Apotassomai means “bid farewell” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H657 — ephec (“ankle”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G657 ἀποτάσσομαι (apotassomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. apotassomai (ap-ot-as'-som-ai) v. 1. (literally) to bid farewell (by departing or dismissing) 2. (figuratively) to renounce It has 13 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include leave, departed, bid, and farewell. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
apotassomai (ap-ot-as'-som-ai) v. 1. (literally) to bid farewell (by departing or dismissing) 2. (figuratively) to renounce [middle voice from G575 and G5021] KJV: bid farewell, forsake, take leave, send away Root(s): G575, G5021
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G657. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to leave
Usage: ἀπο-τάσσω [in LXX: Ecc.2:20 (יָאַשׁ pi.), I Est.6:27, Jer.20:2, 1-18; 1Ma.4:1-61 * ;] to set apart. Mid., in late Gk. (El., § 37, 1; Swete, Mk., 136 f.; MM, e. dative, __(a) to take leave of: Mrk.6:46, Luk.9:61, Act.18:18, 21, 2Co.2:13; __(b) to forsake: Luk.14:33.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render apotassomai, 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.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G657 (ἀποτάσσομαι) appears 7 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
6 indexed usages in New Testament.
And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.
And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
So I went about to dismiss from my heart All my labor wherein I had labored under the sun.
And he smote him, and cast him into the dungeon which was by the gate of the upper house that was set apart, which was by the house of the Lord.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
and that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both of gold and silver, that Nebuchadnezzar took out of the house at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, should be restored to the house at Jerusalem, and be set in the place where they were before.
And they set there a garrison to keep it, and fortified Beth-zur to preserve it; that the people might have a defense against Idumea.
So the king took Beth-zur, and set a garrison there to keep it.
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G657.
So I went about to dismiss from my heart All my labor wherein I had labored under the sun.
And he smote him, and cast him into the dungeon which was by the gate of the upper house that was set apart, which was by the house of the Lord.
And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.
And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
and that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both of gold and silver, that Nebuchadnezzar took out of the house at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, should be restored to the house at Jerusalem, and be set in the place where they were before.
And they set there a garrison to keep it, and fortified Beth-zur to preserve it; that the people might have a defense against Idumea.
So the king took Beth-zur, and set a garrison there to keep it.
Now as Ptolemy entered into the cities, he set in every one of them a garrison of soldiers to keep it.
And when he had built up Kedron, he set horsemen there, and a host of footmen, to the end that issuing out they might make outroads upon the ways of Judea, as the king had commanded him.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G657, grouped by book.
Apotassomai (Strong's G657) is a Greek word most simply glossed "bid farewell". apotassomai (ap-ot-as'-som-ai) v. 1. (literally) to bid farewell (by departing or dismissing) 2. (figuratively) to renounce
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's G657 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G657 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as leave, departed, bid, and farewell. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G657, with linked reader references where each row is available.