ἀπολείπω
to abandon
‘to abandon’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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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).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
3 distinct verses where G620 appears in the Present tense, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Hebrews 3 verses
- Hebrews 4:6 ἀπολείπεται pres pass ind 3sg Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,
- Hebrews 4:9 ἀπολείπεται pres pass ind 3sg There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
- Hebrews 10:26 ἀπολείπεται pres pass ind 3sg For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
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.
The Greek verb απολειπω centers on the idea of “to abandon.” Debuting at 2 Timothy 4:13, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 7 verses across 4 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Hebrews (43%), then 2 Timothy and Titus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Dig into 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G620 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 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 7 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 43%
- Hebrews 3 verses · 43%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 14%
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: Remaineth 3×
- American Standard Version: Remaineth 3×, I left 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: I left 3×, Remains 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: I left 3×, Remains 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G620 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 G620 across 6 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 G620 across 7 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G620 across 7 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.
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 leave, to leave behind
- to desert or forsake
Word origin
Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G620 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀπολείπεται apoleípetai | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Hebrews 4:6 | 3 |
| ἀπέλιπον apélipon | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | 2 Timothy 4:13 | 2 |
| ἀπέλιπόν apélipón | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | Titus 1:5 | 1 |
| ἀπολιπόντας apolipóntas | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Jude 1:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G620, 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
- 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
+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 απολειπω appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 14 verses in 8 books.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 14
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 5:19 ἀπολείπω
- Leviticus 22:30 ἀπολείπω
- Judges 9:9 ἀπολείπω
- 2 Kings 10:21 ἀπολείπω
- 2 Chronicles 16:5 ἀπολείπω
- Job 11:20 ἀπολείπω
- Proverbs 2:17 ἀπολείπω
- Isaiah 55:7 ἀπολείπω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G620) 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 5:19 ἀπολείπω The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!"
- Exodus 12:10 ἀπολείπω You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
- Leviticus 22:30 ἀπολείπω It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am Yahweh.
- Judges 9:9 ἀπολείπω But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness, with which by me they honor God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?
- Judges 9:11 ἀπολείπω But the fig tree said to them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?
- Judges 9:13 ἀπολείπω The vine said to them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?
- 2 Kings 10:21 ἀπολείπω Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn't come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.
- 2 Chronicles 16:5 ἀπολείπω It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease.
- Job 11:20 ἀπολείπω But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, They shall have no way to flee; Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."
- Proverbs 2:17 ἀπολείπω Who forsakes the friend of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God:
- Proverbs 9:6 ἀπολείπω Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."
- Proverbs 9:12 ἀπολείπω If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
- Proverbs 19:27 ἀπολείπω If you stop listening to instruction, my son, You will stray from the words of knowledge.
- Isaiah 55:7 ἀπολείπω let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G620) 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.
