ἀπαλλάσσω
to depart
also: to remove, release, to be removed fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
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).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Perfect, Passive, Infinitive 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G525 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 books. 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 1 verse
Acts 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
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.
απαλλασσω (apallássō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to depart.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 3 verses. It concentrates in Luke, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in Luke 12:58. Ranging over 2 senses, its meaning includes “to remove”, “release”, and “to be removed”. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G525 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.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 67%
- Gospels 1 verse · 33%
- Hebrews 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: Deliver 1×, Departed 1×, Thou mayest be delivered 1×
- American Standard Version: Be quit 1×, Might deliver 1×, Went out 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Free 1×, Reconcile 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be released 1×, Departed 1×, Might release 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G525 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G525 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G525 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G525 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 remove, release, to be removed, to depart
- to set free, deliver
Word origin
Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G525 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀπαλλάξῃ apalláxē | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Hebrews 2:15 | 1 |
| ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι apallássesthai | Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive | Acts 19:12 | 1 |
| ἀπηλλάχθαι apēlláchthai | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Infinitive | Luke 12:58 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G525, 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
- απαιρω apaírō G522 to take away
- απαιτεω apaitéō G523 to demand back
- απαλγεω apalgéō G524 to cease grieving
- 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 απαλλασσω appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 5 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 19:22 ἀποἀλλάσσω
- 1 Samuel 14:29 ἀποἀλλάσσω
- Job 3:10 ἀποἀλλάσσω
- Isaiah 10:7 ἀποἀλλάσσω
- Jeremiah 39:31 ἀποἀλλάσσω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G525) 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.
- Exodus 19:22 ἀποἀλλάσσω Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break forth on them."
- 1 Samuel 14:29 ἀποἀλλάσσω Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
- Job 3:10 ἀποἀλλάσσω Because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
- Job 7:15 ἀποἀλλάσσω So that my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones.
- Job 9:12 ἀποἀλλάσσω Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
- Job 9:34 ἀποἀλλάσσω Let him take his rod away from me, Let his terror not make me afraid:
- Job 10:19 ἀποἀλλάσσω I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Job 27:5 ἀποἀλλάσσω Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
- Job 34:5 ἀποἀλλάσσω For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
- Isaiah 10:7 ἀποἀλλάσσω However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
- Jeremiah 39:31 ἀποἀλλάσσω
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G525) 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.
