Definition

to take up, i.e. adopt; by implication, to take away (violently), i.e. abolish, murder

Etymology

from G303 (ἀνά) and (the active of) G138 (αἱρέομαι);

Where the KJV renders it

• put to death
• kill
• slay
• take away
• take up

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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