Strong G565ἀπέρχομαι

to go away

Transliteration
aperchomai
Pronunciation
ap-erkh'-om-ahee
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G575 and G2064; to go off (that is depart)6
aside (that is apart) or behind (that is follow) literally or figuratively: - come depart go (aside away back out . . . ways) pass away be past.

Detailed definition

ἀπέρχομαι,
[in LXX chiefly for הלךְ;]

1. 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., 111f., 247; MM, see word);
__(a) absol.: Mat.13:25, al.; ptcp., ἀπελθών, used pleonastically with other verbs as in Heb. (Dalman, Words, 21), Mat.13:28, al.;
__(b) with 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.

2. As 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.
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In the Bible

Strong G565 appears in 118 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • go81
  • depart26
  • come4
  • be2
  • thou2
  • way2
  • after1
  • away1
  • pass1
  • they1
  • while1

First verses

  1. Matthew 2:22
    But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
  2. Matthew 4:24
    And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
  3. Matthew 8:18
    Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.
  4. Matthew 8:19
    And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
  5. Matthew 8:21
    And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
  6. Matthew 8:31
    So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
  7. Matthew 8:32
    And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
  8. Matthew 8:33
    And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.
  9. Matthew 9:7
    And he arose, and departed to his house.
  10. Matthew 10:5
    These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
  11. Matthew 13:25
    But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
  12. Matthew 13:28
    He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
  13. Matthew 13:46
    Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
  14. Matthew 14:15
    And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
  15. Matthew 14:16
    But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
  16. Matthew 14:25
    And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
  17. Matthew 16:4
    A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
  18. Matthew 16:21
    From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
  19. Matthew 18:30
    And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.
  20. Matthew 19:22
    But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀπέρχομαι,
future -ελεύσομαι (Attic dialect future ἄπειμι): perfect -ελήλυθα: aorist -ῆλθον:— go away, depart from, with genitive, πάτρης[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.766; οἴκου 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.136, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1165, etc.; λόγου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 546; ἀ. ἀπὸ τοῦ βουλευτηρίου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.92; ἐκ τῆς χώρας [prev. author] 1.89, etc.: _metaphorically_, ἀ. ἐκ δακρύων)] cease from tears. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 205.)]
2 with εἰς, implying departure from one place and arrival at another, ἀ. ἐς τὰς Σάρδις[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.22; ἀ. εἰς Θουρίους οἰκήσοντες 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.12; παρά τινα 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 11)]; ἀ. ἐπ᾽ οἴκου depart homewards, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.92; ἀθῷος οἴκαδε 5th-6th c.BC: Archippus Comicus 40)]; ἀπῆλθεν ὅθεν.. went back to the place whence he came, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 481.3: _metaphorically_, ἀ. εἰς τὴν ἀρχαίαν φύσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 193c.)]
3 absolutely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.199, etc.)]; ταχεῖ᾽ ἀπέρχεται (i.e. ἡ νόσος) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 808)]; κᾷτ᾽ ὀφλὼν ἀ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 689)]; ἄπελθε τουτονὶ λαβών take him and be off! [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Av.” 948; ἀπελθόντος ἐνιαυτοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 954d; νυκτὸς -ομένης 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 315.)]
4 with participle, ἀ. νικῶν come off conqueror, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor 2.2 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Agesilaus” 7,etc.)]
5 spread abroad, ἀπῆλθεν ἡ ἀκοὴ αὐτοῦ εἰς Συρίαν[NT (NT.Matt.4.24.)]
II depart from life, ἀ. κάτω[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 379, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 818(Lyric poetry): _absolutely_, 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 3.6, “Anthologia Graeca” 11.335, compare 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.513, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.7.15; εἰς τοὺς θεούς “PPetr.” 2p.45 (3rd c.BC).)]