'Taken' in the Bible

For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:

My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

For if you give a blessing with the spirit, how will the man who has no knowledge say, So be it, after your prayer, seeing that he has not taken in what you are saying?

And in the same way as we have taken on us the image of the man from the earth, so we will take on us the image of the one from heaven.

But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.