ἀναιρέω anairéō

Meaning

to take up, i.e. adopt; by implication, to take away (violently), i.e. abolish, murder

In the King James Version: put to death, kill, slay, take away, take up

Derivation: from G303 (ἀνά) and (the active of) G138 (αἱρέομαι);

Where it is used

• Matthew 2:16 When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.
• Luke 22:2 and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus to death, for they feared the people.
• Luke 23:32 Two others, who were criminals, were also led away to be executed with Jesus.
• Acts 2:23 He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
• Acts 5:33 When the Council members heard this, they were enraged, and they resolved to put the apostles to death.
• Acts 5:36 Some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing.
• Acts 7:21 When he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.
• Acts 7:28 Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
• Acts 9:23 After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,
• Acts 9:24 but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.
• Acts 9:29 He talked and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they tried to kill him.
• Acts 10:39 We are witnesses of all that He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And although they put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree,
• Acts 12:2 He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.
• Acts 13:28 And though they found no ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.
• Acts 16:27 When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, presuming that the prisoners had escaped.
• Acts 22:20 And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and watching over the garments of those who killed him.’
• Acts 23:15 Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”
• Acts 23:21 Do not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”
• Acts 23:27 This man was seized by the Jews, and they were about to kill him when I came with my troops to rescue him. For I had learned that he is a Roman citizen,
• Acts 25:3 to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
• Acts 26:10 And that is what I did in Jerusalem. With authority from the chief priests I put many of the saints in prison, and when they were condemned 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 slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
• Hebrews 10:9 Then He adds, “Here I am, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.