ἀφ-ίημι, [in LXX for נשׂא, נוח hi., נתן, סלח ni., עזב, etc. ;] 1. to send forth, send away, let go: of divorce (DB, iii, 274a), τ. γυναῖκα (Hdt.), 1Co.7:11-13; of death, τ. πνεῦμα (Gen.35:18, Hdt., al.), Mat.27:50; (φωνήν, to utter a cry, Mrk.15:37; of debts, to remit, forgive (cl.), τ. δανεῖον, Mat.18:27; τ. ὀφειλήν, Mat.18:32; esp. of sins (Cremer 296f.), τ. ἁμαρτίας, ἁμαρτήματα, ἀνομίας, Mat.9:2, Rom.4:7" (LXX), 1Jn.1:9, al.; punctiliar and iterative present (M, Pr., 119), Mrk.2:5, Luk.11:4; Ion. pf., ἀφέωνται (M, Pr., 38), Luk.5:23. 2. to leave alone, leave, neglect: Mat.4:11 5:24 15:14, Mrk.1:20, 31 Jhn.4:3, 28 al.; τ. ἐντολὴν τ. θεοῦ, Mrk.7:8; τον̀ τ. ἀρχῆς τ. Χριστοῦ λόγον, Heb.6:1; τ. ἀγάπην τ. πρώτην, Rev.2:4; ptcp., ἀφείς, pleonastic (as in Aram.; M, Pr., 14; Dalman, Words, 21f.), Mat.13:36 22:22, Mrk.8:13, al. 3. to let, suffer, permit: Mat.3:15; with accusative, Mat.3:15, 19:14, al.; with accusative of thing(s) and dative of person(s), Mat.5:40; with inf. pres., Mat.23:14, al.; aor., Mrk.5:37, al.; in late Gk. (M, Pr., 175f.), before ἵνα, Mrk.11:16, Jhn.12:7; with subjunct. (M, Pr., l.with; Bl., §64, 2), Mat.7:4 27:49, Mrk.15:36, Luk.6:42 (see further MM, see word). (AS)
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G863 — ἀφίημι
aphiēmi · to release: leave · Greek
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Matthew 3:15 · ἄφες · ἀφίησινBut Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.Matthew 4:11 · ἀφίησινThen the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him.Matthew 4:20 · ἀφέντεςThey immediately left their nets and followed him.Matthew 4:22 · ἀφέντεςThey immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.Matthew 5:24 · ἄφεςleave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.Matthew 5:40 · ἄφεςIf anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.Matthew 6:12 · ἄφες · ἀφήκαμενForgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.Matthew 6:14 · ἀφῆτε · ἀφήσει“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.Matthew 6:15 · ἀφῆτε · ἀφήσειBut if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.Matthew 7:4 · ἄφεςOr how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye;’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye?Matthew 8:15 · ἀφῆκενHe touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him.Matthew 8:22 · ἄφεςBut Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”Matthew 9:2 · ἀφίενταίBehold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”Matthew 9:5 · ἀφίενταίFor which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk?’Matthew 9:6 · ἀφιέναιBut that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...” (then he said to the paralytic), “Get up, and take up your mat, and go up to your house.”Matthew 12:31 · ἀφεθήσεται · ἀφεθήσεταιTherefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.Matthew 12:32 · ἀφεθήσεται · ἀφεθήσεταιWhoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.Matthew 13:30 · ἄφετεLet both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”Matthew 13:36 · ἀφεὶςThen Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”Matthew 15:14 · ἄφετεLeave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”Matthew 18:12 · ἀφήσει“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?Matthew 18:21 · ἀφήσωThen Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”Matthew 18:27 · ἀφῆκενThe lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.Matthew 18:32 · ἀφῆκάThen his lord called him in, and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.Matthew 18:35 · ἀφῆτεSo my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”Matthew 19:14 · ἄφετεBut Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”Matthew 19:27 · ἀφήκαμενThen Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?”Matthew 19:29 · ἀφῆκενEveryone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.Matthew 22:22 · ἀφέντεςWhen they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.Matthew 22:25 · ἀφῆκενNow there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.Matthew 23:13 · ἀφίετε“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.Matthew 23:23 · ἀφήκατε · ἀφιέναι.“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.Matthew 23:38 · ἀφίεταιBehold, your house is left to you desolate.Matthew 24:2 · ἀφεθῇBut he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”Matthew 24:40 · ἀφίεται.Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left;Matthew 24:41 · ἀφίεται.two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left.Matthew 26:44 · ἀφεὶςHe left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.Matthew 26:56 · ἀφέντεςBut all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him, and fled.Matthew 27:49 · ἄφες,The rest said, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to save him.”Matthew 27:50 · ἀφῆκενJesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.Mark 1:18 · ἀφέντεςImmediately they left their nets, and followed him.Mark 1:20 · ἀφέντεςImmediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.Mark 1:31 · ἀφῆκενHe came and took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever left her, and she served them.Mark 1:34 · ἤφιενHe healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. He didn’t allow the demons to speak, because they knew him.Mark 2:5 · ἀφίενταίJesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”Mark 2:7 · ἀφιέναι“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”Mark 2:9 · ἀφίενταίWhich is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?’Mark 3:28 · ἀφεθήσεταιMost certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme;Mark 4:12 · ἀφεθῇthat ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’”Mark 4:36 · ἀφέντεςLeaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.Mark 5:19 · ἀφῆκενHe didn’t allow him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.”Mark 5:37 · ἀφῆκενHe allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.Mark 7:8 · Ἀφέντες“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”Mark 7:12 · ἀφίετεthen you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,Mark 7:27 · ἄφεςBut Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”Mark 8:13 · ἀφεὶςHe left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side.Mark 10:14 · ἄφετεBut when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.Mark 10:28 · ἀφήκαμενPeter began to tell him, “Behold, we have left all, and have followed you.”Mark 10:29 · ἀφῆκενJesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,Mark 11:6 · ἀφῆκανThey said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go.Mark 11:16 · ἤφιενHe would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.Mark 11:25 · ἀφίετε · ἀφῇWhenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.Mark 12:12 · ἀφέντεςThey tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.Mark 12:19 · ἀφῇ“Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’Mark 12:20 · ἀφῆκενThere were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.Mark 12:22 · ἀφῆκανand the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.Mark 13:2 · ἀφεθῇJesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down.”Mark 13:34 · ἀφεὶς“It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.Mark 14:6 · ἄφετεBut Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.Mark 14:50 · ἀφέντεςThey all left him, and fled.Mark 15:36 · ἄφετε,One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to take him down.”Mark 15:37 · ἀφεὶςJesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.Luke 4:39 · ἀφῆκενHe stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.Luke 5:11 · ἀφέντεςWhen they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.Luke 5:20 · ἀφέωνταίSeeing their faith, he said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”Luke 5:21 · ἀφεῖναιThe scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”Luke 5:23 · ἀφέωνταίWhich is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you;’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk?’Luke 5:24 · ἀφιέναιBut that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” (he said to the paralyzed man), “I tell you, arise, and take up your cot, and go to your house.”Luke 6:42 · ἄφεςOr how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye.Luke 7:47 · ἀφέωνται · ἀφίεται,Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”Luke 7:48 · ἀφέωνταίHe said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”Luke 7:49 · ἀφίησιν;Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”Luke 8:51 · ἀφῆκενWhen he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.Luke 9:60 · ἄφεςBut Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God.”Luke 10:30 · ἀφέντεςJesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.Luke 11:4 · ἄφες · ἀφίομενForgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”Luke 12:10 · ἀφεθήσεται · ἀφεθήσεται.¶Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.Luke 12:39 · ἀφῆκενBut know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.Luke 13:8 · ἄφεςHe answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it, and fertilize it.Luke 13:35 · ἀφίεταιBehold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”Luke 17:3 · ἄφεςBe careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.Luke 17:4 · ἀφήσειςIf he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”Luke 17:34 · ἀφεθήσεται.I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The one will be taken, and the other will be left.Luke 17:35 · ἀφεθήσεται.¶There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left.”Luke 18:16 · ἄφετεJesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.Luke 18:28 · ἀφέντεςPeter said, “Look, we have left everything, and followed you.”Luke 18:29 · ἀφῆκενHe said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God’s sake,Luke 19:44 · ἀφήσουσινand will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”Luke 21:6 · ἀφεθήσεται“As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down.”Luke 23:34 · ἄφεςJesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.John 4:3 · ἀφῆκενhe left Judea, and departed into Galilee.John 4:28 · ἈφῆκενSo the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,John 4:52 · ἀφῆκενSo he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.”John 8:29 · ἀφῆκένHe who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”John 10:12 · ἀφίησινHe who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.John 11:44 · ἄφετεHe who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”John 11:48 · ἀφῶμενIf we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”John 12:7 · ἄφεςBut Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.John 14:18 · ἀφήσωI will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.John 14:27 · ἀφίημιPeace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.John 16:28 · ἀφίημιI came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”John 16:32 · ἀφῆτε·Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.John 18:8 · ἄφετεJesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,”John 20:23 · ἀφῆτε · ἀφέωνταιIf you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”Acts 5:38 · ἄφετεNow I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.Acts 8:22 · ἀφεθήσεταίRepent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.Acts 14:17 · ἀφῆκενYet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”Romans 1:27 · ἀφέντεςLikewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.Romans 4:7 · ἀφέθησαν“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.1 Corinthians 7:11 · ἀφιέναι.¶(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.1 Corinthians 7:12 · ἀφιέτωBut to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.1 Corinthians 7:13 · ἀφιέτωThe woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.Hebrews 2:8 · ἀφῆκενYou have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet.Hebrews 6:1 · ἀφέντεςTherefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,James 5:15 · ἀφεθήσεταιand the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.1 John 1:9 · ἀφῇIf we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.1 John 2:12 · ἀφέωνταιI write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.Revelation 2:4 · ἀφῆκες.But I have this against you, that you left your first love.Revelation 2:20 · ἀφεῖςBut I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.Revelation 11:9 · ἀφίουσινFrom among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.