komivzw komivzw: 1 aorist participle feminine komivsasa; middle, present participle komizovmeno"; 1 future komivsomai ( L T Tr WH; L text WH) and Attic komiou'mai ( R G L marginal reading T Tr; ( R G); ; cf. (WH's Appendix, p. 163f); Buttmann, 37 (33); (Winer's Grammar, sec. 13, 1 c.; Veitch, under the word)), participle komioumeno" ( (here WH Tr marginal reading ajdikouvmenoi; see ajdikevw, 2 b.)); 1 aorist ejkomisavmhn,(lButtmann, sec. 135, 1); rare in the Septuagint, but in Greek writings from Homer down, frequent in various senses;1. to care for, take care of, provide for.2. to take up or carry away in order to care for and preserve.3. universally, to carry away, bear off.4. to carry, bear, bring to: once so in the N. T., viz. ajlavbastron, . Middle (as often in secular authors) to carry away for oneself; to carry off what is one's own, to bring back; i. e. a. to receive, obtain: thvn ejpaggelivan, the promised blessing, ; (tav" ejpaggeliva" L; so T Tr WH in ); swthrivan yucw'n, ; th'" dovxh" stevfanon, ; misqovn ajdikiva", (see above) (tovn a[xion th'" dussebeiva" misqovn, ; dovxan ejsqlhn (others, karpivzetai), Euripides, Hipp. 432; thvn ajxivan parav qew'n, Plato, legg. 4, p. 718 a., and other examples elsewhere). b. to receive what was previously one's own, to get back, receive back, recover: tov ejmovn suvn tovkw/, ; his son (of Abraham after he had consented to sacrifice Isaac), (; tovn ajdelfovn ajnubriston, Philo de Josepho sec. 35; oiJ dev par! ejlpivda" eJautouv" kekomivsmenoit, having received each other back, been restored to each other, contrary to their expectations, of Abraham and Isaac after the sacrifice of the latter had been prevented by God, Josephus, Antiquities 1, 13, 4; thvn ajdelfhvn, Euripides, Iph. T. 1362; used of the recovery of hostages, captives, etc., Thucydides 1, 113; Polybius 1, 83, 8; 3, 51, 12; 3,40, 10; the city and temple, ; a citadel, a city, often in Polybius; thvn basileivan, Aristophanes an. 549; thvn patrwv/an ajrchvn, Josephus, Antiquities 13, 4, 1). Since in the rewards and punishments of deeds, the deeds themselves are as it were requited and so given back to their authors, the meaning is obvious when one is said komivzesqai that which he has done, i. e. either the reward or the punishment of the deed (Winer's Grammar, 620f (576)): ; ; with parav kurivou added, ; ((aJmaritan, ); e{kasto", kaqwv" ejpoivhse, komeitai, the Epistle of Barnabas 4, 12). (Compare: ejkkomivzw, sugkomivzw.)*