UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: ὑπολαμβάνω; aor.; ὑπέλαβον; ὑπολαμβάνω; ptc.; ὑπολαβών

Related lemmas: λαμβάνω

Sense 1: to make ascend, to take up

Semantic entry: 15.102

Semantic domains: Linear Movement

Subdomains: Come/Go Up, Ascend

Definition: to cause to ascend

ACT 1:9: RV ACT 1:9 · LV ACT 1:9 · Read together ACT 1:9

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9 After he’d said that and while they were still looking at him, he was lifted up into the sky until they could no longer see him because of the clouds.

OET-LV ACT 1:9

9 And having _said these things, seeing them, he _was _lifted _up and a_cloud took_ him _up from the eyes of _them.

Sense 2: to reply to respond

Semantic entry: 33.187

Semantic domains: Communication

Subdomains: Question, Answer

Definition: to respond to what has been said (in the NT restricted to responses to questions)

LUK 10:30: RV LUK 10:30 · LV LUK 10:30 · Read together LUK 10:30

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30 Yeshua replied with this: “Once a Jewish man was walking downhill from Yerushalem (Jerusalem) to Yeriho (Jericho) when a group of robbers grabbed him and took everything including his clothes, then took off leaving him there wounded and half-dead.

OET-LV LUK 10:30

30 the Yaʸsous having _replied said:
A_ certain _man was _coming _down from Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim) to Yeriⱪō/(Yərīḩō), and he _fell _among among _robbers, who both having _stripped_ him _off, and having _inflicted wounds, they _went _away having _left him half _dead.

Sense 3: to help

Semantic entry: 35.1

Semantic domains: Help, Care For

Subdomains: Help

Definition: to assist in supplying what may be needed{N:001}

JN3 1:8: RV JN3 1:8 · LV JN3 1:8 · Read together JN3 1:8

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8 We should be supporting believers like them so that we may also become their workmates in sharing the truth.

OET-LV JN3 1:8

8 Therefore we ought to _be _supporting the such men, in _order _that fellow-workers we _may _be _becoming with _the truth.

Sense 4: to suppose, to presume, to assume, to imagine, to believe, to think

Semantic entry: 31.29

Semantic domains: Hold a View, Believe, Trust

Subdomains: Suppose, Think Possible

Definition: to regard something as presumably true, but without particular certainty

Notes: In some languages the equivalent of ‘to suppose’ or ‘to presume’ is ‘to think somewhat’ or ‘to think perhaps’ or ‘to think a little.’ In some instances the lack of certainty is spelled out clearly as ‘to think, but not with certainty’ or ‘to think, but not to know’ or ‘to think, but not to be sure.’

LUK 7:43: RV LUK 7:43 · LV LUK 7:43 · Read together LUK 7:43

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43 “I suppose,” answered Shim’on, “that it was the one who was forgiven the biggest debt.”
¶ “You’re right,” said Yeshua.

OET-LV LUK 7:43

43 And Simōn answering said:
I _am _supposing that he to _whom he _forgave the more.
And he said to _him:
You _judged correctly.

ACT 2:15: RV ACT 2:15 · LV ACT 2:15 · Read together ACT 2:15

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15 This group isn’t drunk like you’re all thinking, because it’s still mid-morning,

OET-LV ACT 2:15

15 For/Because these are_ not _being _drunk as you _all are _supposing, because/for it _is the_ third _hour, of _the day,

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ὑπολαμβάνω

Form 1

Sense 1: to make ascend, to take up

Sense 2: to reply to respond

Sense 3: to help

Sense 4: to suppose, to presume, to assume, to imagine, to believe, to think