Apolambano means “receive” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H618 — acam (“storehouse”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G618 ἀπολαμβάνω (apolambano) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. apolambano (ap-ol-am-ban'-o) v. 1. to receive 2. (specially) to receive in full, or as a host It has 17 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include receive, aside, and also. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
apolambano (ap-ol-am-ban'-o) v. 1. to receive 2. (specially) to receive in full, or as a host 3. (also) to take aside [from G575 and G2983] KJV: receive, take Root(s): G575, G2983
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G618. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to get back
Usage: ἀπο-λαμβάνω [in LXX: Num.34:14 (לָקַח (Deu.25:5 A, Isa.5:17, 2Ma.4:46 2Mac 6:21 2Mac 8:6, 4Ma.18:23 * ;] __1. to receive from another; absol., to receive as one's due: Luk.16:25 18:30 (seel. λάβῃ) Luk.23:41, Rom.1:27, Gal.4:5, Col.3:24, 2Jn.8. __2. to receive back: Luk.6:34 15:27. __3. to take apart or aside: Mrk.7:33 (cf. use in π. of the recluses of the Serapeum; MM, see word).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render apolambano, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G618 (ἀπολαμβάνω) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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11 indexed usages in New Testament.
And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
For the tribe of the children of Reuben, and the tribe of the children of Gad have received their inheritance according to their families; and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritances.
And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Whereupon Ptolemy taking the king aside into a certain gallery, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind:
But they that had the charge of that wicked feast, for the old acquaintance they had with the man, taking him aside, besought him to bring flesh of his own provision, such as was lawful for him to use, and make as if he did eat of the flesh taken from the sacrifice commanded by the king;
Therefore he came at unawares, and burned up towns and cities, and got into his hands the most commodious places, and overcame and put to flight no small number of his enemies.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G618.
For the tribe of the children of Reuben, and the tribe of the children of Gad have received their inheritance according to their families; and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritances.
And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away.
And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.
Whereupon Ptolemy taking the king aside into a certain gallery, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind:
But they that had the charge of that wicked feast, for the old acquaintance they had with the man, taking him aside, besought him to bring flesh of his own provision, such as was lawful for him to use, and make as if he did eat of the flesh taken from the sacrifice commanded by the king;
Therefore he came at unawares, and burned up towns and cities, and got into his hands the most commodious places, and overcame and put to flight no small number of his enemies.
But the children of Abraham, with their victorious mother, are assembled together to the choir of their fathers; having received pure and immortal souls from God.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G618, grouped by book.
Apolambano (Strong's G618) is a Greek word most simply glossed "receive". apolambano (ap-ol-am-ban'-o) v. 1. to receive 2. (specially) to receive in full, or as a host
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's G618 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G618 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as receive, aside, and also. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G618, with linked reader references where each row is available.