lambavnw lambavnw; imperfect ejlavmbanon; future lhvyomai (L T Tr WH lhvmyomai, an Alexandrian form; see under the word Mu); 2 aorist e[labon (2 person plural once (in Tdf. 7 after B*) ejlabate, ; see references under the word ajpevrcomai, at the beginning), imperative labev (f), not labev (Winer's Grammar, sec. 6, 1 a.; Buttmann, 62 (54)); perfect ei[lhfa, 2 person ejoilhfa" (and ejilhfe" ( WH; see kopiavw); on the use of the perfect interchangeably with an aorist (; , etc.) cf. Buttmann, 197 (170); Winer's Grammar, 272 (255); Jebb in Vincent and Dickson's Modern Greek, 2nd edition, Appendix, sections 67, 68), participle eijlhfwv"; (passive, present participle lambanovmeno"; perfect 3 person singular ejilhptai, WH marginal reading (rejected section)); the Septuagint hundreds of times for jq'l;, very often for ac;n:, also for dk'l; and several times for zj'a;; (from Homer down);I. to take, i. e.:1. to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it: absolutely, where the context shows what is taken, ; ; (tovn) a[rton, ; ; tov biblivon, (see Buttmann, and Winer's Grammar, as above); macairon (grasp, lay hand to), , and in many other examples After a circumstantial style of description (see ajnivsthmi, II. 1 c.) in use from Homer down (cf. Passow, under the word C.; (Liddell and Scott, under the word I. 11); Matthiae, sec. 558, Anm. 2; (Winer's Grammar, sec. 65, 4 c.)), the participle labwvn with the accusative of the object is placed before an active verb where it does not always seem to us necessary to mention the act of taking (as labwvn kuse cei'ra (cf. our `he took and kissed'), Homer, Odyssey 24, 398): , ; ; ; , ; ; Rec.;; ; labwvn tov ai|ma ... tovn laovn ejrravntise (equivalent to tw'/ ai{mati ... tovn laovn ejrravntise), ; or the verb labei'n in a finite form followed by kaiv precedes, as e[labe tovn !Ihsou'n kaiv ejmastivgwsen, ; add, ; ; ; also labei'n tovn a[rton ... kaiv balei'n etc., ; ; e[labon ... kaiv ejpoivhsan, . metaphorically, ajformhvn (see the word, 2), , ; uJpovdeigma tivno" (the genitive of the thing) tina, to take one as an example of a thing, for imitation, ; to take in order to wear, tav iJmavtia, i. e. to put on: (ejsqh'ta, uJpodhvmata, Herodotus 2, 37; 4, 78); morfhvn douvlou, . to take in the mouth: something to eat, ; ; (cf. Latin cibum capio, to take food); to take anything to drink, i. e. drink, swallow, u{dwr, ; to drink, tov o[xo", <<ref:BHS/GNT