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Lexical Definition
Strong's Greek G2983
while is more violent, to seize or remove))
KJV usage: :--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).
Etymology: 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 is rather subjective or passive, to have offered to one;
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
to take, take up, take in the hand, Mt. 10:38; 13:31, 33; to take on one’s self, sustain, Mt. 8:17; to take, seize, seize upon, Mt. 5:40; 21:34; Lk. 5:26; 1 Cor. 10:13; to catch, Lk. 5:5; 2 Cor. 12:16; to assume, put on, Phil. 2:7; to make a rightful or successful assumption of, Jn. 3:27; to conceive, Acts 28:15; to take by way of provision, Mt. 16:5; to get, get together, Mt. 16:9; to receive as payment, Mt. 17:24; Heb. 7:8; to take to wife, Mk. 12:19; to admit, give reception to, Jn. 6:21; 2 Jn. 10; met. to give mental reception to, Jn. 3:11; to be simply recipient of, to receive, Mt. 7:8; Jn. 7:23, 39; 19:30; Acts 10:43; in NT λαμβάνειν πεῖραν, to make encounter of a matter of difficulty or trial, Heb. 11:29, 36; λαμβάνειν ἀρχήν, to begin, Heb. 2:3; λαμβάνειν συμβούλιον, to take counsel…