What original word was used for "ascension"?

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When Jesus “ascended”, He was actually taken “out of view”; I know “up into the clouds”. How did this happen? Did He simply turn and walk away and fade into a “cloud” that was actually stepping into the dimension of Paradise? Does anyone know the actual word that was used (on multiple occasions in the NT) to describe “ascension” and what that word actually translates as? Thank you.
 
from Acts I

9 καὶ ταῦτα εἰπὼν βλεπόντων αὐτῶν ἐπήρθη, καὶ νεφέλη ὑπέλαβεν αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτῶν. 10 καὶ ὡς ἀτενίζοντες ἦσαν εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν πορευομένου αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἄνδρες δύο παρειστήκεισαν αὐτοῖς ἐν ἐσθήσεσι λευκαῖς, 11 οἳ καὶ εἶπαν: ἄνδρες Γαλιλαῖοι, τί ἑστήκατε ἐμβλέποντες εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν; οὗτος ὁ Ἰησοῦς ὁ ἀναλημφθεὶς ἀφ’ ὑμῶν εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν οὕτως ἐλεύσεται ὃν τρόπον ἐθεάσασθε αὐτὸν πορευόμενον εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν.

9 Et cum hæc dixisset, videntibus illis, elevatus est: et nubes suscepit eum ab oculis eorum. 10 Cumque intuerentur in cælum euntem illum, ecce duo viri astiterunt juxta illos in vestibus albis, 11 qui et dixerunt: Viri Galilæi, quid statis aspicientes in cælum? Hic Jesus, qui **assumptus est **a vobis in cælum, sic veniet quemadmodum vidistis eum euntem in cælum.

9 When he had said this, they saw him lifted up, and a cloud caught him away from their sight.[2] 10 And as they strained their eyes towards heaven, to watch his journey, all at once two men in white garments were standing at their side. 11 Men of Galilee, they said, why do you stand here looking heavenwards? He who has been taken from you into heaven, this same Jesus, will come back in the same fashion, just as you have watched him going into heaven.
 
When Jesus “ascended”, He was actually taken “out of view”; I know “up into the clouds”. How did this happen? Did He simply turn and walk away and fade into a “cloud” that was actually stepping into the dimension of Paradise? Does anyone know the actual word that was used (on multiple occasions in the NT) to describe “ascension” and what that word actually translates as? Thank you.
Acts 1:9 And when he had said this, as they were looking on, he was** lifted up**, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, …

The Greek word “ἐπήρθη” means lift up/elevate. That is the word used in Acts 1:9.

There is a different Greek word (ανεβείτε) which the English translates as “ascend”. Forms of this word are used for ascended/ascending. Here are some instances where it is occurs in connection with Our Lord:
John 3:13; 6:62; 20:17
Eph 4:8-10
 
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