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lambano

lambano {lam-ban'-o}
Greek: verb

Possible Definitions:
1) to take, i.e. to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it; to take up a thing to be carried; to take upon one's self
2) to take in order to carry away: without the notion of violence, i.e. to remove, take away
3) to take what is one's own, to take to one's self, to make one's own
3a) to claim, procure, for one's self; to associate with one's self as companion, attendant
3b) of that which when taken is not let go, to seize, to lay hold of, apprehend
3c) to take by craft (our catch, used of hunters, fisherman, etc.), to circumvent one by fraud
3d) to take to one's self, lay hold upon, take possession of, i.e. to appropriate to one's self
3e) catch at, reach after, strive to obtain
3f) to take a thing due, to collect, gather (tribute)
4) to take, i.e. to admit, receive; to receive what is offered; not to refuse or reject; to receive a person, give him access to one's self, i.e. to regard any one's power, rank, external circumstances, and on that account to do some injustice or neglect something
5) to take, to choose, select
6) to take beginning, to prove anything, to make a trial of, to experience
II) to receive (what is given), to gain, get, obtain, to get back

lambano {lam-ban'-o}

Greek: verb

a prolonged form of a primary verb, which is use only as an alternate in certain tenses;

Translated as:

receive (133 times)

take (106 times)

have (3 times)

catch (3 times)

not translated (1 time)

misc (17 times)

Total: 263 times

I) to take

Strong's Number 2983

TDNT - 4:5,495

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