Strong's #630: apoluo (pronounced ap-ol-oo'-o)
from 575 and 3089; to free fully, i.e. (literally) relieve, release, dismiss (reflexively, depart), or (figuratively) let die, pardon or (specially) divorce:--(let) depart, dismiss, divorce, forgive, let go, loose, put (send) away, release, set at liberty.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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apoluō
1) to set free
2) to let go, dismiss, (to detain no longer)
2a) a petitioner to whom liberty to depart is given by a decisive answer
2b) to bid depart, send away
3) to let go free, release
3a) a captive, i.e. to loose his bonds and bid him depart, to give him liberty to depart
3b) to acquit one accused of a crime and set him at liberty
3c) indulgently to grant a prisoner leave to depart
3d) to release a debtor, i.e. not to press one' s claim against him, to remit his debt
4) used of divorce, to dismiss from the house, to repudiate. The wife of a Greek or Roman may divorce her husband.
5) to send one' s self away, to depart
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: from G575 and G3089
Usage:
This word is used 70 times:
John 19:10: "and have power to release thee?"
John 19:10: "and have power to release thee?"
John 19:12: "thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews"
John 19:12: "cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's"
Acts 3:13: "in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go."
Acts 4:21: "So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how"
Acts 4:23: "And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that"
Acts 5:40: "name of Jesus, and let them go."
Acts 13:3: "laid their hands on them, they sent them away."
Acts 15:30: "So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and"
Acts 15:33: "And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the"
Acts 16:35: "the sergeants, saying, Let those men go."
Acts 16:36: "magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go"
Acts 17:9: "and of the other, they let them go."
Acts 19:41: "And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly."
Acts 23:22: "the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See thou tell"
Acts 26:32: "This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar."
Acts 28:18: "when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death"
Acts 28:25: "when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one"
Hebrews 13:23: "Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come"
