ἐπαίρω; 1 aorist
ἐπῆρα, participle
ἐπάρας, imperative 2 person plural
ἐπάρατε, infinitive
ἐπᾶραι; perfect
ἐπῆρκα (
John 13:18 Tdf.); [passive and middle, present
ἐπαίρομαι]; 1 aorist passive
ἐπήρθην; (on the omission of the iota subscript, see
αἴρω at the beginning); from Herodotus down;
Sept. chiefly for
נָשָׂא, also for
הֵרִים;
to lift up, raise up, raise on high:
τὸν ἀρτέμονα, to hoist up,
Acts 27:40 (τὰ ἱστία, Plutarch, mor., p. 870 [de Herod. malign. § 39]);
τὰς χεῖρας, in offering prayer,
1 Timothy 2:8 (
Nehemiah 8:6;
Psalm 133:2 (
Ps. 134:2)); in blessing,
Luke 24:50 [cf. Winer's Grammar § 65, 4 c.] (
Leviticus 9:22 [yet here
ἐξάρας]; Sir. 50:20);
τὰς κεφαλάς, of the timid and sorrowful recovering spirit,
Luke 21:28 (so
αὐχένα, Philo de secular § 20);
τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς, to look up,
Matthew 17:8;
Luke 16:23;
John 4:35;
John 6:5;
εἴς τινα,
Luke 6:20;
εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν,
Luke 18:13;
John 17:1;
τὴν φωνήν,
Luke 11:27;
Acts 2:14;
Acts 14:11;
Acts 22:22, (Demosthenes 449, 13;
Sept. Judges 2:4;
Judges 9:7;
2 Samuel 13:36);
τὴν πτέρναν ἐπί τινα, to lift the heel against one (see
πτέρνα),
John 13:18. Passive
ἐπήρθη, was taken up (of Christ, taken up into heaven),
Acts 1:9; reflexively and metaphorically,
to be lifted up with pride, to exalt oneself:
2 Corinthians 11:20 (
Jeremiah 13:15;
Psalm 46:10 (
Ps. 47:10); Sir. 11:4; Sir. 35:1 (Sir. 32:1); 1 Macc. 1:3 1 Macc. 2:63; Aristophanes nub. 810; Thucydides 4, 18; Aeschines 87, 24; with the dative of the thing of which one is proud,
Proverbs 3:5;
Zephaniah 1:11; Herodotus 9, 49; Thucydides 1, 120; Xenophon, Cyril 8, 5, 24); — on
2 Corinthians 10:5 see
ὕψωμα.
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