Word Summary
apallassō: to remove, release
Original Word: ἀπαλλάσσωTransliteration: apallassō
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-al-las'-so)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to remove, release
Meaning: to remove, release
Strong's Concordance
deliver, depart.
From apo and allasso; to change away, i.e. Release, (reflexively) remove -- deliver, depart.
see GREEK apo
see GREEK allasso
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 525: ἀπαλλάσσωἀπαλλάσσω: 1 aorist
ἀπηλλαξα; passive (present
ἀπαλλάσσομαι); perfect infinitive
ἀπηλλάχθαι; (
ἀλλάσσω to change;
ἀπό, namely,
τίνος); common in Greek writings;
to remove, release; passive
to be removed, to depart:
ἀπ' αὐτῶν τάς νόσους,
Acts 19:12 (
Plato, Eryx. 401 c.
εἰ αἱ νοσοι ἀπαλλαγειησαν ἐκ τῶν σωμάτων); in a transferred and especially in a legal sense,
ἀπό with the genitive of person, to be set free, the opponent being appeased and withdrawing the suit,
to be quit of one:
Luke 12:58 (so with a simple genitive of person
Xenophon, mem. 2, 9, 6). Hence, universally,
to set free, deliver:
τινα,
Hebrews 2:15; (in secular authors the genitive of the thing freed from is often added; cf. Bleek on Heb. vol. ii. 1, p. 339f).