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RECEIVE, RECEIVING
A. Verbs.
1.
(
1
, 2983) denotes either “to take” or “to receive,” (I) literally, (a)
without an object, in contrast to asking, e.g., Matt. 7:8; Mark 11:24,
RV
, “have received”
(the original has no object); (b) in contrast to giving, e.g., Matt. 10:8; Acts 20:35; (c) with
objects, whether things, e.g., Mark 10:30; Luke 18:30, in the best mss. (some have No.
4); John 13:30; Acts 9:19,
RV
, “took” (
KJV
, “received”); 1 Cor. 9:25,
RV
, “receive” (
KJV
,
“obtain”); or persons, e.g., John 6:21; 13:20; 16:14,
RV
, “take”; 2 John 10; in Mark 14:65,
RV
, “received (Him with blows of their hands)”; this has been styled a vulgarism; (II),
metaphorically, of the word of God, Matt. 13:20; Mark 4:16; the sayings of Christ, John
12:48; the witness of Christ, John 3:11; a hundredfold in this life, and eternal life in the
world to come, Mark 10:30; mercy, Heb. 4:16,
RV
, “may receive” (
KJV
, “may obtain”); a
person (
, see
FACE
), Luke 20:21, “acceptest,” and Gal. 2:6, “accepteth,” an
expression used in the OT either in the sense of being gracious or kind to a person, e.g.,
Gen. 19:21; 32:20, or (negatively) in the sense of being impartial, e.g., Lev. 19:15; Deut.
10:17; this latter is the meaning in the two NT passages just mentioned. See
ACCEPT
, A,
No. 4,
TAKE
, etc.
6
and
are combined in the nouns
, “respect of
persons,” and
, “respecter of persons,” and in the verb
, “to
have respect of persons”: see
PERSON
.
2.
(
$
1
, 3880), “to receive from another” (
, “from
beside”), or “to take,” signifies “to receive,” e.g., in Mark 7:4; John 1:11; 14:3; 1 Cor.
11:23; 15:1, 3; Gal. 1:9, 12; Phil. 4:9; Col. 2:6; 4:17; 1 Thess. 2:13 (1st part); 4:1; 2
Thess. 3:6; Heb. 12:28. See
TAKE
.
3.
(
1
, 353), “to take up” ( ), “to take to oneself, receive,”
is rendered “to receive” in Mark 16:19; Acts 1:2, 11, 22,
RV
, “He was received up” (
KJV
,
“taken”); 10:16; 1 Tim. 3:16. See
TAKE
.
4.
(
1
, 618) signifies “to receive from another,” (a) to
“receive” as one’s due (for Luke 18:30, see No. 1); Luke 23:41; Rom. 1:27; Col. 3:24; 2
John 8; (b) without the indication of what is due, Luke 16:25; Gal. 4:5 (in some mss. 3
John 8, for No. 7); (c) to receive back, Luke 6:34 (twice); 15:27. For its other meaning,
“to take apart,” Mark 7:33, see
TAKE
.¶
5.
(
$
1
, 4355) denotes “to take to oneself” (
, “to”) or “to
receive,” always in the middle voice, signifying a special interest on the part of the
receiver, suggesting a welcome, Acts 28:2; Rom. 14:1, 3; 15:7; Philem. 12 (in some mss.;
the best omit it); v. 17. See
TAKE
.
6.
(
1
, 3335), “to have or get a share of, partake of” (
,
with), is rendered “receiveth” in Heb. 6:7. See
EAT
,
HAVE
,
PARTAKE
,
TAKE
. In the Sept.,
Esth. 5:1.¶
7.
$
(
%
1
, 5274), “to take or bear up” (
$
, “under”), “to
receive,” is rendered “received” in Acts 1:9, of the cloud at the Ascension; in 3 John 8,
RV
, “welcome” (
KJV
, “receive”). See
ANSWER
, B, No. 3,
SUPPOSE
,
WELCOME
.