Bible word study

Airo (Strong’s G142): Meaning in the Bible

Airo (αἴρω) is the Greek word numbered G142 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to lift up; by implication, to take up or away; figuratively, to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind), specially, to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Hebraism (compare H5375) to expiate sin. In the King James Bible it is translated away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose.

• Original wordαἴρω
• Transliterationaírō
• Pronunciationah'-ee-ro
• Strong’s numberG142
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primary root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Airo appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Airo (G142) stands behind 111 English renderings in 98 verses across 10 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in John (28), Matthew (23), Luke (22).

How the King James Bible renders Airo, by count

• up19 of 111 (17 percent)
• away15 of 111 (14 percent)
• take10 of 111 (9 percent)
• take up10 of 111 (9 percent)
• took5 of 111 (5 percent)
• with5 of 111 (5 percent)

Three places to read Airo

• Matthew 4:6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
• Mark 8:20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
• John 5:10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Airo in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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