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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 Box Gen 25:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 - Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding on to Esau’s heel, so he was named [fn]Jacob; and Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:4 - But the LORD said to Moses, “Reach out with your hand and grasp it by its tail”—so he reached out with his hand and caught it, and it turned into a staff in his [fn]hand—

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:17 - “So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my two hands, and smashed them to pieces before your eyes!

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11 -

“If two men, a man and his countryman, have a fight [fn]with each other, and the wife of one comes up to save her husband from the hand of the one who is hitting him, and she reaches out with her hand and grasps [fn]that man’s genitals,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - then they would say to him, “Just say, ‘Shibboleth.’” But he said, “Sibboleth,” for he was not [fn]prepared to [fn]pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the crossing places of the Jordan. So at that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim fell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - Now Samson lay asleep until midnight, and at midnight he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two doorposts, and pulled them up along with the bars; then he put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain which is opposite Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:21 - Then the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and restrained him with bronze chains, and he became a grinder in the prison.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:25 - But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and brought her outside to them; and they [fn]raped her and abused her all night until morning, then let her go at the approach of dawn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:29 - When he entered his house, he took a knife and seized his concubine, and cut her in twelve pieces, limb by limb. Then he sent her throughout the territory of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:6 - “And I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout the land of Israel’s inheritance; for they have committed an outrageous sin and vile act in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:11 - When she brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, “Come, sleep with me, my sister.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:5 - And whenever a man approached to prostrate himself before him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:50

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:50 - Adonijah also was afraid of Solomon, and he got up, and went, and took hold of the horns of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:6 - The lowest story was [fn]five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he [fn]made offsets in the wall of the house all around so that the beams would not [fn]be inserted into the walls of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:30 - Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:12 - And Elisha was watching it and he was crying out, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” And he did not see [fn]Elijah again. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:27 - But she came to the man of God at the hill and took hold of his feet. And Gehazi came up to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is [fn]troubled within her; and the LORD has concealed it from me and has not informed me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:15 -

“He depends on his house, but it does not stand;

He holds on to it, but it does not endure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:8 -

“And You have shriveled me up,

[fn]It has become a witness;

And my infirmity rises up against me,

It testifies to my face.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:18 -

“By a great force my garment is distorted;

It ties me up like the collar of my coat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:13 -

So that it would take hold of the ends of the earth,

And the wicked would be shaken off from it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:2 -

Take hold of [fn]buckler and shield

And rise up as my help.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 48:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:6 -

[fn]Panic seized them there,

Anguish, as that of a woman in childbirth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:13 -

Take hold of instruction; do not let go.

Guard her, for she is your life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:13 -

So she seizes him and kisses him,

[fn]And with a brazen face she says to him:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:6 -

When a man lays hold of his brother in his father’s house, saying,

“You have a cloak, you shall be our ruler!

And these ruins will be under your [fn]authority,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:1 -

For seven women will take hold of one man on that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our disgrace!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:29 -

Its roaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions;

It growls as it seizes the prey

And carries it off with no one to save it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:4 -

“I have no wrath.

Should [fn]someone give Me briars and thorns in battle,

Then I would step on them, I would burn them [fn]completely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:32 - not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:33 - “They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, teaching again and again, they would not listen to accept discipline.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:23 - “Since you have burned [fn]sacrifices and have sinned against the LORD and not obeyed the voice of the LORD nor walked in His Law, His statutes, or His testimonies, therefore this disaster has happened to you, as it has this day.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24 -

“Damascus has become helpless;

She has turned away to flee,

And panic has gripped her;

Distress and labor pains have seized her

Like a woman in childbirth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:7 -

“When they took hold of you with the hand,

You broke and tore all their [fn]hands;

And when they leaned on you,

You broke and made all their hips [fn]shake.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:21 - “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up [fn]for healing [fn]or wrapped with a bandage, so that it may be strong to wield the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:6 - The side chambers were in three stories, [fn]one above another, and [fn]thirty in each story; and [fn]the side chambers extended to the wall which stood on [fn]their inward side all around, so that they could be attached, but not be attached to the wall of the temple itself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:9 -

They storm the city,

They run on the wall;

They climb into the houses,

They enter through the windows like a thief.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:23

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:23 - “The LORD of armies says this: ‘In those days ten people from all the [fn]nations will [fn]grasp the [fn]garment of a Jew, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:13 - And it will come about on that day that a great panic from the LORD will [fn]fall on them; and they will seize one another’s hand, and the hand of one will [fn]be raised against the hand of another.
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