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ἀπολούω

apoloúō · G628 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to purify, to cause to be pure

    To cause a state of moral purity

    Examples

    Acts 22:16 ‘Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins by calling on His name.’

    1 Corinthians 6:11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

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 purify, to cause to be pure88.30
In Acts 22:16, Ananias tells Paul, “get up and be baptized, and wash away (apólousai) your sins by calling on His name,” describing moral cleansing pictured through washing.
Word family 3 words

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

λούω loúō · G3068 · to bathe, to wash · 5×ἀπολούωapoloúō · G628λουτρόν loutrón · G3067 · washing, baptism · 2×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : to wash off or away; in the N. T. twice in 1 aorist middle figuratively (cf. Philo de…
: to wash off or away; in the N. T. twice in 1 aorist middle figuratively (cf. Philo de mut. nom. § 6, i., p. 585, Mang. edition): ἀπελούσασθε, 1 Cor 6:11; βάπτισαι καί ἀπόλουσαι τάς ἁμαρτίας σου, Acts 22:16. For the sinner is unclean, polluted as it were by the filth of his sins. Whoever obtains remission of sins has his sins put, so to speak, out of God's sight — is cleansed from them in the sight of God. Remission is (represented as) obtained by undergoing baptism; hence, those who have gone down into the baptismal bath (lavacrum, cf. Tit 3:5; Eph 5:26) are said ἀπολούσασθαι to have washed themselves, or τάς ἁμαρτίας ἀπολούσασθαι to have washed away their sins, i. e. to have been cleansed from their sins.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Holy, Pure2 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

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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