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ἀποδίδωμι

to sell

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

G591 Strong's Greek
apodídōmi Transliteration
/ap-od-eed'-o-mee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 48 appearances

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About this entry

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αποδιδωμι (apodídōmi) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to sell.” Ranging over 4 senses, it is not a single-sense word. With 46 verses in 12 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 37% of its uses. It first appears in Matthew 5:26. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
deliver
Modern gloss
to sell
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 G591 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 →

46
distinct verses
The word appears in 46 distinct verses.
12 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 12 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 5:26
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 5:26.
Revelation 22:12
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:12.
#322
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 322 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 46 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 26 · 57%
  • Acts 4 · 9%
  • Pauline Epistles 8 · 17%
  • General Epistles 5 · 11%
  • Revelation 3 · 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 46 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 26 verses · 57%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 12 verses · 26%
  • Pauline corpus 8 verses · 17%
  • Johannine 3 verses · 7%
  • Hebrews 3 verses · 7%
  • Revelation 3 verses · 7%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 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: Render 6×, Give 4×, Pay 3×
  • American Standard Version: Render 9×, Gave 3×, Pay 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Give 4×, Pay 4×, Will repay 3×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Give back 4×, Give 3×, Repay 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G591 across 49 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Render” 6×
  • “Give” 4×
  • “Pay” 3×
  • “Shall reward” 3×
  • “He should pay” 2×
  • “I will pay” 2×
  • “Reward” 2×
  • “Shall give” 2×
  • “Sold” 2×
  • “Thou hast paid” 2×

Plus 21 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 1 further occurrence.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G591 across 49 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Render” 9×
  • “Gave” 3×
  • “Pay” 3×
  • “Shall recompense” 3×
  • “Back” 2×
  • “He should pay” 2×
  • “I will pay” 2×
  • “Shall give” 2×
  • “Sold” 2×
  • “Will render” 2×

Plus 19 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 G591 across 47 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Give” 4×
  • “Pay” 4×
  • “Will repay” 3×
  • “Will reward” 3×
  • “I will pay” 2×
  • “Repay” 2×
  • “Will give” 2×
  • “You have paid” 2×

Plus 25 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 1 further occurrence.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G591 across 52 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Give back” 4×
  • “Give” 3×
  • “Repay” 3×
  • “Will give” 3×
  • “Will repay” 3×
  • “Will reward” 3×
  • “I will repay” 2×
  • “Paying back” 2×
  • “You have paid” 2×

Plus 27 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 deliver, to give away for one's own profit what is one's own, to sell
  2. to pay off, discharge what is due
  3. to give back, restore
  4. to requite, recompense in a good or a bad sense

Word origin

Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 04:47,2

From G575 and G1325 ; to give away that is up over back etc. (in various applications): - deliver (again) give (again) (re-) pay (-ment be made) perform recompense render requite restore reward sell yield

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


Forms in the corpus

The 24 distinct written forms G591 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἀποδώσει apodṓsei Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 6:4 7
ἀπόδοτε apódote Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 22:21 5
ἀποδοῦναι apodoûnai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Matthew 18:25 4
ἀποδώσουσιν apodṓsousin Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 12:36 3
ἀποδώσω apodṓsō Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Matthew 18:26 3
ἀπόδος apódos Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 18:28 3
ἀπέδωκεν apédōken Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 9:42 2
ἀποδιδόντες apodidóntes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Romans 12:17 2
ἀποδοθῆναι apodothē̂nai Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive Matthew 18:25 2
ἀποδῷ apodō̂ Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 18:30 2
ἀποδῷς apodō̂s Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 5:26 2
ἀπέδετο apédeto Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Hebrews 12:16 1
ἀπέδοντο apédonto Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 7:9 1
ἀπέδοσθε apédosthe Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Acts 5:8 1
ἀπεδίδουν apedídoun Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 4:33 1
ἀποδίδωμι apodídōmi Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Luke 19:8 1
ἀποδίδωσιν apodídōsin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Hebrews 12:11 1
ἀποδιδοὺς apodidoùs Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Revelation 22:2 1
ἀποδιδόναι apodidónai Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 1 Timothy 5:4 1
ἀποδιδότω apodidótō Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 7:3 1
ἀποδοὺς apodoùs Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 4:20 1
ἀποδοῖ apodoî Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 1 Thessalonians 5:15 1
ἀποδώσεις apodṓseis Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 5:33 1
ἀποδώσοντες apodṓsontes Verb, Future, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Hebrews 13:17 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G591, 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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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word αποδιδωμι appears 222 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 197 verses in 28 books.

222
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
197
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
28 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 28 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G591) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 197. 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 (G591) 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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