Strong's Number G630

ἀπολύω

apoluo · ap-ol-oo'-o

Transliteration:

apoluo{ap-ol-oo'-o}

Word Origin:

from 575 and 3089

Part of Speech:

verb

Strong's Definition:

to free fully, i.e. (literally) relieve, release, dismiss (reflexively, depart), or (figuratively) let die, pardon or (specially) divorce

Usage in the KJV:

release 17, put away 11, send away 13, let go 4, set at liberty 2, let depart 2, dismiss 2, misc 6

Total: 69
Occurs 66 times in the Greek text.

Definition:

to set free
to let go, dismiss, (to detain no longer)
1. a petitioner to whom liberty to depart is given by a decisive answer
2. to bid depart, send away
to let go free, release
1. a captive i.e. to loose his bonds and bid him depart, to give him liberty to depart
2. to acquit one accused of a crime and set him at liberty
3. indulgently to grant a prisoner leave to depart
4. to release a debtor, i.e. not to press one's claim against him, to remit his debt
used of divorce, to dismiss from the house, to repudiate. The wife of a Greek or Roman may divorce her husband.
to send one's self away, to depart