ἀποτρέχω
run away, depart
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀποτρέχω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 20 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 12:19 ἀποτρέχω Therefore did you say, She is my sister? and I took her for a wife to myself; and now, behold, your wife is before you, take her and go quickly away.
- Genesis 24:51 ἀποτρέχω Behold, Rebecca is before you, take her and go away, and let her be wife to the son of your master, as the Lord has said.
- Genesis 32:10 ἀποτρέχω Let there be to me a sufficiency of all the justice and all the truth which you have wrought with your servant; for with this my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two camps.
- Exodus 3:21 ἀποτρέχω And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and whenever you⌃ shall escape, you⌃ shall not depart empty.
- Exodus 10:24 ἀποτρέχω And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, saying, Go, serve the Lord your God, only leave your sheep and your oxen, and let your store depart with you.
- Exodus 21:5 ἀποτρέχω And if the servant should answer and say, I love my master and wife and children, I will not go away free;
- Exodus 21:7 ἀποτρέχω And if any one sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as the maidservants depart.
- Leviticus 25:41 ἀποτρέχω and he shall go out in the release, and his children with him; and he shall go to his family, he shall hasten back to his patrimony.
- Numbers 22:13 ἀποτρέχω And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balac, Depart quickly to your lord; God does not permit me to go with you.
- Numbers 24:14 ἀποτρέχω And now, behold, I return to my place; come, I will advise you of what this people shall do to your people in the last days.
- Joshua 23:14 ἀποτρέχω But I hasten to go the way of death, as all that are upon the earth also do: and you⌃ know in your heart and in your soul, that not one word has fallen to the ground of all the words which the Lord our God has spoken respecting all that concerns us; there has not one of them failed.
- 1 Samuel 8:22 ἀποτρέχω And the Lord said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and appoint them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel, Let each man depart to his city.
- 1 Kings 2:26 ἀποτρέχω And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Depart you quickly to Anathoth to your farm, for you are worthy of death this day; but I will not kill you, because you have borne the ark of the covenant of the Lord before my father, and because you were afflicted in all things wherein my father was afflicted.
- 1 Kings 12:16 ἀποτρέχω And all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them: and the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we any inheritance in the son of Jessae. Depart, O Israel, to your tents: now feed your own house, David. So Israel departed to his tents.
- 1 Kings 21:36 ἀποτρέχω And he said to him, Because you have not listened to the voice of the Lord, therefore, behold, as you depart from me, a lion shall strike you: and he departed from him, and a lion found him, and struck him.
- Esther 2:14 ἀποτρέχω She enters in the evening, and in the morning she departs to the second women's apartment, where Gai the king's chamberlain is keeper of the women: and she goes not in to the king again, unless she should be called by name.
- Jeremiah 41:21 ἀποτρέχω And I will give Sedekias king of Judea, and their princes, into the hands of their enemies, and the host of the king of Babylon shall come upon them that run away from them.
- Jeremiah 44:9 ἀποτρέχω For thus says the Lord; Suppose not in your hearts, saying, The Chaldeans will certainly depart from us: for they shall not depart.
- Jeremiah 47:5 ἀποτρέχω But if not, depart; return to Godolias the son of Achicam, the son of Saphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed governor in the land of Juda, and dwell with him in the midst of the people in the land of Juda: to whatever places it seems good in your eyes to go, do you even go. And the captain of the guard made him presents, and let him go.
- Daniel 12:9 ἀποτρέχω And he said, Go, Daniel: for the words are closed and sealed up to the time of the end.
About this word
About this word
ἀποτρέχω (apotréchō), “run away, depart,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 20 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →