ἀποδημέω
apodēméō · G589 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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to leave home on a journey, to be away from home on a journey
To journey away from one’s home or home country, implying for a considerable period of time and at quite a distance
ExamplesMatthew 21:33 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A FENCE AROUND IT, AND DUG A WINE PRESS IN IT, AND BUILT A TOWER, and he leased it to vine-growers and went on a journey.
Matthew 25:14 “For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them.
Matthew 25:15 “To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 4
- ἄνθρωποςman, person, people 1
- υἱόςson 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- δοῦλοςslave, bondservant 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- εἰςto+ χώραcountry, region, land 1
- μετάwith, after+ ἡμέραday 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- λαλέωto speak 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- To leave home on a journey, to be away from home on a journey15.47
- In Matthew 25:14, Jesus compares the kingdom “like a man about to go on a journey (apodēmõn), who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them,” describing an owner leaving home for an extended absence.
Word family 42 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀποδήμω; 1 aorist ἀπεδήμησα; (ἀπόδημος, which see); to go away to foreign parts, go…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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