ἀποφέρω
to carry 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).
- 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).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G667 appears in the Book of Revelation — 2 distinct verses. 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.
Revelation
- Revelation 17:3 ἀπήνεγκέν aor act ind 3sg He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
- Revelation 21:10 ἀπήνεγκέν aor act ind 3sg He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
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.
At its core, αποφερω (apophérō) means “to carry away.” It first appears in Mark 15:1. It turns up in 6 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Revelation (33%), then Mark and Luke. It clusters with απο, απαγγελλω and απαγχομαι under a shared root. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G667 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 2 verses 33%
- Mark 1 verse 17%
- Luke 1 verse 17%
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 6 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 33%
- Johannine 2 verses · 33%
- Revelation 2 verses · 33%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 17%
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: Away 2×, He carried 2×
- American Standard Version: Away 2×, He carried 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Carried me away 1×, Carry 1×, He carried me away 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Away 3×, He carried 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G667 across 7 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 G667 across 7 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G667 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G667 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 carry off or bring away
Word origin
Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G667 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀπήνεγκέν apḗnenkén | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Revelation 17:3 | 2 |
| ἀπήνεγκαν apḗnenkan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Mark 15:1 | 1 |
| ἀπενεγκεῖν apenenkeîn | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | 1 Corinthians 16:3 | 1 |
| ἀπενεχθῆναι apenechthē̂nai | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive | Luke 16:22 | 1 |
| ἀποφέρεσθαι apophéresthai | Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive | Acts 19:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G667, 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 αποφερω appears 21 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 20 verses in 14 books.
- 21
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 20
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Leviticus 20:19 ἀποφέρω
- Numbers 17:11 ἀποφέρω
- 2 Samuel 13:13 ἀποφέρω
- 2 Chronicles 36:7 ἀποφέρω
- Ezra 5:5 ἀποφέρω
- Job 3:6 ἀποφέρω
- Psalms 44:15 ἀποφέρω
- Ecclesiastes 10:20 ἀποφέρω
- Isaiah 57:13 ἀποφέρω
- Jeremiah 52:17 ἀποφέρω
- Ezekiel 32:30 ἀποφέρω
- Daniel 1:2 ἀποφέρω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G667) 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.
- Leviticus 20:19 ἀποφέρω "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his close relative: they shall bear their iniquity.
- Numbers 17:11 ἀποφέρω Thus did Moses: as Yahweh commanded him, so did he.
- 2 Samuel 13:13 ἀποφέρω I, where shall I carry my shame? and as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.
- 2 Chronicles 36:7 ἀποφέρω Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Yahweh to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
- Ezra 5:5 ἀποφέρω But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and then answer should be returned by letter concerning it.
- Ezra 5:14 ἀποφέρω The gold and silver vessels also of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
- Job 3:6 ἀποφέρω As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
- Job 15:28 ἀποφέρω He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.
- Job 21:32 ἀποφέρω Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb.
- Psalms 44:15 ἀποφέρω All day long my dishonor is before me, And shame covers my face,
- Psalms 44:16 ἀποφέρω At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, Because of the enemy and the avenger.
- Ecclesiastes 10:20 ἀποφέρω Don't curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; And don't curse the rich in your bedchamber: For a bird of the sky may carry your voice, And that which has wings may tell the matter.
- Isaiah 57:13 ἀποφέρω When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.
- Jeremiah 52:17 ἀποφέρω The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
- Ezekiel 32:30 ἀποφέρω There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 38:13 ἀποφέρω Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Are you come to take the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil?
- Daniel 1:2 ἀποφέρω The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god: and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god.
- Daniel 11:8 ἀποφέρω Also their gods, with their molten images, [and] with their goodly vessels of silver and of gold, shall he carry captive into Egypt; and he shall refrain some years from the king of the north.
- Hosea 10:6 ἀποφέρω It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, And Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.
- Zechariah 5:10 ἀποφέρω Then said I to the angel who talked with me, "Where are these carrying the ephah basket?"
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G667) 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.
