Lexical Summary anairesis: a taking up, a destroying, slaying Original Word: ἀναίρεσιςTransliteration: anairesis Phonetic Spelling: (an-ah'-ee-res-is) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a taking up, a destroying, slaying Meaning: a taking up, a destroying, slaying Strong's Concordance murder, death. From anaireo; (the act of) killing -- death. see GREEK anaireo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 336: ἀναίρεσιςἀναίρεσις, (εως, ἡ (from ἀναιρέω, 2, which see), a destroying, killing, murder, 'taking off': Acts 8:1; Acts 22:20 Rec. (the Sept. only in Numbers 11:15; Judges 15:17; Judith 15:4; 2 Macc. 5:13. Xenophon, Hell. 6, 3, 5; Herodian, 2, 13, 1.) |