greek #1949 - ἐπιλαμβάνομαι epilambanomai (to lay hold of)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance catch, lay hold on. Middle voice from epi and lambano; to seize (for help, injury, attainment, or any other purpose; literally or figuratively) -- catch, lay hold (up-)on, take (by, hold of, on). see GREEK epi see GREEK lambano Thayer's Greek LexiconStrong's 1949: ἐπιλαμβάνωἐπιλαμβάνω; 2 aorist middle ἐπελαβόμην; to take in addition (cf. ἐπί, D. 4), to take, lay hold of, take possession of, overtake, attain to. In the Bible only in the middle; the Sept. for אָחַז and הֶחֱזִיק;a. properly, to lay hold of or to seize upon anything with the hands (German sichanetwasanhalten): τῶνἀφλαστωννηός, Herodotus 6, 114; hence, universally, to take hold of, lag hold of: with the genitive of person, Matthew 14:31; Luke 9:47. (Tr WH accusative); (Luke 23:26 R G); Acts 17:19; Acts 21:30, 33; with the accusative of person, Luke 23:26 L T Tr WH, but in opposition see Meyer; for where the participle ἐπιλαβόμενος is in this sense joined with an accusative, the accusative, by the σχῆμαἀπόκοίνου, depends also upon the accompanying finite verb (cf. Buttmann, § 132, 9; (so Winer's Grammar, (edited by Lünem.) 202 (190))): Acts 9:27; Acts 16:19; Acts 18:17, cf. Luke 14:4. with the genitive of a thing: τῆςχειρόςτίνος, Mark 8:23; Acts 23:19; of a leader, and thus metaphorically, of God, Hebrews 8:9 (cf. Winers Grammar, 571 (531); Buttmann, 316 (271)); with the genitive of a person and of a thing: ἐπιλαμβάνειντίνοςλόγου, ῤήματος, to take anyone in his speech, i. e. to lay hold of something said by him which can be turned against him, Luke 20:20 (Tr λόγον), 26 (WH Tr marginal reading τοῦ for αὐτοῦ); ἐπιλαμβάνειντῆςαἰωνίου (others, ὄντως) ζωῆς, to seize upon, lay hold of, i. e. to struggle to obtain eternal life, 1 Timothy 6:12, 19 (cf. Winers Grammar, 312 (293)). b. by a metaphor drawn from laying hold of another to rescue him from peril, to help, to succor (cf. German sicheinesannehmen): τίνος, Hebrews 2:16; in this sense used besides only in Sir. 4:11 and Schol. ad Aeschylus Pers. 739. In Appian. bel. civ. 4, 96 the active is thus used with the dative: ἡμῖντόδαιμόνιονἐπιλαμβανει. Englishman's Concordance (References)Strong's Greek: 1949. ἐπιλαμβάνομαι (epilambanomai) — 19 OccurrencesMatthew 14:31 - V-AIM-3S Mark 8:23 - V-APM-NMS Luke 9:47 - V-APM-NMS Luke 14:4 - V-APM-NMS Luke 20:20 - V-ASM-3P Luke 20:26 - V-ANM Luke 23:26 - V-APM-NMP Acts 9:27 - V-APM-NMS Acts 16:19 - V-APM-NMP Acts 17:19 - V-APM-NMP Acts 18:17 - V-APM-NMP Acts 21:30 - V-APM-NMP Acts 21:33 - V-AIM-3S Acts 23:19 - V-APM-NMS 1 Timothy 6:12 - V-AMM-2S 1 Timothy 6:19 - V-ASM-3P Hebrews 2:16 - V-PIM/P-3S Hebrews 2:16 - V-PIM/P-3S Hebrews 8:9 - V-APM-GMS |