ἀναιρέω
to take away
‘to take away’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
17 distinct verses where G337 appears in the Aorist tense, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Luke 2 verses
Acts 14 verses
- Acts 2:23 ἀνείλατε aor act ind 2pl him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
- Acts 5:33 ἀνελεῖν aor act inf But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and determined to kill them.
- Acts 5:36 ἀνῃρέθη aor pass ind 3sg For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.
- Acts 7:21 ἀνείλατο aor mid ind 3sg When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.
- Acts 7:28 ἀνελεῖν ἀνεῖλες aor act inf aor act ind 2sg Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
- Acts 9:23 ἀνελεῖν aor act inf When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,
- Acts 9:24 ἀνέλωσιν aor act subj 3pl but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
- Acts 9:29 ἀνελεῖν aor act inf preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. He spoke and disputed against the Grecian Jews, but they were seeking to kill him.
- Acts 10:39 ἀνεῖλαν aor act ind 3pl We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.
- Acts 12:2 ἀνεῖλεν aor act ind 3sg He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.
- Acts 13:28 ἀναιρεθῆναι aor pass inf Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.
- Acts 23:15 ἀνελεῖν aor act inf Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."
- Acts 23:21 ἀνέλωσιν aor act subj 3pl Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."
- Acts 25:3 ἀνελεῖν aor act inf asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb αναιρεω centers on the idea of “to take away.” The word gravitates to Acts (78%), then Luke and Matthew. It turns up in 23 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 2:16. Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. Dig into 23-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G337 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 23
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 23 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #548
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 548 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 23 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 23 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 20 verses · 87%
- Gospels 3 verses · 13%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 4%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 4%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Kill 5×, Slay 2×, Slew 2×
- American Standard Version: Kill 4×, Slay 3×, Slew 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Kill 7×, Put to death 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Kill 8×, Be killed 2×, He killed 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G337 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G337 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G337 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G337 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to take up, to lift up (from the ground)
- to do away with or abrogate customs or ordinances
- to put out of the way, kill slay a man
Word origin
Derived from ανα (aná) (G303) — among.
Forms in the corpus
The 15 distinct written forms G337 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G337, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- αναβαινω anabaínō G305 to ascend
- αναβαλλομαι anabállomai G306 to delay
- αναβιβαζω anabibázō G307 to draw up
- αναβλεπω anablépō G308 to look up
- αναβοαω anaboáō G310 to cry out
- αναγγελλω anangéllō G312 to announce
- αναγενναω anagennáō G313 to be born again
- αναγινωσκω anaginṓskō G314 to recognize
- αναγκη anánkē G318 necessity
- αναγνωριζομαι anagnōrízomai G319 to recognize
- αναγω anágō G321 to lead up
- αναδεικνυμι anadeíknymi G322 to proclaim
- αναδεχομαι anadéchomai G324 to take up
- αναδιδωμι anadídōmi G325 to give forth
- αναζαω anazáō G326 to live again
- αναζητεω anazētéō G327 to search out
- αναζωννυμι anazṓnnymi G328 to gird up
- αναζωπυρεω anazōpyréō G329 to inflame
- αναθαλλω anathállō G330 to sprout up
- αναθεωρεω anatheōréō G333 to observe
- ανακαθιζω anakathízō G339 to sit up
- ανακαινιζω anakainízō G340 to renew
- ανακαινοω anakainóō G341 to make new
- ανακαλυπτω anakalýptō G343 to uncover
+51 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 78 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αναιρεω appears 60 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 55 verses in 13 books.
- 60
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 55
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 4:15 ἀνααἱρέω
- Exodus 2:5 ἀνααἱρέω
- Numbers 11:15 ἀνααἱρέω
- Deuteronomy 13:16 ἀνααἱρέω
- Joshua 4:3 ἀνααἱρέω
- 2 Samuel 10:18 ἀνααἱρέω
- 1 Kings 2:25 ἀνααἱρέω
- Job 5:2 ἀνααἱρέω
- Psalms 9:26 ἀνααἱρέω
- Isaiah 3:8 ἀνααἱρέω
- Jeremiah 4:31 ἀνααἱρέω
- Ezekiel 26:6 ἀνααἱρέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G337) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 55. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 4:15 ἀνααἱρέω Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.
- Exodus 2:5 ἀνααἱρέω Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.
- Exodus 2:10 ἀνααἱρέω The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
- Exodus 2:14 ἀνααἱρέω He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."
- Exodus 2:15 ἀνααἱρέω Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
- Exodus 15:9 ἀνααἱρέω The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
- Numbers 11:15 ἀνααἱρέω If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
- Numbers 17:2 ἀνααἱρέω Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write you every man's name on his rod.
- Numbers 31:19 ἀνααἱρέω Encamp you outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
- Numbers 35:31 ἀνααἱρέω Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 13:16 ἀνααἱρέω You shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street of it, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil of it every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.
- Joshua 4:3 ἀνααἱρέω and command you them, saying, Take hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where you shall lodge this night.
- Joshua 4:5 ἀνααἱρέω and Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up every man of you a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;
- Joshua 9:26 ἀνααἱρέω So did he to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they didn't kill them.
- Joshua 11:12 ἀνααἱρέω All the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.
- Joshua 11:17 ἀνααἱρέω from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and struck them, and put them to death.
- Joshua 12:1 ἀνααἱρέω Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
- Joshua 12:7 ἀνααἱρέω These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
- 2 Samuel 10:18 ἀνααἱρέω The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians [the men of] seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their host, so that he died there.
- 1 Kings 2:25 ἀνααἱρέω King Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.
- 1 Kings 2:29 ἀνααἱρέω It was told king Solomon, Joab is fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall on him.
- 1 Kings 2:31 ἀνααἱρέω The king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.
- 1 Kings 2:46 ἀνααἱρέω So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
- Job 5:2 ἀνααἱρέω For resentment kills the foolish man, And jealousy kills the simple.
- Job 6:9 ἀνααἱρέω Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
- Job 20:16 ἀνααἱρέω He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
- Psalms 9:26 ἀνααἱρέω
- Psalms 45:10 ἀνααἱρέω Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
- Psalms 57:9 ἀνααἱρέω I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples. I will sing praises to you among the nations.
- Psalms 71:7 ἀνααἱρέω I am a marvel to many, But you are my strong refuge.
- Psalms 103:29 ἀνααἱρέω
- Psalms 108:23 ἀνααἱρέω
- Isaiah 3:8 ἀνααἱρέω For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; Because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, To provoke the eyes of his glory.
- Isaiah 11:4 ἀνααἱρέω but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he kill the wicked.
- Isaiah 14:30 ἀνααἱρέω The firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant shall be killed.
- Isaiah 26:21 ἀνααἱρέω For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
- Isaiah 27:1 ἀνααἱρέω In that day Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.
- Isaiah 27:7 ἀνααἱρέω Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by them?
- Isaiah 27:8 ἀνααἱρέω In measure, when you send them away, you do contend with them; he has removed [them] with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
- Isaiah 28:6 ἀνααἱρέω and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
- Isaiah 37:36 ἀνααἱρέω The angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
- Isaiah 65:15 ἀνααἱρέω You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:
- Jeremiah 4:31 ἀνααἱρέω For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the murderers.
- Jeremiah 7:32 ἀνααἱρέω Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place [to bury].
- Jeremiah 18:21 ἀνααἱρέω Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.
- Jeremiah 33:15 ἀνααἱρέω In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
- Jeremiah 33:19 ἀνααἱρέω The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
- Jeremiah 33:24 ἀνααἱρέω Don't you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
- Jeremiah 45:4 ἀνααἱρέω Thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
- Jeremiah 48:8 ἀνααἱρέω The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G337) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
