to take
paralambano denotes taking people along or into one’s company, and also receiving what is handed on.
The dominant use concerns taking persons along, aside, or into one’s company in actions of travel, instruction, custody, or care. A further cluster concerns receiving a message, tradition, service, Christ, or a kingdom; a smaller passive use depicts one person being taken while another is left.
Senses in use
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Taking persons along or into one’s company · dominant
Active forms regularly introduce a person or group being brought along for a following action: in Acts 21:26 the aorist participle precedes Paul’s purification with the men, and in Mark 10:32 it precedes his speaking privately to the twelve. The same pattern appears when Joseph takes the child and his mother to Egypt in Matthew 2:14, when Jesus takes selected disciples up a mountain in Mark 9:2, and when the centurion takes the young man to the military officer in Acts 23:18; in these verses the APB renders the action with forms of “took.”
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Receiving what is communicated or entrusted · common
The aorist active forms describe receiving content or a responsibility passed on by another: in 1 Corinthians 11:23, the speaker received from the Lord what he then delivered, while 2 Thessalonians 3:6 refers to a tradition received from the speakers. In Colossians 4:17, Archippus has received a service, and Hebrews 12:28 speaks of receiving an unshakable kingdom; the APB uses “received” or “receiving” in these clauses.
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Being taken rather than left · rare
Future passive forms mark a person as the one taken in a paired contrast. In Luke 17:34 and Luke 17:35, one of two people in the same setting will be taken while the other is left; Matthew 24:40 and Matthew 24:41 present the same contrast, rendered by the APB as “one is taken.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly uses “took” for actions involving persons and “received” for messages, traditions, and entrusted matters; it also uses “taken” in the passive contrasts. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the clauses’ presentation without fixing every English equivalent.