Strong G520ἀπάγω

to lead away

Transliteration
apagō
Pronunciation
ap-ag'-o
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G575 and G71; to take off (in various senses): - bring carry away lead (away) put to death take away.

Detailed definition

ἀπ-άγω
[in LXX for נָהַג, הָלַךְ hi., etc.;]
to lead away: Luk.13:15, Act.23:17 24:7 (R, mg.), 1Co.12:2; esp. of leading to trial (so as law term in Attic), prison and death (MM, VGT, see word): Mat.26:57 27:2, 31, Mrk.14:44, 53 15:16, Luk.21:12 22:66 23:26, Act.12:19; of the direction of a way: Mat.7:13-14 (cf. συν-απ-άγω).†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G520 appears in 16 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • away11
  • lead11
  • leadeth2
  • bring1
  • should1
  • take1

First verses

  1. Matthew 7:13
    Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
  2. Matthew 7:14
    Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
  3. Matthew 26:57
    And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
  4. Matthew 27:2
    And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
  5. Matthew 27:31
    And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.
  6. Mark 14:44
    And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.
  7. Mark 14:53
    And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.
  8. Mark 15:16
    And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Pretorium; and they call together the whole band.
  9. Luke 13:15
    The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
  10. Luke 23:26
    And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
  11. John 18:13
    And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.
  12. John 19:16
    Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
  13. Acts 12:19
    And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Cesarea, and there abode.
  14. Acts 23:17
    Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him, and said, Bring this young man unto the chief captain: for he hath a certain thing to tell him.
  15. Acts 24:7
    But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
  16. 1 Corinthians 12:2
    Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀπάγω [ᾰγ],
lead away, carry off, ἀπάγουσι βόας καὶ ἴφια μῆλα[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.278; ἀ. τινὰ ἐκτόπιον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1340 (Lyric poetry), compare 1521, etc.)]; προσάγειν.., ἀπάγειν, bring near.., hold far off, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione et Corruptione” 336a18)]; ἀ. ἀχλὺν ἀπ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν remove it, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 7.6.2; τὸ ἱμάτιον ἀπὸ τοῦ τραχήλου 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 12)]; οὐκ ἀπάξετε ταῦτ; stop this fooling! [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 7.225a)]:—middle, take away for or with oneself, παρθένον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.196, compare 4.80, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1105, etc.)]; or that which is one's own, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.37, etc.)]:—passive, ἐς ὀξὺ ἀπηγμένας brought to a point, tapering off, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.64, compare 2.28, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 658b30.)]
2 lead away, draw off troops, τῆς στρατιῆς τὸ πολλόν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.164, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.28, +others; ἄπαγε τὸν ἵππον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 32.)]
2.b elliptically, retire, withdraw, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.126, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.1.34, +others; 'go off', 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus “Epit.” 3.3.)]
3 abduct, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.80, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 16)]:—passive, πρὸς ὕβριν -εσθαι[Refs ([prev. author] “Anach.” 13.)]
II bring back, bring home, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.326; ἀπήγαγεν οἴκαδε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.370, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 941, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.3.14; ἀ. ὀπίσω 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.117.)]
III return, render what one owes, pay, τὸν φόρον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 707, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.12, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.53)]; render service, honour, etc., κώμους πρὸς τάφον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1184; θεωρίαν εἰς Δῆλον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 58b.)]
IV arrest and carry off, ἀπάγετε αὐτὸν παρ᾽ ἐμέ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.114, cf 6.81; δεῖν κἀπάγειν ἐφίετο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 439)]:—passive, ἀπαχθέντας παρ᾽ ἑωυτόν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.119.)]
IV.2 law-term, bring before a magistrate and accuse [Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare (ἀπαγωγή 111), 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.85)]; ἀσεβείας for impiety, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.27; ἀ. ὡς θεσμοθέτας [prev. author] 23.31; ἀ. τοῖς ἕνδεκα [prev. author] 24.113)]; τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ -εσθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (Scholia 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1397a30cited in 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Amm.” 1.12.)]
IV.3 carry off to prison, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 486a, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 57; εἰς τὸ δεσμωτήριον 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.181, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.80, 35.47 (_passive_): _absolutely_, ὡς γόης ἀπαχθῆναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 80b; ἀπαχθείς 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 25.15.)]
V lead away, divert from the subject, especially by sophistry, ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄντος ἐπὶ τοὐναντίον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 262b; ἀ. τινὰ ἀπὸ τῆς ὑποθέσεως 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.242; ἀ. τὸ ὀργιζόμενον τῆς γνώμης)]divert.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.59; ἀπὸ δεινῶν ἀ. τὴν γνώμην [prev. work] 65.)]
V.b in Logic, reduce, εἰς ἀδύνατον[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Priora” 29b9)]:—impersonal in passive, ἀπῆκται ἄρα εἰς..[Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Pappus Mathematicus 798.11.)]
V.c in later Greek, reduce, drive an opposing disputant, ἐπὶ ψεῦδος[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.233)]; εἰς ἀντίφασιν, εἰς ἄτοπον, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Philoponus, Joannes Philosophus “in Aristotelis Analytica Priora commentaria - pars” 21.31, 58.14)]:—passive, εἰς ἀδύνατον ἀπαχθῆναι[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.7.25, compare 6th c.AD: Philoponus, Joannes Philosophus “in Aristotelis Analytica Priora commentaria - pars” 129.2.)]
V.2 receive, ἀπ᾽ ὄψεως.. τὰ δοξάζοντα ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 39b.)]
V.3 separate, ἀπάγεται καὶ χωρίζεται[Refs ([prev. author] “Phd.” 97b.)]
VI simply, carry, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ τόξον[Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 795a.)]