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ἀποκαταλλάσσω

apokatallássō · G604 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to reconcile, to make things right with one another, reconciliation

    To reestablish proper friendly interpersonal relations after these have been disrupted or broken (the componential features of this series of meanings involve (1) disruption of friendly relations because of (2) presumed or real provocation (3) overt behavior designed to remove hostility, and (4) restoration of original friendly relations)

    Examples

    Ephesians 2:16 and that He might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the hostility.

    Colossians 1:20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

    Colossians 1:22 yet He has now reconciled you in His body of flesh through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach—

How it’s used In 6 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

3 occurrences in 3 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

To or for whomIndirect object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 5 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 reconcile, to make things right with one another, reconciliation40.1
In Colossians 1:20, Paul writes that God was pleased “through Him to reconcile (apokatalláxai) all things to Himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross,” describing estranged relationships set right again.
Word family 20 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἄλλος állos · G243 · different, differently, other than · 154×ἀλλά allá · G235 · but, instead, on the contrary · 638×ἀλλήλων allḗlōn · G240 · each other, one another · 100×ἀλλότριος allótrios · G245 · belonging to another, belonging to someone else, stranger · 14×ἀλλάσσω allássō · G236 · to change, to alter, to make different · 6×καταλλάσσω katallássō · G2644 · to reconcile, to make things right with one another, reconciliation · 6×καταλλαγή katallagḗ · G2643 · to reconcile, to make things right with one another, reconciliation · 4×ἀπαλλάσσω apallássō · G525 · to release, to set free, to settle with · 3×ἀπαλλοτριόω apallotrióō · G526 · to be a stranger, to be a foreigner · 3×ἀποκαταλλάσσωapokatallássō · G604ἀλλαχόθεν allachóthen · G237 · from elsewhere, from some other way · 2×ἀντάλλαγμα antállagma · G465 · something given in exchange · 2×μεταλλάσσω metallássō · G3337 · to exchange, to substitute, to cease and to start · 2×ἀλληγορέω allēgoréō · G238 · to speak allegorically, to employ an analogy, to use a likeness · 1×ἀλλογενής allogenḗs · G241 · foreigner · 1×ἀλλοτριεπίσκοπος allotriepískopos · G244 · busybody, meddler · 1×ἀλλόφυλος allóphylos · G246 · foreigner, heathen, pagan · 1×ἄλλως állōs · G247 · different, differently, other than · 1×διαλλάσσω diallássō · G1259 · to be reconciled, to make peace with · 1×παραλλαγή parallagḗ · G3883 · change · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon or ἀποκαταλλάττω: 1 aorist ἀποκατηλλαξα; 2 aorist passive ἀποκατηλλαγητε (Colossians…
or ἀποκαταλλάττω: 1 aorist ἀποκατηλλαξα; 2 aorist passive ἀποκατηλλαγητε (Colossians 1:22-21L Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading); to reconcile completely (ἀπό) (others, to reconcile back again, bring back to a former state of harmony; Ellicott on Eph 2:16; Lightfoot or Bleek on Col 1:20; Winers De verb. comp. etc. Part iv., p. 7f; yet see Meyer on Ephesians, the passage cited; Fritzsche on Romans, vol. i., p. 278; (see ἀπό V.)) (cf. καταλλάσσω): Col 1:22 (21) (cf. Lightfoot at the passage); τινα τίνι, Eph 2:16; concisely, πάντα εἰς αὑτόν (better αὐτόν with editions; cf. Buttmann, p. 111 (97) and under the word αὑτοῦ), to draw to himself by reconciliation, or so to reconcile that they should be devoted to himself, Col 1:20 (Winer's Grammar, 212 (200) but cf. § 49, a. c. d.). (Found neither in secular authors nor in the Greek O. T.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Reconciliation3 occurrences

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

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