”
- To help35.1
- 3 John 1:8 urges believers to support such workers, “so that we may prove to be fellow workers with the truth.”
Word family 49 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 2 aorist ὑπέλαβον; 1. "to take up (literally, under (cf. ὑπό, III. 1)) in order to raise,…
1. "to take up (literally, under (cf. ὑπό, III. 1)) in order to raise, to bear on high (Herodotus 1, 24); to take up and carry away" (ὥσπερ νῆα ἄνεμοι ὑπολαβόντες, Stobaeus, serm. 6, p. 79, 17): τινα, Acts 1:9 (see ὀφθαλμός, middle).
2. to receive hospitably, welcome: τινα, 3 Jn 1:8 L T Tr WH (Xenophon, an. 1, 1, 7).
3. to take up i. e. follow in speech, in order either to reply to or controvert or supplement what another has said (very often so in secular authors from Herodotus down): ὑπολαβών εἶπεν, Lk 10:30 (for עָנָה, Job 2:4; Job 4:1; Job 6:1; Job 9:1; Job 11:1; Job 12:1, etc.).
4. to take up in the mind, i. e. to assume, suppose: Acts 2:15; followed by ὅτι (namely, πλεῖον ἀγαπήσει), Lk 7:43 (Job 25:3; Tobit 6:18; Wis. 17:2; 3Macc. 3:8; 4 Macc. 5:17 (18) etc.,and often in secular authors from Xenophon, and Plato down).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 entries
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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