Word Summary
aporriptō: to throw away
Original Word: ἀπορρίπτωTransliteration: aporriptō
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-or-hrip'-to)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to throw away
Meaning: to throw away
Strong's Concordance
jump overboard
From apo and rhipto; to hurl off, i.e. Precipitate (oneself) -- cast.
see GREEK apo
see GREEK rhipto
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 641: ἀπορρίπτωἀπορρίπτω: 1 aorist
ἀπέρριψα (
T WH write with one rho
ῥ; see Rho); (from
Homer down);
to throw away, cast down; reflexively,
to cast oneself down:
Acts 27:43 (
R. V. cast themselves overboard). (So in
Lucian, ver. hist. 1, 30 variant; (
Chariton 3, 5, see D'Orville at the passage); cf.
Winers Grammar, 251 (236); (
Buttmann, 145 (127)).)