αἴρω

αἴρω,

[in LXX chiefly for נשׂא, also for לקח, etc. ;]

1. to raise, take up, lift or draw up: Joh 8,59; 11,41, ApG 27,17, al.

2. to bear, carry: Matt 4,6; 16,24, al.

3. to bear or take away, carry off, remove: Matt 21,21, Joh 19,31, 1 Kor 5,12; 6,15 (see Lft., Notes, 216), al.; of the taking away sin by Christ, Joh 1,29, 1 Joh 3,5. (Cf. ἀπ᾽, ἐξ-, ἐπ-, μετ-, συν-, ὑπερ-αίρω). For exx. from π., see MM, VGT, see word)