ἀπό

apo

Greek G0575 Preposition 646 occurrences in 591 verses
ἀπό away from

ἀπό (on the frequently neglect of elision bef. vowels, see Tdf., Pr., 94, WH, App., 146),

prep. with genitive (WM, 462ff.; on its relation to ἐκ, παρά, ὑπό, ib. 456f.), [in LXX for לְ ,בְּ ,מִן ;]

from (i.e. from the exterior).

1. Of separation and cessation;

(1) of motion from a place: Mat.5:29, 30 7:23, Luk.5:2 22:41, al.;

(2) in partitive sense (M, Pr., 72, 102, 245; MM, see word; Bl., §40, 2), Mat.9:16 27:21, Jhn.21:10, Act.5:2, al.; also after verbs of eating, etc.;

(3) of alienation (cl. genitive of separation), after such verbs as λούω (Deiss., BS, 227), λύω, σώζω, παύω, etc.; ἀνάθεμα ἀ., Rom.9:3; ἀποθνήσκειν ἀ., Col.2:20; σαλευθῆναι, 2Th.2:2, καθαρός, -ίζειν, ἀ. (Deiss., BS, 196, 216), Act.20:26, 2Co.7:1, Heb.9:14;

(4) of position, Mat.23:34 24:31, al.; after μακράν, Mat.8:30; transposed before measures of distance, Jhn.10:18 21:8, Rev.14:20 (Abbott, JG, 227);

(5) of time, ἀπὸ τ. ὥρας, ἡμέρας, etc., Mat.9:22, Jhn.19:27, Act.20:18, Php.1:5, al.; ἀπ᾽ αἰῶνος, Luk.1:70, al.; ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς, etc., Mat.19:4, Rom.1:20; ἀπὸ βρέφους, 2Ti.3:15; ἀφ᾽ ἧς, since, Luk.7:45, al.; ἀπὸ τ. νῦν, Luk.1:48, al.; ἀπὸ τότε, Mat.4:17, al.; ἀπὸ πέρυσι, a year ago, 2Co.8:10 9:2; ἀπὸ πρωΐ, Act.28:23;

(6) of order or rank, ἀπὸ διετοῦς, Mat.2:16; ἀπὸ Ἀβραάμ, Mat.1:17; ἐβδομος ἀπὸ Ἀδάμ, Ju 14; ἀπὸ μικροῦ ἕως μεγάλου, Act.8:10, Heb.8:11; ἄρχεσθαι ἀπό, Mat.20:8, Jhn.8:9, Act.8:35, al.

2. Of origin;

(1) of birth, extraction, and hence, in late writers,

(a) of local extraction (cl. ἐξ; Abbott, JG, 227ff.), Mat.21:11, Mrk.15:43, Jhn.1:45, Act.10:38, al.; οἱ ἀπὸ Ἰταλίας (WM, §66, 6; M, Pr., 237; Westc, Rendall, in l.), Heb.13:24;

(b) of membership in a community or society (BL, §40, 2), Act.12:1, al.;

(c) of material (= cl. genitive; Bl. l.with; M, Pr., 102), Mat.3:4 27:21;

(d) after verbs of asking, seeking, etc., Luk.11:50, 51 1Th.2:6 (Milligan, in l.);

(2) of the cause, instrument, means or occasion (frequently = ὑπό, παρά, and after verbs of learning, hearing, knowing, etc.; Bl., §40, 3), Mat.7:16 11:29, Luk.22:45, Act.2:22 4:36 9:13 12:14, 1Co.11:23, Gal.3:2, al.; ἀπὸ τ. ὄχλου, Luk.19:3 (cf. Jhn.21:6, Act.22:11); ἀπὸ τ. φόβου, Mat.14:26, al. (cf. Mat.10:26 13:44).

3. Noteworthy Hellenistic phrases: φοβεῖσθαι ἀπό (M, Pr., 102, 107); προσέχειν ἀπό (M, Pr., 11. with; Milligan, NTD, 50); ἀπὸ νότου (Heb. מִגֶּנֶב), Rev.21:13; ἀπὸ προσώπου (מִפְּנֵי), 2Th.1:9 (Bl., §40, 9); ἀπὸ τ. καρδιῶν (בְּלֵב), Mat.18:35; ἀπὸ ὁ ὤν (WM, §10, 2; M, Pr., 9), Rev.1:4.

4. In composition, ἀπό denotes separation, departure, origin, etc. (ἀπολύω, ἀπέρχομαι, ἀπογράφω); it also has a perfective force (M, Pr., 112, 247), as in ἀφικνεῖσθαι, which see

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Concordance 591 verses

  1. Acts 15:1 ἀπὸ

    Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

  2. Acts 15:4 ἀπὸ

    On their arrival in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and apostles and elders, to whom they reported all that God had done through them.

  3. Acts 15:5 ἀπὸ

    But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”

  4. Acts 15:7 ἀφ’

    After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.

  5. Acts 15:18 ἀπ’

    that have been known for ages.’

  6. Acts 15:19 ἀπὸ

    It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not cause trouble for the Gentiles who are turning to God.

  7. Acts 15:33 ἀπὸ

    After spending some time there, they were sent off by the brothers in peace to return to those who had sent them.

  8. Acts 15:38 ἀπ’ἀπὸ

    But Paul thought it best not to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.

  9. Acts 15:39 ἀπ’

    Their disagreement was so sharp that they parted company. Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus,

  10. Acts 16:11 ἀπὸ

    We sailed from Troas straight to Samothrace, and the following day on to Neapolis.

  11. Acts 16:18 ἀπ’

    She continued this for many days. Eventually Paul grew so aggravated that he turned and said to the spirit, “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!” And the spirit left her at that very moment.

  12. Acts 16:33 ἀπὸ

    At that hour of the night, the jailer took them and washed their wounds. And without delay, he and all his household were baptized.

  13. Acts 16:39 ἀπὸ

    They came to appease them and led them out, requesting that they leave the city.

  14. Acts 16:40 ἀπὸ

    After Paul and Silas came out of the prison, they went to Lydia’s house to see the brothers and encourage them. Then they left the city.

  15. Acts 17:2 ἀπὸ

    As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

  16. Acts 17:13 ἀπὸ

    But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.

  17. Acts 17:27 ἀπὸ

    God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

  18. Acts 18:2 ἀπὸἀπὸ

    There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,

  19. Acts 18:5 ἀπὸ

    And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself fully to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

  20. Acts 18:6 ἀπὸ

    But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

  21. Acts 18:16 ἀπὸ

    And he drove them away from the judgment seat.

  22. Acts 18:21 ἀπὸ

    But as he left, he said, “I will come back to you if God is willing.” And he set sail from Ephesus.

  23. Acts 19:9 ἀπ’

    But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

  24. Acts 19:12 ἀπὸἀπ’

    so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.

  25. Acts 20:6 ἀπὸ

    And after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and five days later we rejoined them in Troas, where we stayed seven days.

  26. Acts 20:9 ἀπὸἀπὸ

    And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.

  27. Acts 20:17 Ἀπὸ

    From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church.

  28. Acts 20:18 ἀπὸἀφ’

    When they came to him, he said, “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.

  29. Acts 20:26 ἀπὸ

    Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

  30. Acts 21:1 ἀπ’

    After we had torn ourselves away from them, we sailed directly to Cos, and the next day on to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

  31. Acts 21:7 ἀπὸ

    When we had finished our voyage from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for a day.

  32. Acts 21:10 ἀπὸ

    After we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

  33. Acts 21:16 ἀπὸ

    Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us, and they took us to stay at the home of Mnason the Cypriot, an early disciple.

  34. Acts 21:21 ἀπὸ

    But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.

  35. Acts 21:27 ἀπὸ

    When the seven days were almost over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,

  36. Acts 22:11 ἀπὸ

    Because the brilliance of the light had blinded me, my companions led me by the hand into Damascus.

  37. Acts 22:22 ἀπὸ

    The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”

  38. Acts 22:29 ἀπ’

    Then those who were about to interrogate Paul stepped back, and the commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put a Roman citizen in chains.

  39. Acts 23:21 ἀπὸ

    Do not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”

  40. Acts 23:23 ἀπὸ

    Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.

  41. Acts 23:34 ἀπὸ

    The governor read the letter and asked what province Paul was from. Learning that he was from Cilicia,

  42. Acts 24:11 ἀφ’

    You can verify for yourself that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

  43. Acts 24:18 ἀπὸ

    At the time they found me in the temple, I was ceremonially clean and was not inciting a crowd or an uproar. But there are some Jews from the province of Asia

  44. Acts 25:1 ἀπὸ

    Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,

  45. Acts 25:7 ἀπὸ

    When Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges that they could not prove.

  46. Acts 26:4 ἀπ’

    Surely all the Jews know how I have lived from the earliest days of my youth, among my own people and in Jerusalem.

  47. Acts 26:18 ἀπὸ

    to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

  48. Acts 26:22 ἀπὸ

    But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:

  49. Acts 27:21 ἀπὸ

    After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete. Then you would have averted this disaster and loss.

  50. Acts 27:34 ἀπὸ

    So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”

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