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ἀπό

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Definition

ἀπό (on the frequently neglect of elision bef. vowels, see Tdf., Pr., 94, WH, App., 146),

prep. with genitive (WM, 462ff.; on its relation to ἐκ, παρά, ὑπό, ib. 456f.), [in LXX for לְ ,בְּ ,מִן ;]

from (i.e. from the exterior).

1. Of separation and cessation;

(1) of motion from a place: Matthew 5:29, 30; 7:23, Luke 5:2; 22:41, al.;

(2) in partitive sense (M, Pr., 72, 102, 245; MM, see word; Bl., §40, 2), Matthew 9:16; 27:21, John 21:10, Acts 5:2, al.; also after verbs of eating, etc.;

(3) of alienation (cl. genitive of separation), after such verbs as λούω (Deiss., BS, 227), λύω, σώζω, παύω, etc.; ἀνάθεμα ἀ., Romans 9:3; ἀποθνήσκειν ἀ., Colossians 2:20; σαλευθῆναι, 2 Thessalonians 2:2, καθαρός, -ίζειν, ἀ. (Deiss., BS, 196, 216), Acts 20:26, 2 Corinthians 7:1, Hebrews 9:14;

(4) of position, Matthew 23:34; 24:31, al.; after μακράν, Matthew 8:30; transposed before measures of distance, John 10:18; 21:8, Revelation 14:20 (Abbott, JG, 227);

(5) of time, ἀπὸ τ. ὥρας, ἡμέρας, etc., Matthew 9:22, John 19:27, Acts 20:18, Philippians 1:5, al.; ἀπ᾽ αἰῶνος, Luke 1:70, al.; ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς, etc., Matthew 19:4, Romans 1:20; ἀπὸ βρέφους, 2 Timothy 3:15; ἀφ᾽ ἧς, since, Luke 7:45, al.; ἀπὸ τ. νῦν, Luke 1:48, al.; ἀπὸ τότε, Matthew 4:17, al.; ἀπὸ πέρυσι, a year ago, 2 Corinthians 8:10; 9:2; ἀπὸ πρωΐ, Acts 28:23;

(6) of order or rank, ἀπὸ διετοῦς, Matthew 2:16; ἀπὸ Ἀβραάμ, Matthew 1:17; ἐβδομος ἀπὸ Ἀδάμ, Jude 14; ἀπὸ μικροῦ ἕως μεγάλου, Acts 8:10, Hebrews 8:11; ἄρχεσθαι ἀπό, Matthew 20:8, John 8:9, Acts 8:35, al.

2. Of origin;

(1) of birth, extraction, and hence, in late writers,

(a) of local extraction (cl. ἐξ; Abbott, JG, 227ff.), Matthew 21:11, Mark 15:43, John 1:45, Acts 10:38, al.; οἱ ἀπὸ Ἰταλίας (WM, §66, 6; M, Pr., 237; Westc, Rendall, in l.), Hebrews 13:24;

(b) of membership in a community or society (BL, §40, 2), Acts 12:1, al.;

(with) of material (= cl. genitive; Bl. l.with; M, Pr., 102), Matthew 3:4; 27:21;

(d) after verbs of asking, seeking, etc., Luke 11:50, 51, 1 Thessalonians 2:6 (Milligan, in l.);

(2) of the cause, instrument, means or occasion (frequently = ὑπό, παρά, and after verbs of learning, hearing, knowing, etc.; Bl., §40, 3), Matthew 7:16; 11:29, Luke 22:45, Acts 2:22; 4:36; 9:13; 12:14, 1 Corinthians 11:23, Galatians 3:2, al.; ἀπὸ τ. ὄχλου, Luke 19:3 (cf. John 21:6, Acts 22:11); ἀπὸ τ. φόβου, Matthew 14:26, al. (cf. Matthew 10:26; 13:44).

3. Noteworthy Hellenistic phrases: φοβεῖσθαι ἀπό (M, Pr., 102, 107); προσέχειν ἀπό (M, Pr., 11. with; Milligan, NTD, 50); ἀπὸ νότου (Heb. מִגֶּנֶב), Revelation 21:13; ἀπὸ προσώπου (מִפְּנֵי), 2 Thessalonians 1:9 (Bl., §40, 9); ἀπὸ τ. καρδιῶν (בְּלֵב), Matthew 18:35; ἀπὸ ὁ ὤν (WM, §10, 2; M, Pr., 9), Revelation 1:4.

4. In composition, ἀπό denotes separation, departure, origin, etc. (ἀπολύω, ἀπέρχομαι, ἀπογράφω); it also has a perfective force (M, Pr., 112, 247), as in ἀφικνεῖσθαι, which see

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as ἀπό:

Usage patterns

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

646 total
  1. Acts 17:27ἀπὸ · from
    God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.
  2. Acts 18:2ἀπὸ · from; ἀπὸ
    There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,
  3. Acts 18:5ἀπὸ · from
    And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself fully to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
  4. Acts 18:6ἀπὸ · From
    But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
  5. Acts 18:16ἀπὸ · from
    And he drove them away from the judgment seat.
  6. Acts 18:21ἀπὸ · from
    But as he left, he said, “I will come back to you if God is willing.” And he set sail from Ephesus.
  7. Acts 19:9ἀπ’
    But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
  8. Acts 19:12ἀπὸ; ἀπ’
    …so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.
  9. Acts 20:6ἀπὸ · from
    And after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and five days later we rejoined them in Troas, where we stayed seven days.
  10. Acts 20:9ἀπὸ; ἀπὸ · from
    And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.
  11. Acts 20:17Ἀπὸ · From
    From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church.
  12. Acts 20:18ἀπὸ · from; ἀφ’
    When they came to him, he said, “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.
  13. Acts 20:26ἀπὸ · of
    Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.
  14. Acts 21:1ἀπ’ · from
    After we had torn ourselves away from them, we sailed directly to Cos, and the next day on to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.
  15. Acts 21:7ἀπὸ · from
    When we had finished our voyage from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for a day.
  16. Acts 21:10ἀπὸ · from
    After we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
  17. Acts 21:16ἀπὸ · from
    Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us, and they took us to stay at the home of Mnason the Cypriot, an early disciple.
  18. Acts 21:21ἀπὸ
    But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.
  19. Acts 21:27ἀπὸ · from
    When the seven days were almost over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,
  20. Acts 22:11ἀπὸ
    Because the brilliance of the light had blinded me, my companions led me by the hand into Damascus.
  21. Acts 22:22ἀπὸ · of
    The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”
  22. Acts 22:29ἀπ’
    At once those who were about to interrogate Paul stepped back, and the commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put a Roman citizen in chains.
  23. Acts 23:21ἀπὸ
    Do not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”
  24. Acts 23:23ἀπὸ · in
    Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.
  25. Acts 23:34ἀπὸ · [he was] from
    The governor read the letter and asked what province Paul was from. Learning that he was from Cilicia,
  26. Acts 24:11ἀφ’ · ago
    You can verify for yourself that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.
  27. Acts 24:18ἀπὸ · from
    At the time they found me in the temple, I was ceremonially clean and was not inciting a crowd or an uproar. But there are some Jews from the province of Asia
  28. Acts 25:1ἀπὸ · from
    Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,
  29. Acts 25:7ἀπὸ · from
    When Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges that they could not prove.
  30. Acts 26:4ἀπ’ · from
    Surely all the Jews know how I have lived from my earliest childhood among my own people, and also in Jerusalem.
  31. Acts 26:18ἀπὸ · from
    …to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
  32. Acts 26:22ἀπὸ
    But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
  33. Acts 27:21ἀπὸ · from
    After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete. Then you would have averted this disaster and loss.
  34. Acts 27:34ἀπὸ · of
    So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”
  35. Acts 27:44ἀπὸ · of
    The rest were to follow on planks and various parts of the ship. In this way everyone was brought safely to land.
  36. Acts 28:3ἀπὸ · out
    Paul gathered a bundle of sticks, and as he laid them on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself to his hand.
  37. Acts 28:21ἀπὸ · from
    The leaders replied, “We have not received any letters about you from Judea, nor have any of the brothers from there reported or even mentioned anything bad about you.
  38. Acts 28:23ἀπό · from; ἀπὸ · from
    So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.
  39. Romans 1:7ἀπὸ · from
    To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  40. Romans 1:18ἀπ’ · from
    The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
  41. Romans 1:20ἀπὸ · since
    For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.
  42. Romans 5:9ἀπὸ · from
    Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!
  43. Romans 5:14ἀπὸ · from
    Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.
  44. Romans 6:7ἀπὸ · from
    For anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
  45. Romans 6:18ἀπὸ · from
    You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.