Strong's #142: airo (pronounced ah'-ee-ro)
a primary root; to lift up; by implication, to take up or away; figuratively, to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind), specially, to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Hebraism (compare 5375) to expiate sin:--away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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airō
1) to raise up, elevate, lift up
1a) to raise from the ground, take up: stones
1b) to raise upwards, elevate, lift up: the hand
1c) to draw up: a fish
2) to take upon one' s self and carry what has been raised up, to bear
3) to bear away what has been raised, carry off
3a) to move from its place
3b) to take off or away what is attached to anything
3c) to remove
3d) to carry off, carry away with one
3e) to appropriate what is taken
3f) to take away from another what is his or what is committed to him, to take by force
3g) to take and apply to any use
3h) to take from among the living, either by a natural death, or by violence
3i) cause to cease
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primary root
Citing in TDNT: 1:185, 28
Usage:
This word is used 106 times:
1 Corinthians 6:15: "the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make"
Ephesians 4:31: "clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all"
Colossians 2:14: "contrary to us, and took it out of the way,"
1 John 3:5: "he was manifested to take away our sins; and in"
Revelation 10:5: "upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,"
Revelation 18:21: "a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone,"
