anapherō · take up, offer

What it means

anapherō (ἀναφέρω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “take up, offer”.

Take up, lead up; also offer on the altar; bear.

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 bring someone up to a high place, like a mountain or heaven.
2. To present a sacrifice on the altar.
3. To carry the sins of others.

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

How it is translated

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

• leads up ×2
• offer up ×2
• when he offered up ×2
• bear ×1
• bore ×1
• offer ×1
• was carried up ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Luke×1
• Hebrews×4
• James×1
• 1 Peter×2

• Matthew 17:1

  And after six days Jesus takes along Peter and James and John his brother, and leads them up onto a high mountain by themselves.

• Mark 9:2

  And after six days Jesus takes along Peter and James and John, and leads them up onto a high mountain by themselves alone. And he was transfigured before them,

• Luke 24:51

  And it happened, while he was blessing them, that he parted from them and was carried up into heaven.

• Hebrews 7:27

  who does not have the need every day, as those high priests do, to offer up sacrifices first for his own sins, then for those of the people; for he did this once for all when he offered up himself.

• Hebrews 9:28

  so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await him, for salvation.

• Hebrews 13:15

  Through him, then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.

• James 2:21

  Was not Abraham our father declared righteous by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

• 1 Peter 2:5

  you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus the Messiah.

• 1 Peter 2:24

  who himself bore our sins in his body on the wooden beam, so that having died to sins we might live to righteousness; by whose wound you were healed.

And 1 more times.