Strong G525ἀπαλλάσσω

to release

Transliteration
apallassō
Pronunciation
ap-al-las'-so
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G575 and G236; to change away that is release (reflexively) remove: - deliver depart.

Detailed definition

ἀπ-αλλάσσω
[in LXX for סוּר hi., etc.;]
to remove, release: Heb.2:15; pass., to depart: Act.19:12; in legal sense (MM, VGT, see word), before ἀπό, with genitive of person(s), to be quit of: Luk.12:58 (Cremer, 90, 632).†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G525 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • deliver1
  • delivered1
  • depart1

First verses

  1. Luke 12:58
    When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.
  2. Acts 19:12
    So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
  3. Hebrews 2:15
    And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
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ἀπαλλάσσω,
Attic dialect ἀπαλλάττω, future -ξω[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.52)]: perfect ἀπήλλᾰχα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.13.6)]: aorist ἀπήλλαξα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.16, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1537, etc.)]:—passive, perfect ἀπήλλαγμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Pax” 1128, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.49)], Ionic dialect ἀπάλλαγμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.144, 167:)]aorist ἀπηλλάχθην, Ionic dialect ἀπαλλ-[Refs ([prev. author] 2.152, etc.)]; in Attic dialect ἀπηλλάγην [ᾰ] as always in Prose; also in Trag. (for the most part for the sake of meter, compare however [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 422, “El.” 783 (variant), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 592 (variant), “Andr.” 592))]: future ἀπαλλαχθήσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Hipp.” 356, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 940; in Prose, ἀπαλλαγήσομαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.28, etc.:)] —middle, future (in passive sense) ἀπαλλάξομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.122, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 437, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.83, etc.)]: aorist ἀπαηλλάξαντο[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 317, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 64.)]
A. active, set free, deliver from a thing, παιδίον δυσμορφίης[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.61)]; τινὰ πόνων, κακῶν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 83, “Pr.” 773; τινὰ ἐκ γόων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 292; ἐκ φόβου καὶ κακῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.59)]: with accusative only, release, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 596, etc.; κόπος μ᾽ ἀ. [prev. author] “Ph.” 880.)]
2 put away from, remove from, τί τινος, as ἀ. γῆς πρόσωπον, φρενῶν ἔρωτα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 27, “Hipp.” 774 (Lyric poetry); σφαγῆς χεῖρα “IT” 994; χρυσὸν χερός “Hec.” 1222)]; ἀ. τινά τινος take away or remove from one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 1046; τινὰ ἀπὸ τῆς πολιορκίας 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 43.32.)]
3 with accusative only, put away, remove, τι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1068, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 354d, etc.)]; μύθοις ἔργ᾽ ἀ. κακά do away ill by words, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 282.26)]; get rid of creditors, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.122; τοὺς χρήστας 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 5.28)]; get rid of an opponent, by fair means or foul, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.37; ἀ. τοὺς κατηγόρους 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 29.1; τοὺς Πελοποννησίους ἐκ τῆς χώρας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.48)]; dismiss, send away, τινά[Refs ([prev. author] 1.90)]; remove or displace from an office,[Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work] 129; ἀ. τοὺς ὑπηρέτας καὶ θεραπευτῆρας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 11)]; also, make away with, destroy, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.15.2; ἑαυτόν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 70)]; bring to an end, λόγον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 790.)]
4 in Law, give a release, discharge, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.25, compare 37.1; τοὺς δανείσαντας ἀ. 34.22, compare “PTeb.” 315.16 (2nd c.AD))]; discharge a debt, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 59.1, etc.)]:—so in passive, [Refs ([prev. author] 51.17.)]
II intransitive, get off free, escape, especially with an adverb added, ῥηιδίως, χαλεπῶς ἀ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 10, 20, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.5; ὁ στόλος οὕτως ἀ.)]came off, ended, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.63, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1288, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 786; οὐκ ὡς ἤθελε ἀπήλλαξεν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.16; κάκιον ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 491d, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 199; καταγελάστως ἀ. 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.38; ἀλυσιτελῶς ἀ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 8.11)]; ἀλύπως ἀ. get along well, [Refs (“PPetr.” 3p.58)]: with participle or adjective, χαίρων[Refs 5th c.BC+ (ἀ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.69; ἀθῷοι ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 254d, etc.)]: with genitive, depart from, βίου[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 302 (uncertain reading); τοῦ ζῆν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 367c; so πῶς ἀπήλλαχεν ἐκ τῆς ὁδο; 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.13.6; ἄριστ᾽ ἀπαλλάττεις ἐπὶ τούτου τοῦ κύβου)]in respect of.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 73.)]
B. passive and middle, to be set free or released from a thing, get rid of it, ἀπαλλαχθέντας δουλοσύνης[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.170; τυράννων [prev. author] 5.78; τῶν παρεόντων κακῶν [prev. author] 2.120; πημονῆς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 471; φόβου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 783; πραγμάτων τε καὶ μαχῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 293; στρατιᾶς [prev. author] “Ach.” 251; Κλέωνος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.28; τῆς κακουχίας ἐπὶ τὴν αὑτοῦ σκηνήν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.15.6.)]
B.2 get off, escape, mostly with some adjective or adverb added (as in active [Refs 5th c.BC+ (11), ῥηιδίως ἀ. 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 3; ἀγῶνος ἀ. καλῶς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 346)]; ἀζήμιος ἀπαλλαγῆναι, ἀπαλλάττεσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 271, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 721d.)]
B.3 absolutely, to be acquitted, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.39.)]
B.4 of a point under discussion, to be dismissed as settled, τοῦτο ἀπήλλακται μὴ.. τὸ φίλον φίλον εἶναι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 220b, compare “Phlb.” 67a.)]
B.II remove, depart from, ἐκ τῆς χώρης, ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.61, 2.139, +others; μαντικῶν μυχῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 180; γῆς ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι πόδα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 729; δόξης, δέους 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.42; ἀ. παρά τινος 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.78)]; depart, go away, ἐς τὴν ἑωυτοῦ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.82, +others; ἐπὶ τῆς ἑωυτοῦ [prev. author] 9.11, compare 5.64; πρὸς χώραν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 938a: _absolutely_, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.93, +others, Aen. Tact. 10.19, 15.9.)]
B.II.2 ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι τοῦ βίου depart from life, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 102, “Hipp.” 356; βίου ἀπαλλαγὴν ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 496e)]; frequently without τοῦ βίου, depart, die, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 1000, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 81c, etc.)]
B.II.3 ἀ. λέχους to be divorced, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 592; ἀ. γυναῖκά τε ἀπ᾽ ἀνδρὸς καὶ τὸν ἄνδρα ἀπὸ γυναικός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 868d.)]
B.II.4 ἀ. τῶν διδασκάλων leave school, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Grg.” 514c, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.24.)]
B.II.5 ἀ. ἐκ παίδων become a man, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.40.)]
B.II.6 to be removed from, free from the imputation of, ἀπηλλαγμένος εὐηθίης many removes from folly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.60; ξυμφορῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.122; αἰσχύνης [prev. author] 3.63: with)]infinitive, κρῖναι ἱκανῶς οὐκ ἀπήλλακτο was not far from judging adequately, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.138.)]
B.II.6.b πολλὸν ἀπηλλαγμένος τινός far inferior to him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.144.)]
B.II.7 depart from, leave off from, τῶν μακρῶν λόγων[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1335; σκωμμάτων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 316; ἀ. λημμάτων)]give up the pursuit of.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.33)]; οὐκ ἀπήλλακται γραφικῆς is not averse from.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Salt.” 35.)]
B.II.7.b absolutely, have done, cease, of things, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 422; ὅταν ἡ μέθη ἀπαλλαγῇ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Magna Moralia” 1202a3.)]
B.II.7.c throw up one's case, give up a prosecution, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.151,198.)]
B.II.7.d with participle, εἰπὼν ἀπαλλάγηθι speak and be done withit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 491c, compare “Tht.” 183c; ταῦτα μαντευσάμενος ἀπαλλάττομαι [prev. author] “Ap.” 39d; ἀπαλλάχθητι πυρώσας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 600)]: also in participle, with a Verb, οὐκοῦν ἀπαλλαχθεὶς ἄπε; make haste and begone, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 244.)]
B.II.8 to depart from enmity, i.e. to be reconciled, settle a dispute, πρὸς ἀλλήλους[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 915c: _absolutely_, [prev. work] 768c.)]
B.II.9 recover from an ailment, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.14.)]