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G525 ἀπαλλάσσω (apallássō)
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Quick Definition

ἀπαλλάσσω v. I free from

Strong's Definition

from 575 and 236; to change away, i.e. release, (reflexively) remove

KJV Usage: deliver, depart

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

verb | pf.pass.inf. ἀπηλλάχθαι | ἀλλάσσω

37.127 · Control, Rule · Release, Set Free

to release, to set free to release from control, to set free (highly generic meaning applicable to a wide variety of circumstances, including confinement, political domination, sin, sickness)

HEB 2:15

40.3 · Reconciliation, Forgiveness · Reconciliation

to settle with, to come to terms with to settle or come to an agreement with regard to some dispute or issue

LUK 12:58

13.40 · Be, Become, Exist, Happen · State

to cease, to stop, to depart to cease as of a state, with a significant element of change of state involved

ACT 19:12

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀπ-αλλάσσω: 1 aor. ἀπήλλαξα; Pass., [pres. ἀπαλλάσσομαι]: pf. inf. ἀπηλλάχθαι; (ἀλλάσσω to change; ἀπό, 86. τινός) ; com. in Grk. writ.; to remove, release; pass. to be removed, to depart: am’ αὐτῶν τὰς νόσους, Acts xix. 12 (Plat. Eryx. 401 ¢. εἰ αἱ νόσοι ἀπαλλαγείησαν ἐκ τῶν σωμάτων) ; in a transferred and esp. in a legal sense, ἀπό with gen. of pers., to be set free, the opponent being appeased and withdrawing the suit, to be quit of one: Lk. xii. 58, (so with a simple gen. of pers. Xen. mem. 2, 9,6). Hence univ. to set free, deliver: τινά, Heb. ii. 15; make known openly, declare: univ., περί twos, 1 Th. i. 9; | (in prof. auth. the gen. of the thing freed fr. is often ‘rut περί τ. Jn. xvi. 25 LT Tr WH); by teaching, ri, 1 Jn. | added; cf. Bleek on Heb. vol. ii. 1, p. 339 sq.).

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀπαλλάσσω apallassō 3x

to set free, deliver, set at liberty, Heb. 2:15; to rid judicially, Lk. 12:58; mid. to depart, remove, Acts 19:12*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἀπ-αλλάσσω,

[in LXX for סוּר hi., etc.;]

to remove, release: He 2:15; pass., to depart: Ac 19:12; in legal sense (MM, VGT, s.v.), seq. ἀπό, c. gen. pers., to be quit of: Lk 12:58 (Cremer, 90, 632).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἀπαλλάσσω. In one of the oldest marriage-contracts hitherto discovered among the Greek papyri, P Gen I. 21” (ii/B.c.), provision is made for what will take place ifthe wife of her own accord βούληται ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι, “desires to be released”: so P Tebt I. 104%? (B.c. 92), P Oxy IT. 10435 (a will, Α.Ὁ. 96) ἡνίκα ἐὰν ἀπαλλαγῇ τοῦ ἀνδρός, 74. IT. 26517 (a.p. 81-95), 76. 11. 26717, 39 (4.D. 36), αἰ, and for the subst. in a similar sense P Oxy VI. 90514 (A.p. 170) éJay δὲ ἀ]παλλαγὴ γένητία]ι. The correlative is well seen in P Ryl 11. 15426 (A.D. 66) ἐὰν δὲ διαφορᾶς αὐτοῖς γεναμένης [χ]ωρίζονται ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων, ἤτοι τοῦ Χ. ἀποπέμποντος τ[ὴ]ν Θ. ἢ καὶ αὐτῆς ἑκουσίω[ς ἀ]παλλασσομέν[η]ς [ἀ]π’ αὐτοῦ : the correspond/ OTAVTAM ing nouns ἀποπομπή and ἑκούσιος ἀπαλλαγή appear in 1. 2%. A more general use of the verb is afforded by P Petr II. 2 (3)'f (B.c. 260) (= Witkowski®, p. 22) εἰ ἔρρωσαι καὶ ἐν τοῖς [ἄϊλλοις ἀλύπως ἀπαλλάσσεις, “if you are well and in other respects are getting on without annoyance.” P Petr II. 201”: 8 (as amended P Petr III.) (B.c. 252) λυσιτελέστερον ἀπαλλάξει, “it will be more profitable for you to release (the boat from &yyapta).” P Ryl II. 7735 (a.p. 192) kal ἀπαλλαγῆναι ἐπιτηρήσεως “released from the superintendence of land under lease” (Edd.). The perf. partic. mid. means “dead” in P Lond 915! (A.D. 160 or 161) (=IIL. p. 27): cf. μετηλλαχώς. P Tebt 11. 315 (ii/a.p.) twice shows the word, as 15 [μη]δὲν ταραχ[θ]ῇς, ἐγὼ γάρ [oe [ἀ]παλλάξω (and 50 35) “1 will get you off” (Edd.). 74. 38524 (A.D. 117) ᾧ kal δώσι arradAaccopévw . . . “on his release (from apprenticeship)”: cf. the subst. in P Oxy IX. 120418 (A.D. 299) ἀπαλλαγὴν εὕρασθαι πειρώμενος... τῶν πολειτικῶν λειτουργιῶν, ‘‘ endeavouring to find a release from municipal offices.” The tod Blov, which produces the use noted above, is expressed in Hadrian’s dying letter (or what purports to be such), P Fay 191° [οὔτε ἀϊνοήτως ἀπαλλάσσομε τοῦ βίου. From inscriptions may be cited Sy// 51089 (ii/B.c.) ὅσοι δὲ ἐγκαταλιπόντες τὰ κτήματα ἀπηλλαγμένοι εἰσίν, οἱ δὲ τοκισταὶ γεγεωργήκασιν, εἶναι τὰ κτήματα τῶν τοκιστῶν, apparently “have absconded.” So P Fay 1219 (c. B.c. 103) ἀπηλλάγησαν. There is a curious use in P Flor II. 26214 (iii/A.D.) ἀπήλαξεν γὰρ τότε τὸν πῆχιν δραχμῶν δέκα, which Comparetti renders ‘‘ poiché allora να]αϊὸ il cubito a dieci dramm=:”—so we say “he let it go for a shilling.” «

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀπαλλάσσω (apallassō) — to release. ἀπαλλάσσω, Attic dialect ἀπαλλάττω, future -ξω[Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἀπήλλᾰχα[Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἀπήλλαξα[Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, perfect ἀπήλλαγμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+], Ionic dialect ἀπάλλαγμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ἀπηλλάχθην, Ionic dialect ἀπαλλ-[Refs]; in Attic dialect ἀπηλλάγην [ᾰ] as always in Prose; also in Trag. (for the most part for the sake of meter, compare however [Refs 5th c.BC+]: future ἀπαλλαχθήσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+] —middle, future (in passive sense) ἀπαλλάξομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἀπαηλλάξαντο[Refs 5th c.BC+] __A. active, set free, deliver from a thing, παιδίον δυσμορφίης[Refs 5th c.BC+]; τινὰ πόνων, κακῶν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with accusative only, release, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. put away from, remove from, τί τινος, as ἀ. γῆς πρόσωπον, φρενῶν ἔρωτα, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τινά τινος take away or remove from one, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

3. with accusative only, put away, remove, τι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μύθοις ἔργ᾽ ἀ. κακά do away ill by words, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; get rid of creditors, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; get rid of an opponent, by fair means or foul, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; dismiss, send away, τινά[Refs]; remove or displace from an office,[Refs 1st c.AD+]; also, make away with, destroy, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; bring to an end, λόγον[Refs 5th c.BC+]

4. in Law, give a release, discharge, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; discharge a debt, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—so in passive, [Refs]

II. intransitive, get off free, escape, especially with an adverb added, ῥηιδίως, χαλεπῶς ἀ., [Refs 5th c.BC+]came off, ended, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀλύπως ἀ. get along well, [Refs]: with participle or adjective, χαίρων[Refs 5th c.BC+]: with genitive, depart from, βίου[Refs 5th c.BC+]in respect of.., [Refs 4th c.BC+] __B. passive and middle, to be set free or released from a thing, get rid of it, ἀπαλλαχθέντας δουλοσύνης[Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.2 get off, escape, mostly with some adjective or adverb added (as in active [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀζήμιος ἀπαλλαγῆναι, ἀπαλλάττεσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.3 absolutely, to be acquitted, [Refs 4th c.BC+] __B.4 of a point under discussion, to be dismissed as settled, τοῦτο ἀπήλλακται μὴ.. τὸ φίλον φίλον εἶναι[Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II remove, depart from, ἐκ τῆς χώρης, ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; depart, go away, ἐς τὴν ἑωυτοῦ[Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II.2 ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι τοῦ βίου depart from life, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; frequently without τοῦ βίου, depart, die, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II.3 ἀ. λέχους to be divorced, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II.4 ἀ. τῶν διδασκάλων leave school, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II.5 ἀ. ἐκ παίδων become a man, [Refs 4th c.BC+] __B.II.6 to be removed from, free from the imputation of, ἀπηλλαγμένος εὐηθίης many removes from folly, [Refs 5th c.BC+]infinitive, κρῖναι ἱκανῶς οὐκ ἀπήλλακτο was not far from judging adequately, [Refs] __B.II.6.b πολλὸν ἀπηλλαγμένος τινός far inferior to him, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II.7 depart from, leave off from, τῶν μακρῶν λόγων[Refs 5th c.BC+]give up the pursuit of.., [Refs 4th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἀπήλλακται γραφικῆς is not averse from.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+] __B.II.7.b absolutely, have done, cease, of things, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II.7.c throw up one's case, give up a prosecution, [Refs 4th c.BC+] __B.II.7.d with participle, εἰπὼν ἀπαλλάγηθι speak and be done withit, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in participle, with a Verb, οὐκοῦν ἀπαλλαχθεὶς ἄπε; make haste and begone, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II.8 to depart from enmity, i.e. to be reconciled, settle a dispute, πρὸς ἀλλήλους[Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II.9 recover from an ailment, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

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