Quick Definition
ἀπάγω v. I lead, carry, take away
Strong's Definition
from 575 and 71; to take off (in various senses)
KJV Usage: bring, carry away, lead (away), put to death, take away
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | aor. ἀπήγαγον · aor.pass.inf. ἀπαχθῆναι | ἄγω
15.177 · Linear Movement · Lead, Bring, Take
to lead off, to lead away, to take away, to take aside to lead or take away from a particular point
MAT 26:57 · MAT 27:2 · MAT 27:31 · MRK 14:44 · MRK 14:53 · LUK 13:15 · LUK 21:12 · LUK 22:66
56.38 · Courts and Legal Procedures · Lead Off to Punishment
to lead off (to punishment or to death) to lead a person away for punishment after being sentenced, frequently employed in a context of putting a condemned person to death For another interpretation of ἀπάγω in ACT 12:19, see 20.65.
20.65 · Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill · Kill
to kill, to execute to deprive a person of life, with the implication of this being the result of condemnation by legal or quasi-legal procedures For another interpretation of ἀπάγω in ACT 12:19, see 56.38.
88.152 · Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior · Mislead, Lead Astray, Deceive
to lead astray, to mislead, to deceive to cause someone to depart from correct behavior
1 MAT 27:31 ἀπάγω[a] is frequently used in contexts referring to persons being led off to trial or to execution, but there seems to be no reason for setting up a separate meaning.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀπ-άγω; [impf. ἀπῆγον (Lk. xxiii. 26 Tr mre. WH mrg.)]; 2 aor. ἀπήγαγον; Pass., [pres. ἀπάγομαι]; 1 aor. annxOnv; [fr. Hom. down]; to lead away: Lk. xiii. 15 (se. ἀπὸ τῆς φάτνης); Acts xxiii. 10 (Lehm. [ed. min.]); 17 (se. hence); xxiv. 7 [RG] (away, ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν ἡμῶν) ; 1 Co. xii. 2 (led astray πρὸς τὰ εἴδωλα). Used esp. of those led off to trial, prison, punishment: Mt. xxvi. 57; xxvii. 2,31; Mk. xiv. 44,53; χν. 16; Lk. xxi.12 (T Tr WH); [xxii. 66 T Tr WH]; xxiii. 26; Jn. xviii. 13 RG [ἤγαγον LT Tr WH]; xix. 16 Rec.; Acts xii. 19; (so also in Grk. writ.). Used of a way leading to a certain end: Mt. vii. 13, 14 (eis τὴν ἀπώλειαν. εἰς τὴν ζωήν). [Comp. : συν-απάγω.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀπάγω apagō 15x
to lead away, Mt. 26:57; to conduct, Mt. 7:13, 14; pass. to be led off to execution, Acts 12:19; met. to be led astray, seduced, 1 Cor. 12:1
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀπ-άγω,
[in LXX for נהג, הלךְ hi., etc.;]
to lead away: Lk 13:15, Ac 23:17 24:7 (R, mg.), I Co 12:2; esp. of leading to trial (so as law term in Attic), prison and death (MM, VGT, s.v.): Mt 26:57 27:2, 31, Mk 14:44, 53 15:16, Lk 21:12 22:66 23:26, Ac 12:19; of the direction of a way: Mt 7:13, 14 (cf. συν-απ-άγω).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀπάγω. The verb is found four times in P Oxy I. 33 (late ii/a.D.), of one being ‘‘led off” to death, which may perhaps determine the meaning in Ac 1279: the guards were not merely ‘‘imprisoned,” but ‘led away to death” (RV mg). Lk 2355, with the Vulgate duci and the gloss ἀποκτανθῆναι in D*, are probably decisive for this (the Attic) meaning. On the other hand, it should be noted that ἀ, is the ordinary word for ‘‘arresting” (cf. Gen 3972 τοὺς ἀπηγμένους -- ‘‘ the prisoners”) as P Petr III. 36 (a) verso® ἀδίκως amnypévov and 76.27 ἀκριβείας ἕνεκεν ἀπήχθην : so P Lille γ15 (iii/B.c.) οὗτος δὲ ἀπήγαγέν pe els τὸ αὖθι δεσμωτήριον, P Petr II. 10 (2)!2 συνέταξεν ὁ ὑπηρέτης ἀπαγαγεῖν pe, ‘the apparitor gave directions to arrest me” (Ed.), and OG/S go™ (the Rosetta stone, B.C. 196) τοὺς ἐν ταῖς φυλακαῖς ἀπηγμένους . ἀπέλυσε τῶν ἐνκεκλ(η)μένων. Cf. also P Oxy II. 237 1:18 (a.p. 186), where Chaeremon claims the right of taking away his daughter even against her will from her huSband’s house—amdyovtt αὐτὴν ἄκουσαν ἐκ τῆς τοῦ ἀνδρὸς οἰκίας, BGU IV. 113915 (B.c. 5) ἐτόλμησε. .. ἀποστερεῖν ἀπαγαγεῖν τὴν θυγατέρα ἡμῶν... καὶ ἔχειν παρ᾽ ἑαυτῶι ἐν εἱρκτ[ἢ ἐπὶ] μῆνας € In the dialect inscription Sy// 271%" (ii/B.c.) it denotes apparently the ‘‘capture” of youths in a raid.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀπάγω (apagō) — to lead away. ἀπάγω [ᾰγ], lead away, carry off, ἀπάγουσι βόας καὶ ἴφια μῆλα[Refs 8th c.BC+]; προσάγειν.., ἀπάγειν, bring near.., hold far off, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀ. ἀχλὺν ἀπ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν remove it, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἀπάξετε ταῦτ; stop this fooling! [Refs 4th c.AD+]:—middle, take away for or with oneself, παρθένον[Refs 5th c.BC+]; or that which is one's own, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, ἐς ὀξὺ ἀπηγμένας brought to a point, tapering off, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. lead away, draw off troops, τῆς στρατιῆς τὸ πολλόν[Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. b elliptically, retire, withdraw, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. abduct, [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, πρὸς ὕβριν -εσθαι[Refs]
II. bring back, bring home, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
III. return, render what one owes, pay, τὸν φόρον[Refs 5th c.BC+]; render service, honour, etc., κώμους πρὸς τάφον[Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV. arrest and carry off, ἀπάγετε αὐτὸν παρ᾽ ἐμέ[Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, ἀπαχθέντας παρ᾽ ἑωυτόν[Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV.2. law-term, bring before a magistrate and accuse [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀσεβείας for impiety, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ -εσθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+]
IV.3. carry off to prison, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
V. lead away, divert from the subject, especially by sophistry, ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄντος ἐπὶ τοὐναντίον[Refs 5th c.BC+]divert.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]
V. b in Logic, reduce, εἰς ἀδύνατον[Refs 4th c.BC+]:—impersonal in passive, ἀπῆκται ἄρα εἰς..[Refs 3rd c.AD+]
V. c in later Greek, reduce, drive an opposing disputant, ἐπὶ ψεῦδος[Refs 2nd c.AD+]; εἰς ἀντίφασιν, εἰς ἄτοπον, [Refs 6th c.AD+]:—passive, εἰς ἀδύνατον ἀπαχθῆναι[Refs 2nd c.AD+]
V.2. receive, ἀπ᾽ ὄψεως.. τὰ δοξάζοντα ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+]
V.3. separate, ἀπάγεται καὶ χωρίζεται[Refs]
VI. simply, carry, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ τόξον[Refs]