λαμβάνω
Etym. from Root ΛΑΒ
The orig. sense of the word is two-fold, one (more active) "to take", and the other (more passive) "to receive"
I. "to take":
1. "to take hold of, grasp, seize", Hom., etc.; the part "seized" in gen., the "whole" in acc., τὴν πτέρυγος λάβεν "caught" her "by" the wing, Il.; γούνων λάβε κούρην Od., etc.:—then, with gen. of "part" only, ποδῶν, γούνων, κόρυθος λάβεν "took hold of" the feet, etc., Il.
2. "to take by violence, seize, carry off as prize or booty", Hom.
3. λ. δίκην, ποινάς, Lat. sumere poenas, to exact punishment, Eur., etc.; v. infr. II. 3.
4. of passions, feelings, etc., "to seize", Hom., etc.; of fever and sudden illnesses, "to attack", Hdt., attic
5. of a deity, "to seize, possess", τινά Hdt.: of darkness, and the like, "to occupy, possess", Aesch.
6. "to catch, come upon, overtake", as an enemy, Hom., Hdt.: "to catch, find, come upon", λ. τινὰ μοῦνον Hdt., etc.: also, "to catch, find out, detect", Lat. deprehendo, id=Hdt.: so Pass., ἐπ᾽ αὐτοφώρωι εἰλημμένος "caught" in the act, Ar.
7. λ. τινὰ ὁρκίοισι "to bind" him by oaths, Hdt.
8. "to take as" an assistant, Soph.
9. τὴν Ἴδην λαβὼν ἐς ἀριστερὴν χέρα "taking, keeping" Ida to your left; so, λ. ἐν δεξιᾶι Thuc.
10. λ. Ἑλληνίδα ἐσθῆτα "to assume" it, Hdt.
11. "to apprehend by the senses", Soph., Plat.:— "to seize with the mind, apprehend, comprehend", Hdt., etc.:— "to take", i. e. "understand", a thing "so and so", e. g. a passage of an author, Lat. accipere, Hdt., Thuc., etc.
12. "to take in hand, undertake", Hdt.
13. the part. λαβών is almost pleon., as, λαβὼν κύσε χεῖρα "took and" kissed, Od.; so in attic
II. "to receive":
1. "to have given one, to get, gain, win", Hom., etc.:—also in bad sense, λ. ὄνειδος Soph.; θάνατον Eur., etc.
2. "to receive in marriage", Hdt., Xen.
3. λ. δίκην "to receive", i. e. "suffer", punishment, as we say, "to catch it", Lat. dare poenas, Hdt., Eur.: —an unusual sense, v. supr. I. 2.
4. λ. ὅρκον "to accept" an oath as a test, Arist.; λ. λόγον "to demand" an account, Xen.
5. "to conceive", Aesch.
6. "to receive as produce or profit", Ar., Plat.; "to purchase" Ar.
7. "to admit of", Pind.
8. of persons subject to feelings, passions, and the like, λ. θυμόν "to take" heart, Od.; so, periphr., λ. φόβον ῀ φοβεῖσθαι, Soph., etc.; so, λ. ὕψος ῀ ὑψοῦσθαι, Thuc.; λ. νόσον (as we say) ""to take" a cold, " Plat.; so, αἱ οἰκίαι ἐπάλξεις λαμβάνουσαι "receiving" battlements, "having" battlements "added", Thuc.
B. Mid. "to take hold of, lay hold on", c. gen., σχεδίης Od., Hdt., etc.
2. of place, λ. τῶν ὀρῶν "to take to" the mountains, "reach, gain" them, Thuc.