Greek Strong's Lexicon

G2983

Language: 🇧🇶 Papiamentu 🇬🇧 English

Lemma: λαμβάνω

Transliteration: lam-ban'-o

Definition: 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 δέχομαι is rather subjective or passive, to have offered to one; while αἱρέομαι is more violent, to seize or remove))

KJV Definition: 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)

Verse usage

  • Mateo 21:22 NASB
    "And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
  • Mateo 21:34 NASB
    "When the harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his produce.
  • Mateo 21:35 NASB
    "The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.
  • Mateo 21:39 NASB
    "They took him, and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
  • Mateo 23:14 NASB
    ["Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation].
  • Mateo 25:1 NASB
    "Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
  • Mateo 25:3 NASB
    "For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,
  • Mateo 25:4 NASB
    but the prudent took oil in flasks along with their lamps.
  • Mateo 25:16 NASB
    "Immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and gained five more talents.
  • Mateo 25:18 NASB
    "But he who received the one [talent] went away, and dug [a hole] in the ground and hid his master's money.
  • Mateo 25:20 NASB
    "The one who had received the five talents came up and brought five more talents, saying, 'Master, you entrusted five talents to me. See, I have gained five more talents.'
  • Mateo 25:24 NASB
    "And the one also who had received the one talent came up and said, 'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no [seed].
  • Mateo 26:26 NASB
    While they were eating, Jesus took [some] bread, and after a blessing, He broke [it] and gave [it] to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is My body."
  • Mateo 26:27 NASB
    And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave [it] to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you;
  • Mateo 27:1 NASB
    Now when morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus to put Him to death;
  • Mateo 27:6 NASB
    The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, "It is not lawful to put them into the temple treasury, since it is the price of blood."
  • Mateo 27:7 NASB
    And they conferred together and with the money bought the Potter's Field as a burial place for strangers.
  • Mateo 27:9 NASB
    Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: "AND THEY TOOK THE THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER, THE PRICE OF THE ONE WHOSE PRICE HAD BEEN SET by the sons of Israel;
  • Mateo 27:24 NASB
    When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this Man's blood; see [to that] yourselves."
  • Mateo 27:30 NASB
    They spat on Him, and took the reed and [began] to beat Him on the head.