Quick Definition
I renounce, disown
Strong's Definition
to say off for oneself, i.e. disown
Derivation: reflexive past of a compound of G575 (ἀπό) and G2036 (ἔπω);
KJV Usage: renounce
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀπεῖπον: (εἶπον, 2 aorist from the obsolete ἐπω);
1. to speak out, set forth, declare (Homer, Iliad 7, 416 ἀγγελιην ἀπηιπεν, 9, 309 τόν μυθον ἀποειπεῖν).
2. to forbid: 1Ki_11:2, and in Attic writings.
3. to give up, renounce: with the accusative of the thing, Job_10:3 (for ξΘΰΗρ), and often in Greek writings from Homer down. In the same sense 1 aorist middle ἀπειπαμην, 2Co_4:2 (see WHs Appendix, p. 164) (cf. αἰσχύνη, 1); so too in Herodotus 1, 59; 5, 56; 7, 14 (etc.), and the later writings from Polybius down.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀπεῖπον apeipon 1x
to refuse, forbid, to renounce, disclaim, 2Co_4:2
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀπ -εῖπον , 2 aor. without present in use,
[in LXX for H3988 , H559 , etc.;]
1. to tell out.
2. to forbid ( 1Ki_11:2 ).
3. to renounce: 1 aor. mid . ( WH , App ., 164; MM , VGT , s.v. ), 2Co_4:2 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀπεῖπον (~ἀπειπόμην ) [page 56]
The middle (as in 2Co_4:2 ) appears in Ostr 1156 ἀπειπόμεθα παρ᾽ ἡμῶν χρήσασθαι ᾧ βούλει γερδ (ιείῳ ). The perfect may be cited from BGU IV. 1113 .8 (B.C. 14) τ̣ο̣υ̣̑ Κανοληίο [υ ἀπε ]ι̣ρ̣η̣μένου τὴν ἐπιτροπείαν , and pres. with aor. in P Giss I. 82 .21 (A.D. 117) . . ἀπο ]λ [ε ]γ̣ο̣μένων κα̣ι̣̣ ἀπειπομένων πάσας τὰς μέχρι νῦν δαπά [νας . . . In the new uncanonical Gospel fragment, P Oxy X. 1224 ii. verso (p. 7) (iv/A.D.) we find τί οὖν ἀ ]πεῖπας ; What then hast thou forbidden? (Edd.).
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀπ-εῖπον, 2 aor. without present in use
[in LXX for מָאַס, אָמַר, etc. ;]
__1. to tell out.
__2. to forbid (3Ki.11:2).
__3. to renounce: 1 aor. mid. (WH, App., 164; MM, VGT, see word), 2Co.4:2.†
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