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Lexicon :: Strong's G1949 - epilambanomai

Aa
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 that came forth his brother, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:4 - And Jehovah said unto Moses, Put forth thy hand, and take it by the tail: (and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand:)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:17 - And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11 - When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he could not frame to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:21 - And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:25 - But the men would not hearken to him: so the man laid hold on his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:29 - And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:6 - And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:5 - And it was so, that, when any man came nigh to do him obeisance, he put forth 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 Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:6 - The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house round about, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:30 - And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:12 - And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof! And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:27 - And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her; and Jehovah hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:15 -
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand:
He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:8 -
And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me:
And my leanness riseth up against me,
It testifieth to my face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:18 -
By God’s great force is my garment disfigured;
It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:13 -
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
And the wicked be shaken out of it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:2 -
Take hold of shield and buckler,
And stand up for my help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:6 -
Trembling took hold of them there,
Pain, as of a woman in travail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:13 -
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go:
Keep her; for she is thy life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:13 -
So she caught him, and kissed him,
And with an impudent face she said unto him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:6 - When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:1

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:29 - their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:4 - Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:32 - not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:33 - And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:23 - Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against Jehovah, and have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24 - Damascus is waxed feeble, she turneth herself to flee, and trembling hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:7 - When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and didst rend all their shoulders; and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:21 - Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it hath not been bound up, to apply healing medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:6 - And the side-chambers were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side-chambers round about, that they might have hold therein, and not have hold in the wall of the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:9 - They leap upon the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like a thief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:23

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:23 - Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:13 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from Jehovah shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
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