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Matthew 26:55 συλλαβεῖν to capture

At that time Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would an outlaw? Every day I sat teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me.

Here: 'To take hold of, capture'. It is used for catching a fugitive or prisoner. A single decisive action is in view.

Mark 14:48 συλλαβεῖν to capture

Jesus asked the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would an outlaw?

Luke 1:24 συνέλαβεν conceived

After these days, his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. She declared,

Here: The normal Greek (and Greek Old Testament) word for becoming pregnant. It is a single completed act: she conceived. The verb gives the barest fact that the angel's word in 1:13 came true.

Luke 1:31 συλλήμψῃ you will conceive

Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus.

Here: "You will conceive." The verb's basic sense is "take together, seize"; in this form it is the ordinary word for becoming pregnant. It is future tense: at the moment of speaking, the conception has not yet happened. Verses 34–35 take up how it will.

Luke 1:36 συνείληφεν has conceived

Look, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.

Here: A perfect tense: a past act whose result is still in place. She conceived and is pregnant now. The same verb was used of Elizabeth in 1:24 and of Mary in 1:31.

Luke 2:21 συλλημφθῆναι conceiving

When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived.

Here: 'To be conceived'. It is the same verb Gabriel used to Mary in 1:31 ('you will conceive') and that Luke used of Elizabeth (1:24, 36).

Luke 5:7 συλλαβέσθαι to help

So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

Luke 5:9 συνέλαβον, they had taken,

For he and his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken,

Luke 22:54 Συλλαβόντες Having seized

Then they seized Jesus, led Him away, and took Him into the house of the high priest. And Peter followed at a distance.

John 18:12 συνέλαβον took hold of

Then the band of soldiers, with its commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him.

Here: 'They seized/arrested.' The verb is aorist (a single completed action) and its subject is the whole combined party. It is the usual word for taking a prisoner into custody (compare Acts 1:16; 12:3).

Acts 1:16 συλλαβοῦσιν having arrested

“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.

Here: "Took hold of" in the sense of arrest. It is the same verb Luke uses for the arrest in Gethsemane (Luke 22:54).

Acts 12:3 συλλαβεῖν to take

And seeing that this pleased the Jews, Herod proceeded to seize Peter during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Here: To take someone into custody. It is the same verb Luke uses for the arrest of Jesus (Luke 22:54), which quietly sets Peter's story beside his Lord's.

Acts 23:27 συλλημφθέντα having been seized

This man was seized by the Jews, and they were about to kill him when I came with my troops to rescue him. For I had learned that he is a Roman citizen,

Here: "Having been seized". This is the ordinary word for laying hands on someone and taking him into custody. Lysias uses it of what the Jewish crowd did, which casts them as the ones acting outside the law.

Acts 26:21 συλλαβόμενοι having seized

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

Here: An aorist participle, meaning a single completed act: 'having grabbed hold of me.' It is the ordinary word for seizing or arresting someone, and here it describes a mob grabbing him, not a lawful arrest.

Philippians 4:3 συλλαμβάνου do yourself help

Yes, and I ask you, my true yokefellow, to help these women who have contended at my side for the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

Here: In the middle voice with a dative it means 'lend a hand, join in the work alongside'. The present imperative suggests ongoing help: 'keep helping them'. The help in view is getting the two women to agreement.

James 1:15 συλλαβοῦσα having conceived

Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

Here: "Having conceived," the ordinary word for a woman becoming pregnant (as in Luke 1:24, 31). The picture is of a union: desire is joined by the person's consent, and something new is begun.