Word Summary
aphaireō: to take from, take away
Original Word: ἀφαιρέωTransliteration: aphaireō
Phonetic Spelling: (af-ahee-reh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to take from, take away
Meaning: to take from, take away
Strong's Concordance
cut off, take away.
From apo and haireomai; to remove (literally or figuratively) -- cut (smite) off, take away.
see GREEK apo
see GREEK haireomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 851: ἀφαιρέωἀφαιρέω,
ἀφαίρω; future
ἀφαιρήσω (
Revelation 22:19 Rec. (from Erasmus, apparently on no Ms. authority; see
Tdf.'s note)), and
ἀφελῶ (ibid.
G L T Tr WH; on this rarer future cf. Alexander
Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 100); 2 aorist
ἀφεῖλον; 1 future passive
ἀφαιρεθήσομαι; middle, present
ἀφαιροῦμαι; 2 aorist
ἀφειλομην; (see
αἱρέω); in Greek writings from
Homer down;
to take from, take away, remove, carry off:
τί,
Luke 1:25;
to cut off, τό ὠτίον,
Matthew 26:51;
Mark 14:47 (
L T Tr WH τό ὠτάριον);
Luke 22:50 (
τό οὖς) (
τήν κεφαλήν τίνος, 1 Macc. 7:47; for
כָּרַת,
1 Samuel 17:51); to take away,
τί ἀπό with the genitive of a thing,
Revelation 22:19;
τί ἀπό with the genitive of person
Luke 10:42 (
T WH omit;
L Tr brackets
ἀπό) (
Genesis 31:31;
Job 36:7;
Proverbs 4:16 (
Alex.), etc.); middle (properly, to take away or bear off
for oneself),
Luke 16:3 (
Leviticus 4:10;
Micah 2:8; in Greek writings with a simple genitive for
ἀπό τίνος);
ἀφαιρεῖν τάς ἁμαρτίας to take away siins, of victims expiating them,
Hebrews 10:4 (
Jeremiah 11:15; Sir. 47:11); middle of God putting out of his sight, remembering no more, the sins committed by men, i. e., granting pardon for sins (see
ἁμαρτία, 2 a.):
Romans 11:27.