ἀπέρχομαιapérchomai
to go off (i.e. depart), aside (i.e. apart) or behind (i.e. follow), literally or figuratively
Greek (New Testament) · G565
Meanings
1. to go away, depart
(a) absolutely: Matthew 13:25, and elsewhere; participle, ἀπελθών, used pleonastically with other verbs as in Heb., Matthew 13:28, and elsewhere
(b) with mention of place or person: εἰς, Matthew 14:15; ἐπί, Luke 24:24; πρός, Revelation 10:9; ἀπό, Luke 1:38; ἐξω, Acts 4:15; ἐκεῖ, Matthew 2:22.
2. As in LXX, followed by ὀπίσω, with genitive (Heb. הָלַךְ אַחֲרֵי), to go after, follow: Mark 1:20, John 12:19; metaphorically, Mark 1:42, Revelation 21:1.
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 115 times in the Bible.
- Matthew 2:22 But when he learned that the new ruler of Judea was Herod’s son Archelaus, he was afraid to go there. Then, after being warned in a dream, he left for the region of Galilee.
- Matthew 4:24 News about him spread as far as Syria, and people soon began bringing to him all who were sick. And whatever their sickness or disease, or if they were demon possessed or epileptic or paralyzed—he healed them all.
- Matthew 5:30 And if your hand—even your stronger hand—causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
- Matthew 8:18 When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he instructed his disciples to cross to the other side of the lake.
- Matthew 8:19 Then one of the teachers of religious law said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
- Matthew 8:21 Another of his disciples said, “Lord, first let me return home and bury my father.”
See every passage
- Matthew 2:22, 4:24, 5:30, 8:18, 8:19, 8:21, 8:32, 8:33, 9:7, 10:5, 13:25, 13:28, 13:46, 14:15, 14:16, 16:4, 16:21, 18:30, 19:22, 21:29, 21:30, 22:5, 22:22, 25:10, 25:18, 25:25, 25:46, 26:36, 26:42, 26:44, 27:5, 27:60, 28:8, 28:10
- Mark 1:20, 1:35, 1:42, 3:13, 5:17, 5:20, 5:24, 6:27, 6:32, 6:36, 6:37, 6:46, 7:24, 7:30, 8:13, 9:43, 10:22, 11:4, 12:12, 14:10, 14:12, 14:39
- Luke 1:23, 1:38, 2:15, 5:13, 5:14, 5:25, 7:24, 8:31, 8:37, 8:39, 9:57, 9:59, 9:60, 10:30, 17:23, 19:32, 22:4, 22:13, 24:12, 24:24
- John 4:3, 4:8, 4:28, 4:47, 5:15, 6:1, 6:22, 6:66, 6:68, 9:7, 9:11, 10:40, 11:28, 11:46, 11:54, 12:19, 12:36, 16:7, 18:6, 20:10
- Acts 4:15, 5:26, 9:17, 10:7, 16:39, 23:32
- Romans 15:28
- Galatians 1:17
- James 1:24
- Jude 1:7
- Revelation 9:12, 10:9, 11:14, 12:17, 16:2, 18:14, 21:1, 21:4
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.