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ἀπέρχομαι

To go away

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ἀπέρχομαι G565
Pronunciation apérchomai

What does ἀπέρχομαι (apérchomai) mean in the Bible?

ἀπέρχομαι (apérchomai) is a Greek word meaning "to go away". ἀπέρχομαι, [in LXX chiefly for הלךְ ;] __1.

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Meaning

to go away
Extended definition

Departure with directional completion; often followed by another verb to express sequential action in narrative.

1to 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., 111f., 247; MM, see word);
aabsol.: Mat.13:25, al.; ptcp., ἀπελθών, used pleonastically with other verbs as in Heb. (Dalman, Words, 21), Mat.13:28, al.;
bwith mention of place or person: εἰς, Mat.14:15; ἐπί, Luk.24:24; πρός, Rev.10:9; ἀπό, Luk.1:38; ἐξω, Act.4:15; ἐκεῖ, Mat.2:22.
2As in LXX, before ὀπίσω, with genitive (Heb. הָלַךְ אַחֲרֵי), to go after, follow: Mrk.1:20, Jhn.12:19; metaphorically, Mrk.1:42, Rev.21:1.
Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Grammatical Forms

How mood, tense, and voice shift the force of this verb in context.

Tenses
Aorist Present Future Pluperfect Perfect
Voices
Active Middle
Indicative states a fact or reality 66×
Aorist Active Matt 4:24 · Matt 9:7 · Matt 13:25 · Matt 16:4 · Matt 19:22 · Matt 21:29 · Matt 21:30 · Matt 27:60 · Mark 1:35 · Mark 1:42 · Mark 5:20 · Mark 5:24 · Mark 6:46 · Mark 7:24 · Mark 8:13 · Mark 10:22 61×
Future Middle Matt 25:46 · John 6:68 · Rom 15:28 3×
Pluperfect Active John 4:8 1×
Perfect Active Jas 1:24 1×
Participle verbal adjective — the action as a modifying quality 31×
Aorist Active Matt 13:46 · Matt 18:30 · Matt 25:18 · Matt 25:25 · Matt 26:36 · Matt 26:42 · Matt 26:44 · Matt 27:5 · Mark 6:27 · Mark 14:39 · Luke 5:14 · Luke 9:60 · Luke 22:4 · John 9:11 · John 12:36 · Acts 5:26 30×
Present Middle Matt 25:10 1×
Infinitive verbal noun — the action in abstract 12×
Aorist Active Matt 2:22 · Matt 8:18 · Matt 8:21 · Matt 14:16 · Matt 16:21 · Mark 5:17 · Mark 9:43 · Luke 8:31 · Luke 8:37 · Acts 4:15 · Acts 16:39 11×
Present Middle Acts 23:32 1×
Subjunctive possibility, probability, or purpose 8×
Aorist Active Matt 10:5 · Luke 17:23 · John 16:7 · Matt 5:30 · Matt 28:10 6×
Present Middle Matt 8:19 · Luke 9:57 2×
117 total occurrences across all forms in the biblical text Morphology: MorphGNT SBLGNT — CC BY-SA 3.0
Discourse Aspect

How this verb appears across 117 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).

Aspect
completed 61 prospective 3 resultant 2 subjunctive 8 infinitive 12 participle 31
Tense
aorist 108 present 4 future 3 perfect 1 pluperfect 1
Voice
active 110 middle 7
Mood
indicative 66 participle 31 infinitive 12 subjunctive 8
NT Occurrences
Matthew 2:22 ἀπελθεῖν aorist active infinitive infinitive Matthew 4:24 ἀπῆλθεν aorist active indicative completed Matthew 5:30 ἀπέλθῃ aorist active subjunctive subjunctive Matthew 8:18 ἀπελθεῖν aorist active infinitive infinitive Matthew 8:19 ἀπέρχῃ present middle subjunctive subjunctive Matthew 8:21 ἀπελθεῖν aorist active infinitive infinitive Matthew 8:32 ἀπῆλθον aorist active indicative completed Matthew 8:33 ἀπελθόντες aorist active participle participle Matthew 9:7 ἀπῆλθεν aorist active indicative completed Matthew 10:5 ἀπέλθητε aorist active subjunctive subjunctive Matthew 13:25 ἀπῆλθεν aorist active indicative completed Matthew 13:28 ἀπελθόντες aorist active participle participle Matthew 13:46 ἀπελθὼν aorist active participle participle Matthew 14:15 ἀπελθόντες aorist active participle participle Matthew 14:16 ἀπελθεῖν aorist active infinitive infinitive Matthew 16:21 ἀπελθεῖν aorist active infinitive infinitive Matthew 16:4 ἀπῆλθεν aorist active indicative completed Matthew 18:30 ἀπελθὼν aorist active participle participle Matthew 19:22 ἀπῆλθεν aorist active indicative completed Matthew 20:5 ἀπῆλθον aorist active indicative completed Matthew 21:29 ἀπῆλθεν aorist active indicative completed Matthew 21:30 ἀπῆλθεν aorist active indicative completed Matthew 22:22 ἀπῆλθαν aorist active indicative completed Matthew 22:5 ἀπῆλθον aorist active indicative completed Matthew 25:10 ἀπερχομένων present middle participle participle Matthew 25:18 ἀπελθὼν aorist active participle participle Matthew 25:25 ἀπελθὼν aorist active participle participle Matthew 25:46 ἀπελεύσονται future middle indicative prospective Matthew 26:36 ἀπελθὼν aorist active participle participle Matthew 26:42 ἀπελθὼν aorist active participle participle Matthew 26:44 ἀπελθὼν aorist active participle participle Matthew 27:5 ἀπελθὼν aorist active participle participle Matthew 27:60 ἀπῆλθεν aorist active indicative completed Matthew 28:10 ἀπέλθωσιν aorist active subjunctive subjunctive Matthew 28:8 ἀπελθοῦσαι aorist active participle participle Mark 1:20 ἀπῆλθον aorist active indicative completed Mark 1:35 ἀπῆλθεν aorist active indicative completed Mark 1:42 ἀπῆλθεν aorist active indicative completed Mark 3:13 ἀπῆλθον aorist active indicative completed Mark 5:17 ἀπελθεῖν aorist active infinitive infinitive +77 more occurrences

Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.

Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)

Biblical Occurrences

Each occurrence shows the passage reference, the original language term as it appears in that context, its transliteration, and the contextual sense.

Biblical Witnesses
Luke 17:20-37 go away apérchomai Subjunctive · Aorist Active
to depart or withdraw from a place or presence
Appears In

Compound and idiomatic lexemes in which this word is a constituent. Follow a link to study the phrase and its other participating words.

μή · ἀπέρχομαι · μηδέ · διώκω G3361, G565, G3366, G1377
do not go away and do not pursue/run after
ἀπέρχομαι · ὀπίσω G565, G3694
go away backward, turn back
ἀπέρχομαι · ὀπίσω · πίπτω G565, G3694, G4098
went backward and fell
Word Pictures (Robertson)

A.T. Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament (1930–31) discusses this term in the following chapters. Open any chapter and go to the Word Pictures tab to read his verse-by-verse commentary.

John 16 — The Spirit’s Convicting Witness, the Disciples’ Sorrow Turned to Joy, and Christ’s Victory over the World John 18 — The Arrested King: Betrayal, Sovereign Surrender, Denial, Trial, and the Kingdom Not of This World John 6 — The Bread of Life, the Words of Eternal Life, and the Crisis of True Discipleship

A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament (1930–31) — public domain

Sources

MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0

Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0

STEPBible Data — CC BY 4.0

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