ἀποτίνω
to repay
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
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G661 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Philemon 1 verse
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.
αποτινω — transliterated apotínō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to repay.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 1 verse. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Philemon. Found nowhere else but Philemon 1:19. Related forms include απο, απαγγελλω and απαγχομαι. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G661 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Philemon 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%
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: Will repay 1×
- American Standard Version: Will repay 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Will repay 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: I 1×, Will pay it back 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G661 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G661 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G661 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G661 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 pay off, repay
Word origin
Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G661, 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 αποτινω appears 30 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 29 verses in 11 books.
- 30
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 29
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 21:19 ἀποτίνω
- Leviticus 5:16 ἀποτίνω
- Ruth 2:12 ἀποτίνω
- 1 Samuel 24:20 ἀποτίνω
- 2 Samuel 12:6 ἀποτίνω
- 2 Kings 4:7 ἀποτίνω
- Job 34:33 ἀποτίνω
- Psalms 36:21 ἀποτίνω
- Proverbs 6:31 ἀποτίνω
- Isaiah 9:4 ἀποτίνω
- Ezekiel 33:15 ἀποτίνω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G661) 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 21:19 ἀποτίνω if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
- Exodus 21:34 ἀποτίνω the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
- Exodus 21:36 ἀποτίνω Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
- Exodus 21:37 ἀποτίνω
- Exodus 22:3 ἀποτίνω If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
- Exodus 22:4 ἀποτίνω If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.
- Exodus 22:5 ἀποτίνω "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.
- Exodus 22:6 ἀποτίνω "If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
- Exodus 22:8 ἀποτίνω If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods.
- Exodus 22:10 ἀποτίνω "If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;
- Exodus 22:11 ἀποτίνω the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
- Exodus 22:12 ἀποτίνω But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the owner of it.
- Exodus 22:13 ἀποτίνω If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.
- Exodus 22:14 ἀποτίνω "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, the owner of it not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.
- Exodus 22:16 ἀποτίνω "If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
- Leviticus 5:16 ἀποτίνω He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven.
- Leviticus 5:24 ἀποτίνω
- Leviticus 24:18 ἀποτίνω He who strikes a animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.
- Ruth 2:12 ἀποτίνω Yahweh recompense your work, and a full reward be given you of Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you are come to take refuge.
- 1 Samuel 24:20 ἀποτίνω Now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.
- 2 Samuel 12:6 ἀποτίνω He shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!"
- 2 Samuel 15:7 ἀποτίνω It happened at the end of forty years, that Absalom said to the king, please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
- 2 Kings 4:7 ἀποτίνω Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and live you and your sons of the rest.
- Job 34:33 ἀποτίνω Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.
- Psalms 36:21 ἀποτίνω
- Proverbs 6:31 ἀποτίνω But if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.
- Proverbs 22:27 ἀποτίνω If you don't have means to pay, Why should he take away your bed from under you?
- Isaiah 9:4 ἀποτίνω For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.
- Ezekiel 33:15 ἀποτίνω if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G661) 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.
