Strong's #2983: lambano (pronounced lam-ban'-o)
a prolonged form of a primary verb, which is use only as an alternate in certain tenses; to take (in very many applications, literally and figuratively (properly objective or active, to get hold of; whereas 1209 is rather subjective or passive, to have offered to one; while 138 is more violent, to seize or remove)):--accept, + be amazed, assay, attain, bring, X when I call, catch, come on (X unto), + forget, have, hold, obtain, receive (X after), take (away, up).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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lambanō
1) to take
1a) to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it
1a1) to take up a thing to be carried
1a2) to take upon one' s self
1b) to take in order to carry away
1b1) without the notion of violence, i,e to remove, take away
1c) to take what is one' s own, to take to one' s self, to make one' s own
1c1) to claim, procure, for one' s self
1c1a) to associate with one' s self as companion, attendant
1c2) of that which when taken is not let go, to seize, to lay hold of, apprehend
1c3) to take by craft (our catch, used of hunters, fisherman, etc.), to circumvent one by fraud
1c4) to take to one' s self, lay hold upon, take possession of, i.e. to appropriate to one' s self
1c5) catch at, reach after, strive to obtain
1c6) to take a thing due, to collect, gather (tribute)
1d) to take
1d1) to admit, receive
1d2) to receive what is offered
1d3) not to refuse or reject
1d4) to receive a person, give him access to one' s self
1d4a) to regard any one' s power, rank, external circumstances, and on that account to do some injustice or neglect something
1e) to take, to choose, select
1f) to take beginning, to Proverbs anything, to make a trial of, to experience
2) to receive (what is given), to gain, get, obtain, to get back
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a prolonged form of a primary verb, which is use only as an alternate in certain tenses
Usage:
This word is used 264 times:
Revelation 6:4: "to him that sat thereon to take peace from the"
Revelation 8:5: "And the angel took the censer, and filled"
Revelation 10:8: "and said, Go and take the little book which is open in"
Revelation 10:9: "And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and"
Revelation 10:10: "And I took the little book out of the angel's hand,"
Revelation 11:17: "God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power,"
Revelation 14:9: "his image, and receive his mark in his forehead,"
Revelation 14:11: "and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark"
Revelation 17:12: "ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive"
Revelation 17:12: "have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings"
Revelation 18:4: "of her sins, and that ye receive not of her"
Revelation 19:20: "with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast,"
Revelation 20:4: "his image, neither had received his mark upon their"
Revelation 22:17: "And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."
