ἀπολαμβάνω
to receive
‘to receive’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
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.
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 10 distinct
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (10%)
+2 more forms (2 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 10 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G618 appears — 10 distinct verses across 6 books. 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.
Mark 1 verse
Luke 5 verses
- Luke 6:34 ἀπολάβωσιν aor act subj 3pl If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.
- Luke 15:27 ἀπέλαβεν aor act ind 3sg He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'
- Luke 16:25 ἀπέλαβες aor act ind 2sg "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
- Luke 18:30 ἀπολάβῃ aor act subj 3sg who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."
- Luke 23:41 ἀπολαμβάνομεν pres act ind 1pl And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong."
Romans 1 verse
Galatians 1 verse
Colossians 1 verse
2 John 1 verse
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.
απολαμβανω — transliterated apolambánō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to receive.” More than half of its appearances fall in Luke. It appears 10 verses across 6 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Debuting at Mark 7:33, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 4 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G618 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,056
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,056 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 10 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 10 distinct verses.
- Gospels 6 verses · 60%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 50%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 30%
- Johannine 1 verse · 10%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 10%
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: Receive 4×, We receive 2×
- American Standard Version: Receive 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Be repaid 1×, He has him back 1×, Received 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Aside 1×, Back 1×, Having taken 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G618 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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 G618 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 G618 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G618 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 4 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.
- of what is due or promised
- to take again or back, to recover
- to take from others, take apart or aside
- to receive any one hospitably
Word origin
Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms G618 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀπέλαβεν apélaben | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 15:27 | 1 |
| ἀπέλαβες apélabes | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular | Luke 16:25 | 1 |
| ἀπολάβητε apolábēte | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural | 2 John 1:8 | 1 |
| ἀπολάβωμεν apolábōmen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural | Galatians 4:5 | 1 |
| ἀπολάβωσιν apolábōsin | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural | Luke 6:34 | 1 |
| ἀπολάβῃ apolábē | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 18:30 | 1 |
| ἀπολήμψεσθε apolḗmpsesthe | Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | Colossians 3:24 | 1 |
| ἀπολαβόμενος apolabómenos | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 7:33 | 1 |
| ἀπολαμβάνομεν apolambánomen | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | Luke 23:41 | 1 |
| ἀπολαμβάνοντες apolambánontes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Romans 1:27 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G618, 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
- απαγγελλω apangéllō G518 to report
- απαγχομαι apánchomai G519 to strangle
- απαγω apágō G520 to lead away
- απαιρω apaírō G522 to take away
- απαιτεω apaitéō G523 to demand back
- απαλγεω apalgéō G524 to cease grieving
- απαλλασσω apallássō G525 to depart
- απαλλοτριοω apallotrióō G526 to estrange
- απανταω apantáō G528 to meet
- απαρνεομαι aparnéomai G533 to deny
- απαρτι apárti G534 henceforth
- απαρχη aparchḗ G536 to offer firstfruits
- απαυγασμα apaúgasma G541 brightness
- απειδω apeídō G542 to look away
- απειμι ápeimi G548 to depart
- απειμι ápeimi G549 to depart
- απειπομην apeipómēn G550 to declare
- απεκδεχομαι apekdéchomai G553 waiting for
- απεκδυομαι apekdýomai G554 to despoil
- απελαυνω apelaúnō G556 to drive away
- απελεγμος apelegmós G557 censure
- απελευθερος apeleútheros G558 freedman
- απελπιζω apelpízō G560 not despairing
- απεναντι apénanti G561 opposite
+85 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 111 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word απολαμβανω appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 2 books.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Numbers 34:14 ἀπολαμβάνω
- Isaiah 5:17 ἀπολαμβάνω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G618) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Numbers 34:14 ἀπολαμβάνω for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance:
- Isaiah 5:17 ἀπολαμβάνω Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, And strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G618) 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.
