ἀπολαμβάνω; future 
ἀπολήψομαι (
Colossians 3:24; L T Tr WH 
ἀπολήμψεσθε; see 
λαμβάνω); 2 aorist 
ἀπέλαβον; 2 aorist middle 
ἀπελαβόμην; from Herodotus down;
1. to receive (from another, 
ἀπό [cf. Meyer on 
Galatians 4:5; Ellicott ibid. and 
Winers De verb. comp. etc. as below]) 
what is due or 
promised (cf. 
ἀποδίδωμι, 2): 
τ. 
υἱοθεσίαν, the adoption promised to believers, 
Galatians 4:5; 
τὰ ἀγαθά σου thy good things, "which thou couldst expect and as it were demand, which seemed due to thee" (
Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part iv., p. 13), 
Luke 16:25. Hence,
2. to take again or 
back, to recover: 
Luke 6:34 [T Tr text WH 
λαβεῖν]; 
Luke 15:27; and 
to receive by way of retribution: 
Luke 18:30 (L text Tr marginal reading WH text 
λάβῃ); 
Luke 23:41; 
Romans 1:27; 
2 John 1:8; 
Colossians 3:24.
3. to take from others, take apart or 
aside; middle 
τινά, to take a person with one aside out of the view of others: with the addition of 
ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄχλου κατ’ ἰδίαν in 
Mark 7:33 (Josephus, 
b. j. 2, 7, 2; and in the Act., 2 Macc. 6:21; 
ύστάσπεα ἀπολαβὼν μοῦνον, Herodotus 1, 209; Aristophanes ran. 78; 
ἰδίᾳ ἕνα τῶν τριῶν ἀπολαβών, Appendix, b. 104:5, 40).
4. to receive anyone hospitably: 
3 John 1:8, where L T Tr WH have restored 
ὑπολαμβάνειν. 
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