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ἀπάγω

to lead away

G520 Strong's Greek
apágō Transliteration
/ap-ag'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 15 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

“to lead away” is the headline sense of the Greek verb απαγω (apágō). First canonically at Matthew 7:13, it enters the text early. It appears 15 verses across 5 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Matthew. Related forms include απο, απαγγελλω and απαγχομαι. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
bring
Modern gloss
to lead away
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G520 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

15
distinct verses
The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
5 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 7:13
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 7:13.
1 Corinthians 12:2
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Corinthians 12:2.
#768
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 12 · 80%
  • Acts 2 · 13%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 7%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 15 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 12 verses · 80%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 40%
  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 7%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Away 5×, Led 3×, Lead him away 2×
  • American Standard Version: Away 8×, Led 5×, Lead 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Led away 3×, Leads 2×, They led 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Away 7×, Led 4×, They led 4×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G520 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Away” 5×
  • “Led” 3×
  • “Lead him away” 2×
  • “Leadeth” 2×
  • “Led him away” 2×
  • “They led” 2×

Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G520 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Away” 8×
  • “Led” 5×
  • “Lead” 2×
  • “Leadeth” 2×
  • “They led” 2×

Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G520 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Led away” 3×
  • “Leads” 2×
  • “They led” 2×

Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G520 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Away” 7×
  • “Led” 4×
  • “They led” 4×
  • “Is leading” 2×

Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. esp. of those who are led off to trial, prison, or punishment

Word origin

Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.

Part of speech: Verb

From G575 and G71 ; to take off (in various senses): - bring carry away lead (away) put to death take away.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 8 distinct written forms G520 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἀπήγαγον apḗgagon Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 26:57 7
ἀπάγουσα apágousa Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 7:13 2
ἀπάγετε apágete Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Mark 14:44 1
ἀπαγαγὼν apagagṑn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 13:15 1
ἀπαγομένους apagoménous Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Luke 21:12 1
ἀπαγόμενοι apagómenoi Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 Corinthians 12:2 1
ἀπαχθῆναι apachthē̂nai Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive Acts 12:19 1
ἄπαγε ápage Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Acts 23:17 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G520, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

+85 more words share this root (not shown).

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 111 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word απαγω appears 32 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 31 verses in 13 books.

32
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
31
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
13 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G520) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G520) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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