ἀπολύω; [imperfect
ἀπέλυον]; future
ἀπολύσω; 1 aorist
ἀπέλυσα; passive, perfect
ἀπολέλυμαι; 1 aorist
ἀπελύθην; [future
ἀπολυθήσομαι]; imperfect middle
ἀπελυόμην (
Acts 28:25); used in the
N. T. only in the historical books and in
Hebrews 13:23;
to loose from, sever by loosening, undo [see
ἀπό, V.];
1. to set free:
τινά τινος (so in Greek writings even from Homer down), to liberate one from a thing (as from a bond),
Luke 13:12 (
ἀπολέλυσαι [thou hast been loosed
i. e.] be thou free from [cf. Winer's Grammar, § 40, 4]
τῆς ἀσθενείας [L T
ἀπὸ τ.
ἀσθ.]).
2. to let go, dismiss (to detain no longer);
τινά,
a. a suppliant to whom liberty to depart is given by a decisive answer:
Matthew 15:23;
Luke 2:29 ('me whom thou hadst determined to keep on earth until I had seen the salvation prepared for Israel, cf.
Luke 2:26, thou art now dismissing with my wish accomplished, and this dismission is at the same time dismission also from life' — in reference to which
ἀπολύειν is used in
Numbers 20:29; Tobit 3:6; [cf.
Genesis 15:2;
2 Macc. 7:9; Plutarch, consol. ad Apoll. § 13 cf. 11 at the end]); [
Acts 23:22].
b. to bid depart, send away:
Matthew 14:15,
22;
Matthew 15:32,
39;
Mark 6:36,
45;
Mark 8:3,
9;
Luke 8:38;
Luke 9:12;
Luke 14:4;
Acts 13:3;
Acts 19:41 (
τὴν ἐκκλησίαν); passive
Acts 15:30,
33.
3. to let go free, to release;
a. a captive,
i. e. to loose his bonds and bid him depart, to give him liberty to depart:
Luke 22:68 [R G L Tr in brackets];
Luke 23:22;
John 19:10;
Acts 16:35;
Acts 26:32 (
ἀπολελύσθαι ἐδύνατο [might have been set at liberty, cf. Buttmann, 217 (187), § 139, 27 c.; Winers Grammar, 305 (286)
i. e.] might be free; perfect as in
Luke 13:12 [see 1 above, and Winer's Grammar, 334 (313)]);
Acts 28:18;
Hebrews 13:23;
ἀπολ.
τινά τινι,
to release one to one, grant him his liberty:
Matthew 27:15,
17,
21,
26;
Mark 15:6,
9,
11,
15; [
Luke 23:16],
Luke 23:17 [R L in brackets],
Luke 23:18,
20,
25; [
John 18:39].
b. to acquit one accused of a crime and set him at liberty:
John 19:12;
Acts 3:13.
c. indulgently to grant a prisoner leave to depart:
Acts 4:21,
23;
Acts 5:40;
Acts 17:9.
d. to release a debtor,
i. e. not to press one's claim against him, to remit his debt:
Matthew 18:27; metaphorically, to pardon another his offences against me:
Luke 6:37 (
τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἀπολύεσθαι, 2 Macc. 12:45).
4. used of divorce, as
ἀπολύω τὴν γυναῖκα to dismiss from the house,
to repudiate:
Matthew 1:19;
Matthew 5:31;
Matthew 19:3,
7-9;
Mark 10:2,
4,
11;
Luke 16:18; [1 Esdr. 9:36]; and improperly a wife deserting her husband is said
τὸν ἄνδρα ἀπολύειν in
Mark 10:12 [cf. Diodorus 12, 18] (unless, as is more probable, Mark, contrary to historic accuracy [yet cf. Josephus, Antiquities 15, 7, 10], makes Jesus speak in accordance with Greek and Roman usage, according to which wives also repudiated their husbands [references in Meyer, at the passage]); (cf.
שִׁלַּח,
Jeremiah 3:8;
Deuteronomy 21:14;
Deuteronomy 22:19,
29).
5. Middle
ἀπολύομαι, properly, to send oneself away;
to depart [Winer's Grammar, 253 (238)]:
Acts 28:25 (returned home;
Exodus 33:11).
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