Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to take away
Usage: ἀπ-αίρω [in LXX chiefly for נָסַע ;] to lift off, hence, to take away; pass.: Mat.9:15, Mrk.2:20, Luk.5:35.† (AS)
Apairo means “lift off” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H522 — ammah in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G522 ἀπαίρω (apairo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. apairo (ap-ai'-ro) v. 1. to lift off, i.e. remove [from G575 and G142] It has 120 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include away. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
apairo (ap-ai'-ro) v. 1. to lift off, i.e. remove [from G575 and G142] KJV: take (away) Root(s): G575, G142
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to take away
Usage: ἀπ-αίρω [in LXX chiefly for נָסַע ;] to lift off, hence, to take away; pass.: Mat.9:15, Mrk.2:20, Luk.5:35.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render apairo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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Strong's G522 (ἀπαίρω) appears 118 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
89 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.
And Lot chose for himself all the country round Jordan, and Lot went from the east, and they were separated each from his brother. And Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan.
And having departed thence he dug another well, and they strove also for that; and he named the name of it, Enmity.
28 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
So his servants took him, and brought him out of the camp into the plain, and they went from the midst of the plain into the hill country, and came unto the fountains that were under Bethulia.
So the camp of the children of Ammon departed, and with them five thousand of the Assyrians, and they pitched in the valley, and took the waters, and the fountains of the waters of the children of Israel.
So the king took the half of the forces that remained, and departed from Antioch, his royal city, the hundred forty and seventh year; and he passed the river Euphrates, and went through the high countries.
First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G522.
And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.
And Lot chose for himself all the country round Jordan, and Lot went from the east, and they were separated each from his brother. And Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan.
And having departed thence he dug another well, and they strove also for that; and he named the name of it, Enmity.
And he departed thence and dug another well; and they did not strive about that; and he named the name of it, Room, saying, Because now the Lord has made room for us, and has increased us upon the earth.
And he said, Let us depart, and proceed right onward.
And Jacob departs to his tents; and he made for himself there habitations, and for his cattle he made booths; therefore he called the name of that place, Booths.
And Jacob removed from Bethel, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder, and it came to pass when he drew nigh to Chabratha, to enter into Ephrath, Rachel travailed; and in her travail she was in hard labor.
And the man said to him, They have departed hence, for I heard them saying, Let us go to Dothan; and Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.
And Israel departed, he and all that he had, and came to the well of the oath; and he offered sacrifice to the God of his father Isaac.
And the children of Israel departed from Rameses to Succoth, to the full number of six hundred thousand footmen, even men, besides the baggage.
And they departed from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai; and on the fifteenth day, in the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt,
And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the wilderness of Sin, according to their encampments, by the word of the Lord; and they encamped in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
And when the cloud went up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel departed; and in whatever place the cloud rested, there the children of Israel encamped.
The children of Israel shall encamp by the command of the Lord, and by the command of the Lord they shall remove: all the days in which the cloud overshadows the tabernacle, the children of Israel shall encamp.
And it shall be, whenever the cloud overshadows the tabernacle a number of days, they shall encamp by the word of the Lord, and shall remove by the command of the Lord.
And it shall come to pass, whenever the cloud shall remain from the evening till the morning, and in the morning the cloud shall go up, then shall they remove by day or by night.
When the cloud continues a full month overshadowing the tabernacle, the children of Israel shall encamp, and shall not depart.
For they shall depart by the command of the Lord—they kept the charge of the Lord by the command of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
But Amalek and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
And they departed from Kadesh; and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
And having departed from Mount Hor by the way leading to the Red Sea, they compassed the land of Edom, and the people lost courage by the way.
And the children of Israel departed, and encamped in Oboth.
And thence they departed, and encamped in the Valley of Zered.
And they departed thence and encamped on the other side of Arnon in the wilderness, the country which extends from the coasts of the Amorites; for Arnon is the borders of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
And the children of Israel departed, and encamped on the west of Moab by Jordan toward Jericho.
They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went forth with a high hand before all the Egyptians.
And the children of Israel departed from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth:
and they departed from Succoth and encamped in Etham, which is a part of the wilderness.
And they departed from Etham and encamped at the mouth of Hahiroth, which is opposite Baal-zephon, and encamped opposite Migdol.
And they departed from before Hahiroth, and crossed the middle of the sea into the wilderness; and they went a journey of three days through the wilderness, and encamped in Picriae.
And they departed from Picriae, and came to Elim; and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.
And they departed from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
And they departed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
And they departed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
And they departed from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim; and there was no water there for the people to drink.
And they departed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
And they departed from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped at the Graves of Lust.
And they departed from the Graves of Lust, and encamped in Hazeroth.
And they departed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
And they departed from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon-perez.
And they departed from Rimmon-perez, and encamped in Libnah.
And they departed from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.
And they departed from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.
And they departed from Kehelathah, and encamped in Shepher.
And they departed from Shepher, and encamped in Haradah.
And they departed from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.
And they departed from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath.
And they departed from Tahath, and encamped in Terah.
And they departed from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.
And they departed from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah.
And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth.
And they departed from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene.
And they departed from Bene, and encamped in the mountain Haggidgad.
And they departed from the mountain Haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah.
And they departed from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah.
And they departed from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion-geber.
And they departed from Ezion-geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin; and they departed from the wilderness of Zin, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran; this is Kadesh.
And they departed from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor near the land of Edom.
then they departed from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.
And they departed from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.
And they departed from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.
And they departed from Oboth, and encamped in Iye, on the other side Jordan on the borders of Moab.
And they departed from Iye, and encamped in Dibon-gad.
And they departed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim.
And they departed from Almon-diblathaim, and encamped on the mountains of Abarim, over against Nebo.
And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped on the west of Moab, at Jordan by Jericho.
Turn ye and depart and enter into the mountain of the Amorites, and go to all that dwell near about Arabah, to the mountain and the plain and to the south, and the land of the Canaanites near the sea, and Antilebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
And we departed from Horeb, and went through all that great wilderness and terrible, which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God charged us, and we came as far as Kadesh-barnea.
And we turned and departed into the wilderness, by the way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we compassed Mount Seir many days.
Now then, arise ye, said I, and depart, and cross the Valley of Zered.
Now then arise and depart, and pass over the Valley of Arnon: behold, I have delivered into thy hands Sihon the king of Heshbon the Amorite, and his land: begin to inherit it: engage in war with him this day.
And the children of Israel departed from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan to Moserah: there Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his son was priest in his stead.
Thence they departed to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land wherein are torrents of water.
And the Lord said to me, Go, set out before this people, and let them go in and inherit the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.
And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and departed from Shittim; and they came as far as Jordan, and lodged there before they crossed over.
and they charged the people, saying, When ye shall see the ark of the covenant of the Lord our God, and our priests and the Levites bearing it, ye shall depart from your places, and ye shall go after it.
And the people removed from their tents to cross over Jordan, and the priests bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord before the people.
were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and the cities of Jearim.
O Lord, in thy going forth on Seir, When thou wentest forth out of the land of Edom, The earth quaked and the heaven dropped dews, And the clouds dropped water.
And there departed thence of the families of Dan, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men, girded with weapons of war.
And he said to the messengers of the son of Hadad, Say to your master, All things that thou hast sent to thy servant about at first I will do; but this thing I shall not be able to do. And the men departed, and carried back the answer to him.
And he took his eldest son whom he had designed to reign in his stead, and offered him up for a whole burnt offering on the walls. And there was a great indignation against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their land.
So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.
And Sennacherib king of the Assyrians departed, and went and returned, and dwelt in Nineveh.
He removed the south wind from heaven; And by his might he brought in the southwest wind.
And he removed his people like sheep; He led them as a flock in the wilderness.
Then the glory of the Lord departed from the cherubs to the porch of the house; and the cloud filled the house, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord.
Thy shepherds have slumbered, the Assyrian king has laid low thy mighty men: thy people departed to the mountains, and there was none to receive them.
And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
So his servants took him, and brought him out of the camp into the plain, and they went from the midst of the plain into the hill country, and came unto the fountains that were under Bethulia.
So the camp of the children of Ammon departed, and with them five thousand of the Assyrians, and they pitched in the valley, and took the waters, and the fountains of the waters of the children of Israel.
So the king took the half of the forces that remained, and departed from Antioch, his royal city, the hundred forty and seventh year; and he passed the river Euphrates, and went through the high countries.
So they went forth with all their power, and came and pitched by Emmaus in the plain country.
So the camp removed, and pitched upon the south side of Emmaus.
Then took Gorgias five thousand footmen, and a thousand of the best horsemen, and removed out of the camp by night;
Now when Judas heard thereof, he himself removed, and the valiant men with him, that he might smite the king’s army which was at Emmaus,
Now when Lysias saw his army put to flight, and the manliness of Judas’ soldiers, and how they were ready either to live or die valiantly, he went into Antioch, and gathered together a company of strangers, and having made his army greater than it was, he purposed to come again into Judea.
From whence he removed by night, and went till he came to the fortress.
From thence went he, and took Chaspho, Maked, Bosor, and the other cities of the country of Gilead.
From thence he removed to go into the land of the Philistines, and passed through Samaria.
rose up against him in battle: so he fled, and departed thence with great heaviness, and returned to Babylon.
Upon this Judas removed from the tower, and pitched in Beth-zechariah, over against the king’s camp.
Then the king rising very early marched fiercely with his host toward Beth-zechariah, where his armies made them ready to battle, and sounded the trumpets.
Afterward departed he in all haste, and returned unto Antioch, where he found Philip to be master of the city: so he fought against him, and took the city by force.
So they departed, and came with a great power into the land of Judah, where they sent messengers to Judas and his brethren with peaceable words deceitfully.
After this removed Bacchides from Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Beth-zaith, where he sent and took many of the men that had forsaken him, and certain of the people also, and when he had slain them, he cast them into the great pit.
from whence they removed, and went to Berea, with twenty thousand footmen and two thousand horsemen.
With that the host of Bacchides removed out of their tents, and stood over against them, their horsemen being divided into two troops, and their slingers and archers going before the host, and they that marched in the foreward were all mighty men.
Then removed he, and came with a great host, and sent letters privily to his adherents in Judea, that they should take Jonathan and those that were with him: howbeit they could not, because their counsel was known unto them.
And from thence Jonathan removed his host, and camped against Ascalon, where the men of the city came forth, and met him with great pomp.
he removed from Jerusalem, and met them in the land of Hamath: for he gave them no respite to enter his country.
Howbeit he was afraid that Jonathan would not suffer him, and that he would fight against him; wherefore he sought a way how to take Jonathan, that he might kill him. So he removed, and came to Beth-shan.
So Trypho removed from Ptolemais with a great power to invade the land of Judea, and Jonathan was with him in ward.
Wherefore Trypho made ready all his horsemen to come that night: but there fell a very great snow, by reason whereof he came not. So he departed, and came into the country of Gilead.
And the tyrant Antiochus was both punished upon earth, and is punished now he is dead; for when he was quite unable to compel the Israelites to adopt foreign customs, and to desert the manner of life of their fathers,
In his time Sennacherib came up, And sent Rabshakeh, And lifted up his hand against Zion, And boasted proudly.
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Apairo (Strong's G522) is a Greek word most simply glossed "lift off". apairo (ap-ai'-ro) v. 1. to lift off, i.e. remove [from G575 and G142]
This page currently indexes 120 linked usages for Strong's G522 across 18 books.
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Yes. The current local index includes 89 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 28 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G522, with linked reader references where each row is available.