Strong's Greek · G618

ἀπολαμβάνω

apolambánō

receive, take

Definition

to receive (specially, in full, or as a host); also to take aside

Derivation

from G575 (ἀπό) and G2983 (λαμβάνω);

Appears 10 times in Scripture

Mark 7:33

So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, and put His fingers into the man’s ears. Then He spit and touched the man’s tongue.

Colossians 3:24

because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

Luke 18:30

will fail to receive many times more in this age—and in the age to come, eternal life.”

2 John 1:8

Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.

Luke 23:41

We are punished justly, for we are receiving what our actions deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”

Galatians 4:5

to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

Romans 1:27

Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Luke 15:27

‘Your brother has returned,’ he said, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has him back safe and sound.’

Luke 6:34

And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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