ἀφίημι in the New Testament

Definitions

Thayer

1) to send away
1a) to bid going away or depart
1a1) of a husband divorcing his wife
1b) to send forth, yield up, to expire
1c) to let go, let alone, let be
1c1) to disregard
1c2) to leave, not to discuss now, (a topic)
1c2a) of teachers, writers and speakers
1c3) to omit, neglect
1d) to let go, give up a debt, forgive, to remit
1e) to give up, keep no longer
2) to permit, allow, not to hinder, to give up a thing to a person
3) to leave, go way from one
3a) in order to go to another place
3b) to depart from any one
3c) to depart from one and leave him to himself so that all mutual claims are abandoned
3d) to desert wrongfully
3e) to go away leaving something behind
3f) to leave one by not taking him as a companion
3g) to leave on dying, leave behind one
3h) to leave so that what is left may remain, leave remaining
3i) abandon, leave destitute
Part of Speech: verb
Citing in TDNT: 1:509, 88

Strong

G863
From G575 and ἵημι hiêmi (to send; an intensive form of εἶμι eimi (to go)); to send forth, in various applications: - cry, forgive, forsake, lay aside, leave, let (alone, be, go, have), omit, put (send) away, remit, suffer, yield up.

Louw-Nida

GlossSection
j stop (state)13.37
k allow13.140
a dismiss15.43
b depart from15.48
(ἀφίημι τὸ πνεῦμα) die23.109
h reject31.63
(ἄφες τοὺς νεκροὺς θάψαι τοὺς ἑαυτῶν νεκρούς) that is not the issue33.137
e divorce34.78
f forgive40.8
g cancel a debt57.223
i stop (activity)68.43
c leave behind85.45
d leave in a place85.62
l produce90.50

Classical Greek Dictionaries

These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.

Perseus Digital Library

University of Chicago's Logion lexicon

Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen

Strong's dictionary

Crosswalk

Thayer's dictionary plus other information.

LaParola

From this site's dictionary (in Italian)

In the New Testament

SBL (also Westcott and Hort; Tischendorf; Byzantine)

3
1
11
1
1
5
1
15
15
10
3
3
3
1
3
2
1
19
1
1
3
1
1
2
5
6
4
5
2
1
2
2
4
1
1
1
2
Total143

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