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Lexicon :: Strong's G1949 - epilambanomai

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ἐπιλαμβάνομαι
Transliteration
epilambanomai (Key)
Pronunciation
ep-ee-lam-ban'-om-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:9,*

Strong’s Definitions

†ἐπιλαμβάνομαι epilambánomai, ep-ee-lam-ban'-om-ahee; middle voice from G1909 and G2983; to seize (for help, injury, attainment, or any other purpose; literally or figuratively):—catch, lay hold (up-)on, take (by, hold of, on).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x

The KJV translates Strong's G1949 in the following manner: took (11x), caught (2x), took on (1x), lay hold on (2x), take hold (2x), laid hold upon (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x
The KJV translates Strong's G1949 in the following manner: took (11x), caught (2x), took on (1x), lay hold on (2x), take hold (2x), laid hold upon (1x).

  1. to take in addition, to lay hold of, take possession of, overtake, attain, attain to

    1. to lay hold of or to seize upon anything with the hands, to take hold of, lay hold of

    2. metaph. to rescue one from peril, to help, succour

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†ἐπιλαμβάνομαι epilambánomai, ep-ee-lam-ban'-om-ahee; middle voice from G1909 and G2983; to seize (for help, injury, attainment, or any other purpose; literally or figuratively):—catch, lay hold (up-)on, take (by, hold of, on).
STRONGS G1949:
ἐπιλαμβάνω; 2 aorist middle ἐπελαβόμην; to take in addition (cf. ἐπί, D. 4), to take, lay hold of, take possession of, overtake, attain to. In the Bible only in the middle; the Sept. for אָחַז and הֶחֱזִיק;
a. properly, to lay hold of or to seize upon anything with the hands (German sichanetwasanhalten): τῶν ἀφλαστων νηός, Herodotus 6, 114; hence, universally, to take hold of, lag hold of: with the genitive of person, Matthew 14:31; Luke 9:47. (Tr WH accusative); (Luke 23:26 R G); Acts 17:19; Acts 21:30, 33; with the accusative of person, Luke 23:26 L T Tr WH, but in opposition see Meyer; for where the participle ἐπιλαβόμενος is in this sense joined with an accusative, the accusative, by the σχῆμα ἀπό κοίνου, depends also upon the accompanying finite verb (cf. Buttmann, § 132, 9; (so Winer's Grammar, (edited by Lünem.) 202 (190))): Acts 9:27; Acts 16:19; Acts 18:17, cf. Luke 14:4. with the genitive of a thing: τῆς χειρός τίνος, Mark 8:23; Acts 23:19; of a leader, and thus metaphorically, of God, Hebrews 8:9 (cf. Winers Grammar, 571 (531); Buttmann, 316 (271)); with the genitive of a person and of a thing: ἐπιλαμβάνειν τίνος λόγου, ῤήματος, to take anyone in his speech, i. e. to lay hold of something said by him which can be turned against him, Luke 20:20 (Tr λόγον), 26 (WH Tr marginal reading τοῦ for αὐτοῦ); ἐπιλαμβάνειν τῆς αἰωνίου (others, ὄντως) ζωῆς, to seize upon, lay hold of, i. e. to struggle to obtain eternal life, 1 Timothy 6:12, 19 (cf. Winers Grammar, 312 (293)).
b. by a metaphor drawn from laying hold of another to rescue him from peril, to help, to succor (cf. German sicheinesannehmen): τίνος, Hebrews 2:16; in this sense used besides only in Sir. 4:11 and Schol. ad Aeschylus Pers. 739. In Appian. bel. civ. 4, 96 the active is thus used with the dative: ἡμῖν τό δαιμόνιον ἐπιλαμβανει.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
14:31
Mark
8:23
Luke
9:47; 14:4; 20:20; 23:26; 23:26
Acts
9:27; 16:19; 17:19; 18:17; 21:30; 21:33; 23:19
1 Timothy
6:12; 6:19
Hebrews
2:16; 8:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1949 matches the Greek ἐπιλαμβάνομαι (epilambanomai),
which occurs 41 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 - And after this came forth his brother, and his hand took hold of the heel of Esau; and she called his name Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when Rebecca bore them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:4 - And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thine hand, and take hold of its tail: so he stretched forth his hand and took hold of the tail,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:17 - then I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11 - And if men should strive together, a man with his brother, and the wife of one of them should advance to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and she should stretch forth her hand, and take hold of his private parts;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - Then they said to him, Say now [fn]Stachys; and he did not rightly pronounce it so: and they took him, and slew him at the fords of Jordan; and there fell at that time of Ephraim two and forty thousand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - And Sampson slept till midnight, and rose up at midnight, and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city with the two posts, and lifted them up with the bar, and laid them on his shoulders, and he went up to the top of the mountain that is before Chebron, and laid them there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:21 - And the Philistines took him, and [fn]put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground in the prison-house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:25 - But the men would not consent to hearken to him; so the man laid hold of his concubine, and brought her out to them; and they knew her, and abused her all night till the morning, and let her go when the morning dawned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:29 - And he took his sword, and laid hold of his concubine, and divided her into twelve parts, and sent them to every coast of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:6 - And I laid hold of my concubine, and divided her in pieces, and sent the parts into every coast of the inheritance of the children of Israel; for they have wrought lewdness and abomination in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:11 - And she brought them to him to eat, and he caught hold of her, and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:5 - And it came to pass when a man came near to do him obeisance, that he stretched out his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:50

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:50 - And Adonias feared because of Solomon, and arose, and departed, and laid hold on the horns of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:6 - The under side was five cubits broad, and the middle part six, and the third was seven cubits broad; for he formed an interval to the house round about without the house, that they might not touch the walls of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:30 - And Achia laid hold of his new garment that was upon him, and tore it into twelve pieces:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:12 - And Elisaie saw, and cried, Father, father, the chariot of Israel, and the horseman thereof! And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his garments, and rent them into two pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:27 - And she came to Elisaie to the mountain, and laid hold of his feet; and Giezi drew near to thrust her away. And Elisaie said, Let her alone, for her soul is much grieved in her, and the Lord has hidden it from me, and has not told it me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:15 - If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:8 - My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:18 - With great force my disease has taken hold of my garment: it has compassed me as the collar of my coat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:13 - to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:2 - (LXX 34:2) Take hold of shield and buckler, and arise for my help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:6 - (LXX 47:7) Trembling took hold on them: there were the pangs as of a woman in travail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:13 - Take hold of my instruction; let it not go,—but keep it for thyself for thy life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:13 - Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:6 - For a man shall lay hold of his brother, as one of his father's household, saying, Thou hast raiment, be thou our ruler, and let my meat be under thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:1 - And seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own raiment: only let thy name be called upon us, and take away our reproach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:29 - They rage as lions, and draw nigh as a lion's whelps: and he shall seize, and roar as a wild beast, and he shall cast them forth, and there shall be none to deliver them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:4 - There is no woman that has not taken hold of it; who will set me to watch stubble in the field? because of this enemy I have set her aside; therefore on this account the Lord has done all that he appointed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:32 - (LXX 38:32) not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they abode not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:33 - (LXX 39:33) And they turned the back to me, and not the face: whereas I taught them early in the morning, but they hearkened no more to receive instruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:23 - (LXX 51:23) because of your burning incense, and because of the things wherein ye sinned against the Lord: and ye have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in his ordinances, and in his law, and in his testimonies; and so these evils have come upon you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24 - (LXX 30:30) Damascus is utterly weakened, she is put to flight; trembling has seized upon her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:7 - When they took hold of thee with their hand, thou didst break: and when every hand was clapped against them, and when they leaned on thee, thou wast utterly broken, and didst crush the loins of them all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:21 - Son of man, I have broken the arms of Pharao, king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up to be healed, to have a plaster put upon it, or to be strengthened to lay hold of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:6 - And the sides were twice ninety, side against side; and there was a space in the wall of the house at the sides round about, that they should be for them that take hold of them to see, that they should not at all touch the walls of the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:9 - They shall seize upon the city, and run upon the walls, and go up upon the houses, and enter in through the windows as thieves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:23

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:23 - Thus saith the Lord Almighty; In those days my word shall be fulfilled if ten men of all the languages of the nations should take hold—even take hold of the hem of a Jew, saying, We will go with thee; for we have heard that God is with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:13 - And there shall be in that day a great [fn]panic from the Lord upon them; and they shall lay hold every man of the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall be clasped with the hand of his neighbour.
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