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ἀπέρχομαι

to depart

‘to depart’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓

G565 Strong's Greek
apérchomai Transliteration
/ap-erkh'-om-ahee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 117 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 depart” is the headline sense of the Greek verb απερχομαι (apérchomai). Where the King James Version says “went,” newer translations reach for “having gone away” (unfoldingWord Literal Text); the renderings breakdown has the detail. The Greek New Testament uses it across 116 verses — common. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Matthew. Catalogued under 4 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 116-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
come
Modern gloss
to depart
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 G565 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 →

116
distinct verses
The word appears in 116 distinct verses.
10 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:22
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:22.
Revelation 21:4
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:4.
#140
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 116 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 98 · 84%
  • Acts 6 · 5%
  • Pauline Epistles 2 · 2%
  • General Epistles 2 · 2%
  • Revelation 8 · 7%

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 116 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 98 verses · 84%
  • Johannine 28 verses · 24%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 26 verses · 22%
  • Revelation 8 verses · 7%
  • Pauline corpus 2 verses · 2%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 2%

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: Went 22×, Departed 15×, Go 10×
  • American Standard Version: Went 16×, Departed 12×, Go 11×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Went 17×, Go 11×, Went away 11×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having gone away 17×, Went away 16×, He went away 11×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G565 across 122 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Went” 22×
  • “Departed” 15×
  • “Go” 10×
  • “Depart” 4×
  • “He departed” 4×
  • “Went away” 4×
  • “He went away” 3×
  • “He went his way” 3×
  • “I went” 3×
  • “They may go” 3×
  • “Went their way” 3×
  • “Went their ways” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 20 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 G565 across 120 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Went” 16×
  • “Departed” 12×
  • “Go” 11×
  • “Went away” 11×
  • “He went” 7×
  • “He went away” 7×
  • “Depart” 4×
  • “He departed” 4×
  • “Away” 3×
  • “I went” 3×
  • “They went” 3×
  • “Go away” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 31 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 G565 across 114 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Went” 17×
  • “Go” 11×
  • “Went away” 11×
  • “He went away” 7×
  • “He went” 3×
  • “I went” 3×
  • “Left” 3×
  • “They went” 3×
  • “Crossed” 2×
  • “Depart” 2×
  • “Had gone” 2×
  • “Had left” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 34 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G565 across 126 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Having gone away” 17×
  • “Went away” 16×
  • “He went away” 11×
  • “Go” 9×
  • “Go away” 7×
  • “They went away” 6×
  • “Had gone away” 4×
  • “Depart” 3×
  • “Departed” 3×
  • “Went” 3×
  • “Do” 2×
  • “Going away” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 25 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 4 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.

  1. to go away in order to follow any one, go after him, to follow his party, follow him as a leader
  2. of departing evils and sufferings
  3. of good things taken away from one
  4. of an evanescent state of things

Word origin

Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 13:15,3

From G575 and G2064 ; to go off (that is depart ) aside (that is apart ) or behind (that is follow ) literally or figuratively : - come depart go (aside away back out... ways) pass away be past.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 25 distinct written forms G565 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἀπῆλθεν apē̂lthen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 4:24 38
ἀπῆλθον apē̂lthon Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 8:32 17
ἀπελθὼν apelthṑn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 13:46 16
ἀπελθεῖν apeltheîn Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Matthew 2:22 11
ἀπελθόντες apelthóntes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 8:33 9
ἀπῆλθαν apē̂lthan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 22:22 3
ἀπέλθητε apélthēte Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 10:5 2
ἀπέλθω apélthō Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular John 16:7 2
ἀπέρχῃ apérchē Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 8:19 2
ἀπελθοῦσαι apelthoûsai Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 28:8 2
ἀπέλθωσιν apélthōsin Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 28:10 1
ἀπέλθῃ apélthē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 5:30 1
ἀπέρχεσθαι apérchesthai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Infinitive Acts 23:32 1
ἀπελήλυθεν apelḗlythen Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular James 1:24 1
ἀπελευσόμεθα apeleusómetha Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Plural John 6:68 1
ἀπελεύσομαι apeleúsomai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Romans 15:28 1
ἀπελεύσονται apeleúsontai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 25:46 1
ἀπεληλύθεισαν apelēlýtheisan Verb, Pluperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural John 4:8 1
ἀπελθοῦσα apelthoûsa Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Mark 7:30 1
ἀπελθόντι apelthónti Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine Luke 9:59 1
ἀπερχομένων aperchoménōn Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Feminine Matthew 25:10 1
ἀπῆλθα apē̂ltha Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Revelation 10:9 1
ἀπῆλθόν apē̂lthón Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Luke 24:24 1
Ἀπελθόντων Apelthóntōn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Luke 7:24 1
Ἀπῆλθεν Apē̂lthen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 9:17 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G565, 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

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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 απερχομαι appears 170 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 160 verses in 20 books.

170
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
160
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
20 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 20 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G565) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 160. 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 (G565) 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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