ἀπέρχομαι
aperchomai
to go away
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredAccording to the given data, the Greek word ἀπέρχομαι (transliterated as aperchomai) is associated with the meaning "to go away." This word appears 120 times in the Bible, indicating its widespread usage throughout various contexts. The definition suggests that the word is connected to movement and separation, where an individual or a thing is moving away from a particular location or situation. The frequency of its occurrence implies that this concept of "going away" is significant in the biblical narrative. It may refer to physical departure, such as leaving a place, or metaphorical departure, such as moving away from a particular situation or relationship. Without further analysis, it is impossible to precisely define its range of usage or specific themes it may represent. However, the sheer frequency of its occurrence underscores its importance in conveying various aspects of human experience and relationships within the biblical text.
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Occurrences in Scripture
120 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee,
Matthew 4:24The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.
Matthew 5:30If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
Matthew 8:18Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.
Matthew 8:19A scribe came, and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
Matthew 8:21Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
Matthew 8:32He said to them, “Go!” They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.
Matthew 8:33Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.
Matthew 9:7He arose and departed to his house.
Matthew 10:5Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.
Matthew 13:25but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.
Matthew 13:28“He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’
Matthew 13:46who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Matthew 14:15When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, “This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food.”
Matthew 14:16But Jesus said to them, “They don’t need to go away. You give them something to eat.”
Matthew 16:4An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed.
Matthew 16:21From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
Matthew 18:30He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.
Matthew 19:22But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.
Matthew 20:5Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.
Matthew 21:29He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went.
Matthew 21:30He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go.
Matthew 22:5But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,
Matthew 22:22When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.
Matthew 25:10While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.
Matthew 25:18But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
Matthew 25:25I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’
Matthew 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Matthew 26:36Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go there and pray.”
Matthew 26:42Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”
Matthew 26:44He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.
Matthew 27:5He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.
Mark 11:4They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.
Matthew 27:60and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.
Matthew 28:8They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.
Matthew 28:10Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me.”
Mark 1:20Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
Mark 1:35Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.
Mark 1:42When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean.
Mark 3:13He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.
Mark 5:17They began to beg him to depart from their region.
Mark 5:20He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.
Mark 5:24He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides.
Mark 6:27Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
Mark 6:32They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.
Mark 6:36Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.”
Mark 6:37But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?”
Mark 6:46After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.
Mark 7:24From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t escape notice.
Mark 7:30She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.