κατα-λαμβάνω [in LXX for נָשַׂג hi., לָכַד, etc. ;] 1. to lap hold of, seize, appropriate: Mrk.9:18; with accusative of thing(s), 1Co.9:24, Php.3:12-13 2. to overtake: as carrel, of διώκω (Field, Notes, 158 f.), Rom.9:30; ἡ ἡμέρα, 1Th.5:4; of evils, Jhn.1:5 12:35 (cf. 617 T); hence, to surprise, discover: Jhn.8:3-4], 3. Of mental action, to apprehend, comprehend; so mid., in NT (M, Pr., 158): Eph.3:18; before ὅτι, Act.4:13 10:34; with accusative and inf., Act.25:25 (MM, Exp., xv).† (AS)
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G2638 — καταλαμβάνω
katalambanō · to grasp · Greek
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Mark 9:18 · καταλάβῃ,and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”John 1:5 · κατέλαβεν.¶The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.John 12:35 · καταλάβῃ·Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.Acts 4:13 · καταλαβόμενοιNow when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.Acts 10:34 · καταλαμβάνομαιPeter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;Acts 25:25 · κατελαβόμηνBut when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him.Romans 9:30 · κατέλαβενWhat shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;1 Corinthians 9:24 · καταλάβητε.Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.Ephesians 3:18 · καταλαβέσθαιmay be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,Philippians 3:12 · καταλάβω · κατελήμφθηνNot that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.Philippians 3:13 · κατειληφέναι·Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,1 Thessalonians 5:4 · καταλάβῃ·But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.