Word 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.)