ἀποτρέπω
apotrépō · G665 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to shun, to avoid, to keep away from, to have nothing to do with
Purposely to avoid association with someone
Examples2 Timothy 3:5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these.
How it’s used In 2 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὗτοςthis 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- παραιτέομαι paraitéomai · G3868 · to ask for, to demand, to plead for
- Both terms denote shunning or avoidance — keeping away from something. παραιτέομαι has a broader range across several related senses beyond avoidance, but the specific sense of avoiding or shunning something is genuinely shared between the two terms.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To shun, to avoid, to keep away from, to have nothing to do with34.41
- In 2 Timothy 3:5, Paul describes people “holdng to a form of godliness although they have denied its power,” and instructs, “avoid (apotrépou) such people as these,” describing a deliberate refusal to associate with them.
Word family 29 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : (from Homer down); to turn away; middle (present ἀποτρέπομαι, imperative ἀποτρέπου) to…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
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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