ἀναρπάζω

anarpazōVerbG6308

to kidnap

Full Lexicon Entry

1.to snatch up, (Iliad by Homer)
2.to snatch away, carry off, (Homer), etc.; of slave-dealers, to kidnap, (Odyssey by Homer):—;Pass., (Sophocles Tragicus): in Prose also, to be dragged before a magistrate, carried off to prison, Lat. rapi in jus, (Demosthenes Orator)
3.in good sense, to rescue, (Plutarch)
4.to take by storm, plunder, (Euripides); of persons, *ἀναρπασόμενος τοὺς Φωκέας *to take them by storm or at once, (Herdotus Historicus)
5.to carry off, steal, (Xenophon Historicus)

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