Original Word: ὑπολαμβάνω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: hupolambanó
Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-ol-am-ban'-o)
Short Definition: I take up, receive, answer, suppose, welcome
Definition: (a) I take up, (b) I welcome, entertain, (c) I answer, (d) I suppose, imagine.STRONGS NT 5274: ὑπολαμβάνω

ὑπολαμβάνω; 2 aorist ὑπέλαβον;

1. "to take up (literally, under (cf. ὑπό, III. 1)) in order to raise, to bear on high (Herodotus 1, 24); to take up and carry away" (ὥσπερ νῆα ἄνεμοι ὑπολαβόντες, Stobaeus, serm. 6, p. 79, 17): τινα, Acts 1:9 (see ὀφθαλμός, middle).

2. to receive hospitably, welcome: τινα, 3 John 1:8 L T Tr WH (Xenophon, an. 1, 1, 7).

3. to take up i. e. follow in speech, in order either to reply to or controvert or supplement what another has said (very often so in secular authors from Herodotus down): ὑπολαβών εἶπεν, Luke 10:30 (for עָנָה, Job 2:4; Job 4:1; Job 6:1; Job 9:1; Job 11:1; Job 12:1, etc.).

4. to take up in the mind, i. e. to assume, suppose: Acts 2:15; followed by ὅτι (namely, πλεῖον ἀγαπήσει), Luke 7:43 (Job 25:3; Tobit 6:18; Wis. 17:2; 3Macc. 3:8; 4 Macc. 5:17 (18) etc.,and often in secular authors from Xenophon, and Plato down).

STRONGS NT 5274a: ὑπόλειμμαὑπόλειμμα (ὑπόλιμμα WH (see their Appendix, p. 154; cf. Iota), ὑπολειμματος, τό, a remnant (see κατάλειμμα): Romans 9:27 L T Tr WH. (The Sept.; Aristotle, Theophrastus, Plutarch, Galen.)

assume, receive

From hupo and lambano; to take from below, i.e. Carry upward; figuratively, to take up, i.e. Continue a discourse or topic; mentally, to assume (presume) -- answer, receive, suppose.

see GREEK hupo

see GREEK lambano

υπελαβεν υπέλαβεν ὑπέλαβεν υπέλαβες υπέλαβές υπελάβομεν υπέλαβον υπέλαβόν υπελάμβανον υπολάβης υπολάβητε υπολάβοι υπολαβόντες υπολαβων υπολαβών ὑπολαβὼν υπολαμβανειν ὑπολαμβάνειν υπολαμβανετε υπολαμβάνετε ὑπολαμβάνετε Υπολαμβανω υπολαμβάνω Ὑπολαμβάνω υπόλειμμα hypelaben hypélaben hypolabon hypolabōn hypolabṑn hypolambanein hypolambánein hypolambanete hypolambánete Hypolambano Hypolambanō Hypolambáno Hypolambánō upelaben upolabon upolabōn upolambanein upolambanete Upolambano UpolambanōInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts