Thayer's Greek Lexicon

 1. to raise up, elevate, lift up
  1) to raise from the ground, take up: stones
  2) to raise upwards, elevate, lift up: the hand
  3) to draw up: a fish
2. to take upon one's self and carry what has been raised up, to bear
3. to bear away what has been raised, carry off
  1) to move from its place
  2) to take off or away what is attached to anything
  3) to remove
  4) to carry off, carry away with one
  5) to appropriate what is taken
  6) to take away from another what is his or what is committed
to him, to take by force
  7) to take and apply to any use
  8) to take from among the living, either by a natural death,
or by violence
  9) cause to cease