anaireō · take away, kill

What it means

anaireō (ἀναιρέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “take away, kill”.

Take away, do away with; kill. Also take up, adopt.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To end someone's life, to do away with them.
2. To remove something to put something else.
3. To take someone in, like Moses.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• kill ×9
• killed ×4
• he killed ×2
• you killed ×2
• He abolishes ×1
• be executed ×1
• be put to death ×1
• they might put to death ×1
• those who were killing ×1
• took up ×1
• others ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Luke×2
• Acts×19
• 2 Thessalonians×1
• Hebrews×1

• Matthew 2:16

  Then Herod, seeing that he had been tricked by the magi, was greatly enraged, and sending men, he killed all the children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time that he had learned precisely from the magi.

• Luke 22:2

  And the high priests and the scribes were seeking how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

• Luke 23:32

  And two others, criminals, were also being led with him to be put to death.

• Acts 2:23

  this man, handed over by the determined plan and foreknowledge of God, you killed by nailing him to a cross by the hand of lawless men.

• Acts 5:33

  And when they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them.

• Acts 5:36

  For before these days Theudas rose up, claiming himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves; he was killed, and all who obeyed him were dispersed and came to nothing.

• Acts 7:21

  And when he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and brought him up as her own son.

• Acts 7:28

  You do not want to kill me the way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’

• Acts 9:23

  Now when many days had passed, the Jews plotted together to kill him;

• Acts 9:24

  but their plot became known to Saul. And they were even watching the gates day and night so that they might kill him;

• Acts 9:29

  And he was speaking and debating with the Hellenists; but they were attempting to kill him.

• Acts 10:39

  And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; him they even killed by hanging him on a wooden beam.

• Acts 12:2

  And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

• Acts 13:28

  And though they found no cause for death, they asked Pilate that he be executed.

• Acts 16:27

  And the jailer, waking up and seeing the doors of the prison opened, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

• Acts 22:20

  And when the blood of Stephen, your witness, was being shed, I also was standing by and approving and guarding the garments of those who were killing him.’

• Acts 23:15

  Now therefore you, together with the council, notify the commander so that he may bring down him to you, as though you were going to determine more exactly the things about him; and we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

• Acts 23:21

  So you must not be persuaded by them, for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him; and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from you.”

• Acts 23:27

  This man, seized by the Jews and about to be killed by them, coming on them with the troops, I rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman.

• Acts 25:3

  asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem —while preparing an ambush to kill him on the way.

• Acts 26:10

  which I also did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints I shut up in prisons, having received the authority from the chief priests, and when they were being put to death I cast my vote against them.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:8

  And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the radiance of his coming,

• Hebrews 10:9

  then he has said: Look, I have come to do your will. He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.

And 1 more times.