Strong G620ἀπολείπω

to leave

Transliteration
apoleipō
Pronunciation
ap-ol-ipe'-o
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G575 and G3007; to leave behind (passively remain); by implication to forsake: - leave remain.

Detailed definition

ἀπο-λείπω
[in LXX for H2308 יָתַר, etc.;]
1. to leave, leave behind (in π. a term. techn. in wills; see MM, see word): 2Ti.4:13 4:20, Tit.1:5; pass., to be reserved, remain: Heb.4:6, 9 10:26.

2. to desert, abandon: Ju 6.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G620 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • leave3
  • remaineth3

First verses

  1. 2 Timothy 4:13
    The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.
  2. 2 Timothy 4:20
    Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.
  3. Hebrews 4:6
    Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
  4. Hebrews 4:9
    There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
  5. Hebrews 10:26
    For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
  6. Jude 1:6
    And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
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ἀπο-λείπω,
aorist ἀπέλῐπον (ἀπέλειψα late, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 25.310d, 1st c.AD(?): Pseudo-Phocylidea 77))]:—
A leave over or behind, οὐδ᾽ ἀπέλειπεν ἔγκατα[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.292, compare 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 56, etc.; κλέος καὶ φήμην 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 44 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]; bequeath, Test. Epict.[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2.3, compare 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 3.97)]; ἀ. κληρονόμον leave as one's heir, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 105.3 (2nd c.AD))]; bequeath to posterity, of writings, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 8.58, compare 7.54.)]
A.2 leave hold of, lose, ψυχάν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.101 (tmesis); βίον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ph.” (Lyric poetry, tmesis); νέαν ἁμέραν ἀπολιπὼν θάνοι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 720 (Lyric poetry): conversely, ἐμὲ μὲν ἀπολέλοιπεν ἤδη βίοτος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 185 (Lyric poetry). 3)]. leave behind in the race, distance: generally, surpass, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.25, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.4; τινὰ περί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.50)]:—more frequently in middle and passive, see below 4. leave undisputed: hence, admit, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.173, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Pietate - Herkulanische Studien” 17, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.55, 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 7.54; αἰτίαν νόσων ἀ. τὸ αἷμα 4th c.BC: Meno Medicus “Iatrika” 11.43; [ὁ Διοκλῆς] τὴν φρόνησιν περὶ τὴν καρδίαν ἀ. 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus)] middle in [Refs (“Rh.Mus.” 49.540.5)]. leave, allow, ὑπερβολὴν οὐδὲ ταῖς ἑταίραις[Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 7.210d.)]
A.II desert, abandon, one's post, etc., οὐδ᾽ ἀπολείπουσιν κοῖλον δόμον, of bees, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.169, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.41, +others)]; ἀ. (i.e. τὴν πολιορκίην) [Refs ([prev. author] 7.170)]; τὴν ξυμμαχίαν, τὴν ξυνωμοσίαν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.9, 64)]; of persons, καί σ᾽ ἀπολείψω σου λειπόμενος[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1310)]; ξεῖνον πατρώϊον ἀ. leave him in the lurch, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 521; ἀπολιπὼν οἴχεται 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.48, compare 5.103, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 83)]; of a wife, desert her husband, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.14, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 30.4)] (not of the husband, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sol.” 9))]; of sailors, desert, τὴν ναῦν[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 50.14.2. with)]infinitive, ἀ. τούτους κακῶς γηράσκειν leave them to grow old, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 1.22.3)]. leave undone or unsaid, ὅσα ἀπέλιπε κτείνων τε καὶ διώκων.. σφέα ἀπετέλεσε[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.92. ; ὕβρεως οὐδ᾽ ὁτιοῦν ἀ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.4, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 420a)]; omit, συχνὰ ἀπολείπω [Refs ([prev. work] 509c.)]
A.III leave open, leave a space, ἀ. μεταίχμιον οὐ μέγα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.77; ἀ. ὡς πλέθρον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.5.11)]; μικρὸν ἀ. leaving a small interval, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Automatopoetica” 27.1.)]
A.IV intransitive, cease, fail, τάων οὔποτε καρπὸς ἀπόλλυται οὐδ᾽ ἀπολείπει[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.117)]; opposed to γίνεται, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Diogenes Apolloniates Philosophus 7)]; of rivers, fall, sink, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.14, 93; ἀ. τὸ ῥέεθρον [prev. author] 2.19; τῆς θαλάττης τὰ μὲν ἀπολειπούσης, τὰ δ᾽ ἐπιούσης 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 353a22)]; of swallows, δι᾽ ἔτεος ἐόντες οὐκ ἀπολείπουσι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.22)]; of youth, begin to decay, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.14)]; fail, flag, lose heart, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 4.2.3)]; of the moon, wane, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 0.98a33.)]
A.IV.2 with genitive, to be wanting of or in a thing, προθυμίας οὐδὲν ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.22, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 533a: frequently of numbers, μηδὲν ἀ. τῶν πέντε κτλ. [prev. author] “Lg.” 828b; τῶν εἴκοσιν ὀλίγον ἀ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 573b16, etc.)]; ἀπὸ τεσσέρων πηχέων ἀ. τρεῖς δακτύλους wanting three fingers of four cubits, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.60, compare 7.117; μήτ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὑπερβάλλων βοὸς ὁπλὴν μήτ᾽ ἀπολείπων 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 489: with)]infinitive, ὀλίγον ἀπέλιπον ἐς Ἀθήνας ἀπικέσθαι wanted but little of coming, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.9. ; βραχὺ ἀ. διακόσιαι γενέσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.70; οὐδὲν δ᾽ ἀπολείπετε οὕτω πολεμεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.40; ἡ πόλις μικρὸν ἀπέλιπεν ἔρημος εἶναι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Tim.” I.)]
A.IV.3 with participle, leave off doing, ἀ. λέγων[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 6.1: _absolutely_, ὅθεν ἀπέλιπες)] from the point at which.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 497c, compare “Phd.” 78b, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 5.12.)]
A.IV.4 depart from, ἐκ τῶν Συρακουσῶν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.4; ἐκ τοῦ Μηδικοῦ πολέμου [prev. author] 3.10, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 112c.)]
B middle (aorist ἀπελιπόμην in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.399 (tmesis)), like)]active [Refs (1.1)], bequeath to posterity, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.134 codices)]; compare ἀπολείψεται· ἐάσεται, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
C passive, to be left behind, stay behind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.75 (variant for{ὑπο-}) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.20; μόνος ἀπολελειμμένος 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.3)]; to be unable to follow an argument, be at a loss, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 192d.)]
C.2 to be distanced by, inferior to, ἀ. [ἀπὸ] τῶν ἄλλων θηρίων[Refs (Diocl.fragment 145)]; to be inferior, ἔν τισι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.61.)]
C.II to be absent or distant from, with genitive, πολὺ τῆς ἀληθηΐης ἀπολελειμμένοι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.106, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 475d; ἥβας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 440 (Lyric poetry): with _genitive_ _person_, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.2.40, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 192d: _absolutely_, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 80, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 240c)]; to be deprived of, τοῦ σοῦ.. μὴ ἀπολείπεσθαι τάφου[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1169; πατρῴας μὴ ἀ. χθονός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 35; τῶν πρὶν ἀπολειφθεὶς φρενῶν [prev. author] “Or.” 216.)]
C.II.2 to be wanting in, fall short of, ὅτι τοῦ σκώπτειν ἀπελείφθη[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 525)]; τοῖς ἀπολειφθεῖσι (i.e. τῆς παιδείας[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.128, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.209)]; ἀπολειφθεὶς ἠμῶν without our cognizance, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.36; ἀπολειφθῆναι τῶν πραγμάτων)]to be left in ignorance of.., [Refs ([prev. author] 27.2)]; καιροῦ ἀ. miss the opportunity, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 34.38, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.19)]; θεάματος, ἑορτῆς ἀ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMar.” 15.1, “Sacr.” 1; εἰσβολῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 14.31.)]
C.II.3 remain to be done, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.39.12: _impersonal_, ἀπολείπεται λέγειν, διδάσκειν, 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 7.85, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.1.)]