to take out/select
Exaireo denotes bringing someone out of danger or removal, including the commanded removal of an offending eye.
Its dominant attested use is bringing people out from danger, oppression, hostile hands, or the present evil age; in two sayings it denotes removing an eye and casting it away. The supplied forms occur in aorist middle clauses of rescue, a present middle participial promise of deliverance, and direct second-person active commands of removal.
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Bringing someone out of danger or hostile power · dominant
In Acts 12:11 the third-person aorist middle form occurs in Peter's statement after he is rescued from Herod's hand; in Acts 23:27 the first-person aorist middle form follows the intervention that saves a man from being killed. Acts 7:10 and Acts 7:34 place aorist middle forms in accounts of rescue from afflictions and oppression, while Acts 26:17 and Galatians 1:4 describe deliverance from people, Gentiles, and the present evil age.
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Removing an offending body part · occasional
In Matthew 18:9 the second-person aorist active form commands taking out an eye that causes stumbling and throwing it away. Matthew 5:29 likewise places the form in the command to remove the right eye and cast it away.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the rescue contexts with “rescued” and “deliver,” while the two eye sayings use “take it out” and “remove it.” These are renderings of whole clauses of the lemma.