Strong's #657: apotassomai (pronounced ap-ot-as'-som-ahee)

middle voice from 575 and 5021; literally, to say adieu (by departing or dismissing); figuratively, to renounce:--bid farewell, forsake, take leave, send away.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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apotassomai

1) to set apart, separate

1a) to separate one' s self, withdraw one' s self from anyone

1a1) to take leave of, bid farewell to

1b) to renounce, forsake

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: middle voice from G575 and G5021

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Mark 6:46: "And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray."
Luke 9:61: "let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house."
Luke 14:33: "he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath,"
Acts 18:18: "after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence"
Acts 18:21: "But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep"
2 Corinthians 2:13: "my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia."