UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: ἀναιρέω; fut.; ἀνελῶ; ἀναιρέω; 3sg.; ἀνελεῖ; ἀναιρέω; aor.; ἀνεῖλα; ἀναιρέω; subj.; ἀνέλω; ἀναιρέω; inf.; ἀνελεῖν; ἀναιρέω; opt.3sg.; ἀνέλοι; ἀναιρέω; aor.pass.; ἀνῃρέθην

Related lemmas: αἱρέω

Sense 1: to kill, to execute, killing

Semantic entry: 20.71

Semantic domains: Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill

Subdomains: Kill

Definition: to get rid of someone by execution, often with legal or quasi-legal procedures

MAT 2:16: RV MAT 2:16 · LV MAT 2:16 · Read together MAT 2:16

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OET-RV MAT 2:16

16 When King Herodes (Herod) realised that he’d been tricked by the watchers of signs, he got very angry and gave orders that all the sons in Beyt -Lehem (Bethlehem) and its districts that were two years old and younger be killed, because that was the period that he’d found out from the watchers of signs.

OET-LV MAT 2:16

16 Then Haʸrōdaʸs, having _seen that he _was _mocked by the wise _men, was _enraged exceedingly and having _sent _out, he _killed all the boys which in Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem) and in all the regions of _it from two _year and lower, according _to the time which he _ascertained from the wise _men.

LUK 22:2: RV LUK 22:2 · LV LUK 22:2 · Read together LUK 22:2

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OET-RV LUK 22:2

2 and the chief priests and the religious teachers were trying to find a way to kill Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) without causing the people to riot.

OET-LV LUK 22:2

2 And the chief _priests and the scribes were _seeking, the way how they _may _kill him, because/for they _were _fearing the people.

All 21 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 2:16 · LV MAT 2:16 · Read together MAT 2:16

LUK: RV LUK 22:2 · RV LUK 23:32 · LV LUK 22:2 · LV LUK 23:32 · Read together LUK 22:2 · Read together LUK 23:32

TH2: RV TH2 2:8 · LV TH2 2:8 · Read together TH2 2:8

Sense 2: to abolish, to invalidate, to do away with

Semantic entry: 76.22

Semantic domains: Power, Force

Definition: to remove or withdraw the validation of something

Notes: See 76.21: ἵστημι.

HEB 10:9: RV HEB 10:9 · LV HEB 10:9 · Read together HEB 10:9

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OET-RV HEB 10:9

9 Then he said, ‘Listen, I’m coming to do whatever you want.’ So he was terminating the first agreement in order to be able to establish the second one.

OET-LV HEB 10:9

9 then he _has _said:
Behold, I _am _coming which to _do the will of _you.
He _is _killing the first covenant, in _order _that the second he _may _establish.

Sense 3: to adopt, adoption

Semantic entry: 35.53

Semantic domains: Help, Care For

Subdomains: Adopt

Definition: to formally and legally declare that someone who is not one’s own child is henceforth to be treated and cared for as one’s own child, including complete rights of inheritance

Notes: In a number of languages adoption is spoken of as ‘making a child a son’ or ‘causing a child to become a daughter.’ In some instances the equivalent expression is merely ‘to treat someone as a son’ or ‘… daughter.’

Collocations: ἀναιρέομαι

ACT 7:21: RV ACT 7:21 · LV ACT 7:21 · Read together ACT 7:21

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OET-RV ACT 7:21

21 before being placed outside, from where Par’oh’s daughter took him and brought him up herself as her own son.

OET-LV ACT 7:21

21 And, having _been _set _out of _him the daughter of _Faraō/(Farˊoh) took_ him _away, and brought_ him _up for _herself for a_son.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἀναιρέω

Form 1

Sense 1: to kill, to execute, killing

Sense 2: to abolish, to invalidate, to do away with

Sense 3: to adopt, adoption