ἀπαίρω
to take away
‘to take away’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G522 appears in the Book of Luke — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
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.
απαιρω (apaírō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to take away.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 3 verses. Matthew dominates its distribution — 1 of 3 verses. It first appears in Matthew 9:15. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G522 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
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 3 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 33%
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: Shall be taken away 2×
- American Standard Version: Shall be taken away 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Will be taken 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Will be taken away 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G522 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G522 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G522 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G522 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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.
- to lift off, take or carry away
- to be taken away from anyone
Word origin
Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G522, 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
- απαγγελλω apangéllō G518 to report
- απαγχομαι apánchomai G519 to strangle
- απαγω apágō G520 to lead away
- απαιτεω apaitéō G523 to demand back
- απαλγεω apalgéō G524 to cease grieving
- απαλλασσω apallássō G525 to depart
- απαλλοτριοω apallotrióō G526 to estrange
- απανταω apantáō G528 to meet
- απαρνεομαι aparnéomai G533 to deny
- απαρτι apárti G534 henceforth
- απαρχη aparchḗ G536 to offer firstfruits
- απαυγασμα apaúgasma G541 brightness
- απειδω apeídō G542 to look away
- απειμι ápeimi G548 to depart
- απειμι ápeimi G549 to depart
- απειπομην apeipómēn G550 to declare
- απεκδεχομαι apekdéchomai G553 waiting for
- απεκδυομαι apekdýomai G554 to despoil
- απελαυνω apelaúnō G556 to drive away
- απελεγμος apelegmós G557 censure
- απελευθερος apeleútheros G558 freedman
- απελπιζω apelpízō G560 not despairing
- απεναντι apénanti G561 opposite
- απερχομαι apérchomai G565 to depart
+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 απαιρω appears 90 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 89 verses in 11 books.
- 90
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 89
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 12:9 ἀποαἴρω
- Exodus 12:37 ἀποαἴρω
- Numbers 9:17 ἀποαἴρω
- Deuteronomy 1:7 ἀποαἴρω
- Joshua 3:1 ἀποαἴρω
- Judges 5:4 ἀποαἴρω
- 1 Kings 21:9 ἀποαἴρω
- 2 Kings 3:27 ἀποαἴρω
- Psalms 77:26 ἀποαἴρω
- Ezekiel 10:4 ἀποαἴρω
- Nahum 3:18 ἀποαἴρω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G522) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 89. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 12:9 ἀποαἴρω Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.
- Genesis 13:11 ἀποαἴρω So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
- Genesis 26:21 ἀποαἴρω They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called the name of it Sitnah.
- Genesis 26:22 ἀποαἴρω He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
- Genesis 33:12 ἀποαἴρω Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."
- Genesis 33:17 ἀποαἴρω Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
- Genesis 35:16 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
- Genesis 37:17 ἀποαἴρω The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
- Genesis 46:1 ἀποαἴρω Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
- Exodus 12:37 ἀποαἴρω The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.
- Exodus 16:1 ἀποαἴρω They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 17:1 ἀποαἴρω All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
- Numbers 9:17 ἀποαἴρω Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.
- Numbers 9:18 ἀποαἴρω At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.
- Numbers 9:20 ἀποαἴρω Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled.
- Numbers 9:21 ἀποαἴρω Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled: or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.
- Numbers 9:22 ἀποαἴρω Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn't travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled.
- Numbers 9:23 ἀποαἴρω At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh they traveled. They kept the charge of Yahweh, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
- Numbers 14:25 ἀποαἴρω Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
- Numbers 20:22 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
- Numbers 21:4 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
- Numbers 21:10 ἀποαἴρω The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.
- Numbers 21:12 ἀποαἴρω From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
- Numbers 21:13 ἀποαἴρω From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
- Numbers 22:1 ἀποαἴρω The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
- Numbers 33:3 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,
- Numbers 33:5 ἀποαἴρω The children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.
- Numbers 33:6 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
- Numbers 33:7 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon: and they encamped before Migdol.
- Numbers 33:8 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
- Numbers 33:9 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there.
- Numbers 33:10 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
- Numbers 33:11 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
- Numbers 33:12 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
- Numbers 33:13 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
- Numbers 33:14 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
- Numbers 33:15 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 33:16 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth-hattaavah.
- Numbers 33:17 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth.
- Numbers 33:18 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
- Numbers 33:19 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez.
- Numbers 33:20 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah.
- Numbers 33:21 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.
- Numbers 33:22 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.
- Numbers 33:23 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount Shepher.
- Numbers 33:24 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah.
- Numbers 33:25 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.
- Numbers 33:26 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath.
- Numbers 33:27 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Tahath, and encamped in Terah.
- Numbers 33:28 ἀποαἴρω They traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G522) 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.
