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G565 ἀπέρχομαι (apérchomai)
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ἀπέρχομαι v. I come or go away from, depart, return

Strong's Definition

from 575 and 2064; to go off (i.e. depart), aside (i.e. apart) or behind (i.e. follow), literally or figuratively

KJV Usage: come, depart, go (aside, away, back, out, ... ways), pass away, be past

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

verb | fut. ἀπελεύσομαι · aor. ἀπῆλθον · pf. ἀπελήλυθα | ἔρχομαι

15.37 · Linear Movement · Leave, Depart, Flee, Escape, Send

to go away, to depart, to leave motion away from a reference point with emphasis upon the departure, but without implications as to any resulting state of separation or rupture

MAT 2:22 · MAT 4:24 · MAT 5:30 · MAT 8:18 · MAT 8:19 · MAT 8:21 · MAT 8:32 · MAT 8:33 · MAT 9:7 · MAT 10:5 · MAT 13:25 · MAT 13:28 · MAT 13:46 · MAT 14:15 · MAT 14:16 · MAT 16:4 · MAT 16:21 · MAT 18:30 · MAT 19:22 · MAT 20:5 · MAT 21:29 · MAT 21:30 · MAT 22:5 · MAT 22:22 · MAT 25:10 · MAT 25:18 · MAT 25:25 · MAT 25:46 · MAT 26:36 · MAT 26:42 · MAT 26:44 · MAT 27:5 · MAT 27:60 · MAT 28:8 · MAT 28:10 · MRK 1:20 · MRK 1:35 · MRK 3:13 · MRK 5:17 · MRK 5:20 · MRK 5:24 · MRK 6:27 · MRK 6:32 · MRK 6:36 · MRK 6:37 · MRK 6:46 · MRK 7:24 · MRK 7:30 · MRK 8:13 · MRK 9:43 · MRK 10:22 · MRK 11:4 · MRK 12:12 · MRK 14:10 · MRK 14:12 · MRK 14:39 · MRK 16:13 · LUK 1:23 · LUK 1:38 · LUK 2:15 · LUK 5:14 · LUK 5:25 · LUK 7:24 · LUK 8:31 · LUK 8:37 · LUK 8:39 · LUK 9:57 · LUK 9:59 · LUK 9:60 · LUK 10:30 · LUK 17:23 · LUK 19:32 · LUK 22:4 · LUK 22:13 · LUK 24:24 · JHN 4:3 · JHN 4:8 · JHN 4:28 · JHN 4:47 · JHN 5:15 · JHN 6:1 · JHN 6:22 · JHN 6:68 · JHN 9:7 · JHN 9:11 · JHN 10:40 · JHN 11:28 · JHN 11:46 · JHN 11:54 · JHN 12:19 · JHN 12:36 · JHN 16:7 · JHN 16:7 · JHN 18:6 · JHN 20:10 · ACT 4:15 · ACT 5:26 · ACT 9:17 · ACT 10:7 · ACT 16:39 · ACT 23:32 · ROM 15:28 · GAL 1:17 · JAS 1:24 · REV 10:9 · REV 12:17 · REV 16:2

13.93 · Be, Become, Exist, Happen · Exist

to cease to exist, to pass away, to cease to go out of existence

MRK 1:42 · LUK 5:13 · REV 9:12 · REV 11:14 · REV 18:14 · REV 21:1 · REV 21:4

36.36 · Guide, Discipline, Follow · Follow, Be a Disciple

Collocation: ἀπέρχομαι εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω

to no longer be a disciple, to no longer follow (an idiom, literally: to go back to what lies behind) to cease being a follower or disciple of

JHN 6:66

88.279 · Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior · Sexual Misbehavior

Collocation: ἀπέρχομαι ὀπίσω σαρκὸς ἑτέρας

to have homosexual intercourse (an idiom, literally: to go after strange flesh) to engage in unnatural sexual intercourse Though in some societies homosexuality is extremely rare, there are always ways of talking about it, though frequently the expressions may seem to be quite vulgar.

JUD 1:7

15.92 · Linear Movement · Return

Collocation: ἀπέρχομαι πρὸς ἑαυτόν

to go back home, to go back to one’s place (an idiom, literally: to return to oneself) to go back to one’s place or abode

LUK 24:12

1 ἀπέρχομαι[a] and ἄφιξις differ in meaning from πορεύομαι[c], ἄγω[c], ὑπάγω[b], and μεταίρω (15.34,35) in marking the departure more specifically and overtly by the prefixial forms ἀπ- and ἀφ-.

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀπ-έρχομαι ; fut. ἀπελεύσομαι (Mt. xxv. 46; Ro. xv. 28; W. 86 (82)); 2 aor. ἀπῆλθον (ἀπῆλθα in Rev. x. 9 [where RG Tr -θον], ἀπῆλθαν LT Tr WH in Mt. xxii. 22; Rev. xxi. 1, 4 [(but here WH txt. only), ete., and WH in Lk. xxiv. 24]; cf. W. § 13,1; Mullach p. 17 sq. [226]; B. 39 (34); [.Soph. Lex. p. 38; Tdf. Proleg. p. 123; WH. App. p. 164 sq.; Kuenen and Cobet, N. T. p. lxiv.; Scrivener, Introd. p. 562; Collation, ete., p. liv. sq.]); pf. ἀπελήλυθα (Jas. i. 24); plpf. ἀπεληλύθειν (In. iv. 8) ; [fr. Hom. down]; to go away (fr. a place), to depart; 1. properly, a. absol.: Mt. xiii. 25; xix. 22; Mk. v. 20; Lk. viii. 39; xvii. 23; Jn. xvi. 7, ete. Ptep. ἀπελθών with indic. or subj. of other verbs in past time to go (away) and ete.: Mt. xiii. 28,46; xviii. 30; xxv. 18, 25; xxvi. 36; xxvii. 5; Mk. vi. 27 (28), 37; Lk. v.14. Ὁ. with specification of the place into which, or of the person to whom or from whom one departs: eis with ace. of place, Mt. v. 30 L T Tr WH; xiv.15; xvi. 21; xxii. 5; Mk. vi. 86; ix. 43; Jn. iv. 8; Ro. xv. 28, ete.; eis ὁδὸν ἐθνῶν, Mt. x. 5; eis τὸ πέραν, Mt. viii. 18; Mk. Vili. 13; [8¢ ὑμῶν εἰς Maxed. 2 Co. i. 16 Lehm. txt.]; ἐπί with ace. of place, Lk. [xxiii. 33 R GT]; xxiv. 24; ἐπί with ace. of the business which one goes to attend to: ἐπί (the true reading for R G εἰς) τὴν ἐμπορίαν αὐτοῦ, Mt. xxii. 5; ἐκεῖ, Mt. 11. 22; ἔξω with gen., Acts iv. 15; πρός τινα, Mt. xiv. 25 [Rec.]; Rev. x. 9; ἀπό τινος, Lk. i. 38; viii. 37. Hebraistically (ef. "M8 39M) ἀπέρχ. ὀπίσω τινός to go away in order to follow any one, go afler him figuratively, i. e. to follow his party, follow him as a leader: Mk. i. 20; Jn. xii. 19; in the same sense ἀπέρχ. πρός τινα, Jn. vi. 68; Xen. an. 1, 9,16 (29); used also of those who seek any one for vile purposes, Jude 7. Lexicographers (following Suidas, ‘améA6y- ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπανέλθῃ ᾽) incorrectly ascribe to ἀπέρχεσθαι also the idea of returning, going back,— misled by the fact that a going away is often at the same time a going back. But where this is the case, it is made evident either by the connection, as in Lk. vii. 24, or by some adjunct, as εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ, Mt. ix. 7; Mk. vii. 80, (οἴκαδε, Xen. Cyr. 1, 3, 6); πρὸς ἑαυτόν [Treg. mp. αὐτόν] home, Lk. xxiv. 12 [R G, but L Tr br. TWH reject the vs.]; Jn. xx. 10 [here T Tr πρὸς αὐτούς. WH π. air. (see atrov)]; eis τὰ ὀπίσω, Jn. vi. 66 (to return home); xviii. 6 (to draw back, retreat). 2. trop.: of departing evils and sufferings, Mk. i. 42; Lk. v.13 (ἡ λέπρα ἀπῆλθεν ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ); Rev. ix. 12; xi. 14; of good things taken away from one, Rev. xviii. 14 [Β 6]; of an evanescent state of things, Rev. xxi. 1 (Rec. παρῆλθε), 4; of a report going forth or spread eis, Mt. iv. 24 [Treg. mrg. ἐξῆλθεν]. an-éxw; [impf. ἀπεῖχον Mt. xiv. 24 Tr txt. WH txt. ; pres. mid. ἀπέχομαι] ; 1. trans. a. to hold back, keep off, prevent, (Hom. Il. 1, 97 [Zenod.]; 6, 96; Plat. Crat. c. 23 p.407b.). Ὄ. to have wholly or in full, to have received (what one had a right to expect or demand; cf. ἀποδιδόναι, ἀπολαμβάνειν, | Win. De verb. comp. ete. Pt. iv. p.8; Gram. 275 (258); B. 203 (176); ace. to Bp. Lghtft. (on Phil. iv. 18) ἀπό denotes corres pondence, i. e. of the contents to the capacity, of the possession to the desire, etc.]): τινά, Philem. 15; μισθόν, Mt. vi. 2, 5, 16; παράκλησιν, Lk. vi. 24; πάντα, Phil. iv. 18; (often so in Grk. writ. [cf. Bp. Lghtft. on Phil. l.c.]). Hence oc. ἀπέχει, impers., it is enough, sufficient: Mk. xiv. 41, where the explanation is ‘ye have slept now long enough’; so that Christ takes away the permission, just given to his disciples, of sleeping longer; cf. Meyer ad loc.; (in the same sense in (Pseudo-) Anacr. in Odar. (15) 28, 33; Cyril Alex. on Hag. ii. 9 [but the true reading here seems to be ἀπέχω, see P. E. Pusey’s ed. Oxon. 1868]). 2. intrans. to be away, absent, distant, [B. 144 (126)]: absol., Lk. xv. 20; ἀπό, Lk. vii. 6; xxiv. 13; Mt. [xiv. 24 Tr txt. WH txt.]; xv. 8; Mk. vii. 6, (Is. xxix. 13). 3. Mid. to hold one’s self off, abstain: amo twos, from any thing, Acts xv. 20 [RG]; 1 Th. iv. 3; v. 22, (Jobi. 1; ii. 3; Ezek. viii. 6) ; τινός, Acts xv. 29; 1 Tim. iv. 3; 1 Pet.ii.11. (So in Grk. writ. fr. Hom. down.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀπέρχομαι aperchomai 117x

to go away, depart, Mt. 8:18; to go forth, pervade, as a rumor, Mt. 4:24; to arrive at a destination, Lk. 23:33; to pass away, disappear, Rev. 21:4; ἀπέρχομαι ὀπίσω, to follow, Mk. 1:20

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἀπ-έρχομαι,

[in LXX chiefly for הלךְ;]

to go away, depart (also, in late writers, with "perfective" force, to arrive at a destination, the thought being carried on to the goal; M, Pr., 111 f., 247; MM, s.v.); absol.: Mt 13:25, al.; ptcp., ἀπελθών, used pleonastically with other verbs as in Heb. (Dalman, Words, 21), Mt 13:28, al.;

with mention of place or person: εἰς, Mt 14:15; ἐπί, Lk 24:24; πρός, Re 10:9; ἀπό, Lk 1:38; ἐξω, Ac 4:15; ἐκεῖ, Mt 2:22.

As in LXX, seq. ὀπίσω, c. gen. (Heb. הָלַךְ אַחֲרֵי), to go after, follow: Mk 1:20, Jo 12:19; metaph., Mk 1:42, Re 21:1.

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἀπέρχομαι occurs in a special sense in the affectionate letter of Philonides to his father the “‘ architect’ Cleon, P Petr II. 13 (19)? (middle of iii/B.c.) (=Witkowski?, p. 19), ζῶντός σου καὶ εἰς θεοὺς ἀπελθόντος. So, much later, in the beautiful simplicity of a Christian epitaph, Preisigke 1190: Tahoat ἐβίωσεν Parr I, qa ἀπέχω εἴκουσι ὀκτώ, γ(ίνονται) (ἔτη) KH His λαμπρὰν (sc. γῆν) ἀπῆλθεν ---ἃ striking contrast to the monotonous ἄωρε χαῖρε on the pagan tombs of the young. of the word, it is sufficient to cite P Par 32°* (B.c. 162) γινώσκετε, ἀφ᾽ οὗ ἀφ᾽ ὑμῶν ἀπελήλυθα, μὴ ἐσχολα[κέν]αι For the ordinary use A.D.) πρὶν οὖν ἀπέλθῃς πρὸς Χαιρήμονα, ἀνά(βαινεὶ πρός pe, ἵνα σοι ἀποτάξομαι. It inay be noted that “‘in later times the idea of the word goes forward to the goal” (Usener, Pe/agiaLegenden, p. 49). So in Pelagia, p. 75) ἀπήλθαμεν ἐν τῇ μεγάλῃ ἐκκλησίᾳ, “ we arrived at the great church”; and much earlier in BGU III. 814% (iii/A.p.) γείνωσκε ὅτι λοιποῦμαι ὅτι οὐκ ἀπῆλθα ἐνγὺς τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ, “ have never come near my brother,” 26.22 ἔλεγε ὅτι ἐὰν ἀπέλθω εἰς οἶκον, πέμπω σοι] πάντα" οὐδέν μ[ο]ι ἐπέμψαται -- -re) . διὰ tel; The ἀπό has thus done for this word what it did in early times for ἀφικνέομαι, ferfectivizing the action: see Proéeg. p- 111 ff. So also with ἀποβαίνω.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀπέρχομαι (aperchomai) — to go away. ἀπέρχομαι, future -ελεύσομαι (Attic dialect future ἄπειμι): perfect -ελήλυθα: aorist -ῆλθον:— go away, depart from, with genitive, πάτρης[Refs 8th c.BC+] cease from tears. [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. with εἰς, implying departure from one place and arrival at another, ἀ. ἐς τὰς Σάρδις[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. ἐπ᾽ οἴκου depart homewards, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπῆλθεν ὅθεν.. went back to the place whence he came, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

3. absolutely, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ταχεῖ᾽ ἀπέρχεται (i.e. ἡ νόσος) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κᾷτ᾽ ὀφλὼν ἀ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄπελθε τουτονὶ λαβών take him and be off! [Refs 5th c.BC+]

4. with participle, ἀ. νικῶν come off conqueror, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

5. spread abroad, ἀπῆλθεν ἡ ἀκοὴ αὐτοῦ εἰς Συρίαν[NT]

II. depart from life, ἀ. κάτω[Refs 5th c.BC+]

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