Definition

while G138 (αἱρέομαι) is more violent, to seize or remove))

Etymology

a prolonged form of a primary verb, which is use only as an alternate in certain tenses; to take (in very many applications, literally and figuratively (properly objective or active, to get hold of; whereas G1209 (δέχομαι) is rather subjective or passive, to have offered to one;

Where the KJV renders it

• accept
• + be amazed
• assay
• attain
• bring
• X when I call
• catch
• come on (X unto)
• + forget
• have
• hold
• obtain
• receive (X after)
• take (away
• 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

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.