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Strong's #5274: hupolambano (pronounced hoop-ol-am-ban'-o)

from 5259 and 2983; to take from below, i.e. carry upward; figuratively, to take up, i.e. continue a discourse or topic; mentally, to assume (presume):--answer, receive, suppose.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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hupolambanō

1) to take up in order to raise, to bear on high

1a) to take up and carry away

2) to receive hospitably, welcome

3) to take up

3a) follow in speech, in order either to reply to or controvert or supplement what another has said

4) to take up in the mind

4a) to assume, suppose

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G5259 and G2983

Citing in TDNT: 4:15, 495




Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Luke 7:43: "Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most."
Luke 10:30: "And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from"
Acts 1:9: "he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight."
Acts 2:15: "drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour"









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