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ἀπό

from

‘from’ is one of 6 main senses fuller range ↓

G575 Strong's Greek
apó Transliteration
/apo'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 638 appearances

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About this entry

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“from” is the headline sense of the Greek word απο (apó). Catalogued under 6 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. With 583 verses in 27 books, it is one of the most common word in the Greek New Testament. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 1:17. From the same root come απαγγελλω, απαγχομαι and απαγω. See the sense tree, 583-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
after
Modern gloss
from
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 G575 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 →

583
distinct verses
The word appears in 583 distinct verses.
27 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:17
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:17.
Revelation 22:19
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:19.
#30
by frequency
Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 30 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 583 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 293 · 50%
  • Acts 105 · 18%
  • Pauline Epistles 102 · 17%
  • General Epistles 57 · 10%
  • Revelation 26 · 4%

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 583 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 293 verses · 50%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 216 verses · 37%
  • Pauline corpus 102 verses · 17%
  • Johannine 84 verses · 14%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 35 verses · 6%
  • Revelation 26 verses · 4%
  • Hebrews 22 verses · 4%

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: From 370×, Of 164×, For 10×
  • American Standard Version: From 411×, Of 99×, For 14×
  • Berean Standard Bible: From 363×, Of 61×, By 20×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: From 561×, By 18×, Of 15×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G575 across 648 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “From” 370×
  • “Of” 164×
  • “For” 10×
  • “Since” 10×
  • “By” 9×
  • “At” 8×
  • “Off” 7×
  • “In” 5×
  • “On” 5×
  • “With” 5×
  • “Ago” 4×
  • “Afar off” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 29 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 9 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G575 across 640 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “From” 411×
  • “Of” 99×
  • “For” 14×
  • “By” 10×
  • “Away from” 8×
  • “Out” 8×
  • “Since” 7×
  • “Off” 6×
  • “In” 5×
  • “On” 5×
  • “With” 5×
  • “At” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 48 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 G575 across 549 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “From” 363×
  • “Of” 61×
  • “By” 20×
  • “In” 16×
  • “On” 13×
  • “For” 12×
  • “Since” 12×
  • “With” 12×
  • “At” 5×
  • “Away” 5×
  • “Away from” 3×
  • “To” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 18 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 80 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G575 across 644 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “From” 561×
  • “By” 18×
  • “Of” 15×
  • “For” 8×
  • “Away from” 7×
  • “In” 5×
  • “On” 4×
  • “Since” 4×
  • “With” 4×
  • “After” 2×
  • “At” 2×
  • “Away” 2×

Plus 12 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 6 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. of local separation, after verbs of motion from a place i.e. of departing, of fleeing, ...
  2. of separation of a part from the whole
  3. of any kind of separation of one thing from another by which the union or fellowship of the two is destroyed
  4. of a state of separation, that is of distance
  5. of the place whence anything is, comes, befalls, is taken
  6. of origin of a cause

Word origin

Origin: a primary particle

A primary particle; off that is away (from something near) in various senses (of place time or relation; literally or figuratively): - (X here-) after ago at because of before by (the space of) for (-th) from in (out) of off (up-) on (-ce) since with. In composition (as a prefix) it usually denotes separation departure cessation completion reversal etc.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 5 distinct written forms G575 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἀπὸ apò Preposition Matthew 1:17 468
ἀπ’ ap Preposition Matthew 7:23 119
ἀφ’ aph Preposition Matthew 21:43 44
Ἀπὸ Apò Preposition Matthew 4:17 6
ἀπό apó Preposition Acts 28:23 1

Same root — word family


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word απο appears 3,452 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2,803 verses in 38 books.

3,452
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
2,803
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
38 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 38 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G575) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 2,803. 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 (G575) 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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