noun · feminine
analēmpsias
Strong’sG354
a taking up, lifting up
stem analēmpsi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* ἀνά-λημψις, -εως, ἡ
(κοινή form of ἀνάληψις; v. Th., Gr., 108 f.),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G354 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidan-al'-ape-sis
ascension
Fromfrom G353;
King Jamestaking up.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
later -λημψις, εως, ἡ, hyperdorian mode -λαψις Ti Locrian dialect 100c:— taking up, e.g. suspension in a sling, fixing a bandage, Refs 5th c.BC+; looping or tying up of vines, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 receiving back into a family, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 acquirement of knowledge, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+
4 assumption of an office, uncertain in Refs
5 passive, being taken up or away, Refs; ascension, NT
6 reception, entertainment, Refs
7 assimilation, τροφῆς Refs
II recovery, μνήμηςRefs 4th c.BC+; means of regaining, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 making good, making amends, Refs 5th c.BC+; refreshing of soldiers after hard work, Refs 4th c.BC+:—recovery from illness, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 repair, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.4 repetition, [Refs 3rd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | analēmpsias | analēmpsiais |
| object accusative | analēmpsian | analēmpsiain |
| direct address vocative | analēmpsiar | analēmpsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | analēmpsiau1×ἀναλήμψεως | analēmpsiaiu |
| to, for dative | analēmpsia | analēmpsiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
analēmpsia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
analēmpsiau“taken up”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 9:51“taken up”… en te sumplērorō tain hēmerain tau analēmpsiau autou kai autos tem prosōpem stērizata …As the day of His ascension approached, Jesus resolutely set out for …