metalambanō (to partake)

Meaning

Usually translated “partake”, “were partaking” and “having found”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

to partake 3
they were partaking 1
having found 1
partakes 1
to share 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Acts 4
Hebrews 2
2 Timothy 1

3 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Acts 24:25And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Acts 27:33And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
Acts 27:34Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
2 Timothy 2:6The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
Hebrews 6:7For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
Hebrews 12:10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

Greek dictionary

μεταλαμβάνω metalambanō · to partake

μετα-λαμξάνω [in LXX: Est.5:1, Wis.18:9; 4Ma.12:1-19 * ;] to have or get a share of, partake of: with genitive of thing(s), 2Ti.2:6, Heb.6:7 12:10; τροφῆς, Act.2:46 27:33-34; with accusative of thing(s) (of the whole), to get: καιρόν, Act.24:25 (see Bl., § 36, 1; MM, xvi).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “partake” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

PARTA'KE, verb intransitive

preterit tense partook; participle passive partaken. [part and take.]

To take a part, portion or share in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; usually followed by of, sometimes less properly by in.
To have something of the property, nature, claim or right.
To be admitted; not to be excluded.

All definitions and other forms of “partake”

PARTA'KE, verb transitive

To have a part in; to share.

To admit to a part. [Not used.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.