ἀποτίθημι
to put away
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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).
Voice
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G659 appears in the Book of 1 Peter — 1 distinct verse. 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.
1 Peter
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 put away” is the headline sense of the Greek verb αποτιθημι (apotíthēmi). Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 14:3. It turns up in 9 verses across 8 books, an uncommon footprint. It clusters with απο, απαγγελλω and απαγχομαι under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G659 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 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 9 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 4 verses · 44%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 22%
- Gospels 1 verse · 11%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 11%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 11%
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: Put off 2×
- American Standard Version: Putting away 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Get rid 1×, Laid 1×, Let us lay aside 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having laid aside 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G659 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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 G659 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G659 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G659 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 1 sense 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 put off or aside or away
Word origin
Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G659 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀποθέμενοι apothémenoi | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Ephesians 4:25 | 3 |
| ἀπέθεντο apéthento | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 7:58 | 1 |
| ἀπέθετο apétheto | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 14:3 | 1 |
| ἀποθέσθαι apothésthai | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Infinitive | Ephesians 4:22 | 1 |
| ἀποθώμεθα apothṓmetha | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural | Romans 13:12 | 1 |
| ἀπόθεσθε apóthesthe | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Colossians 3:8 | 1 |
| Ἀποθέμενοι Apothémenoi | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Peter 2:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G659, 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).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 113 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αποτιθημι appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 6 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 16:33 ἀποτίθημι
- Leviticus 16:23 ἀποτίθημι
- Numbers 15:34 ἀποτίθημι
- Joshua 4:8 ἀποτίθημι
- 2 Chronicles 18:26 ἀποτίθημι
- Joel 1:18 ἀποτίθημι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G659) 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 16:33 ἀποτίθημι Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."
- Exodus 16:34 ἀποτίθημι As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
- Leviticus 16:23 ἀποτίθημι "Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.
- Leviticus 24:12 ἀποτίθημι They put him in custody, until the will of Yahweh should be declared to them.
- Numbers 15:34 ἀποτίθημι They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
- Numbers 17:22 ἀποτίθημι
- Numbers 17:25 ἀποτίθημι
- Numbers 19:9 ἀποτίθημι A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin-offering.
- Joshua 4:8 ἀποτίθημι The children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
- 2 Chronicles 18:26 ἀποτίθημι and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
- Joel 1:18 ἀποτίθημι How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G659) 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.
