“to lift, literally or figuratively (endure, declare, sustain, receive, etc.)”
Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong’s Definition
to lift, literally or figuratively (endure, declare, sustain, receive, etc.)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
pr. to lift, raise, bear aloft; to bear, carry in the hands or about the person; carry as a message, Acts 9:15; to take away, remove, Mt. 8:17; Jn. 20:15; to take up, Jn. 10:31; Lk. 14:27; to bear as a burden endure, suffer; to sustain, Rom. 11:18; to bear with, tolerate; to sustain mentally, comprehend, Jn. 16:12
Translated in KJV as
Etymology
perhaps remotely derived from the base of G939 (βάσις) (through the idea of removal);
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