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Strong's G683 ἀπωθέομαι (apotheomai)

Apotheomai means “cast away” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H683 — atsalyahu (“Azaliah”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G683
Language Greek
Linked Usages 71
Books 20

Strong's G683 Quick Answer

Strong's G683 ἀπωθέομαι (apotheomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. apotheomai (ap-o-theh'-om-ai) (or apothomai ap-o'-thom-ai) v. 1. to push off 2. (figuratively) to reject It has 71 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include lord, rejected, cast, god, and hast. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
apotheomai (ap-o-theh'-om-ai) (or apothomai ap-o'-thom-ai) v. 1. to push off 2. (figuratively) to reject
Usage
71 linked usages
Books
20 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
lord, rejected, cast, god, and hast

Meaning and Definition

apotheomai (ap-o-theh'-om-ai) (or apothomai ap-o'-thom-ai) v. 1. to push off 2. (figuratively) to reject [from G575 and the middle voice of otheo or otho "to shove"] KJV: cast away, put away (from), thrust away (from) Root(s): G575

Original Word
ἀπωθέομαι
Transliteration
apotheomai
Derivation
R1: 575
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G683. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to reject

Usage: ἀπ-ωθέω, -ῶ [in LXX for זָנַח, מָאַס, etc. ;] to thrust away. Mid., to thrust away from oneself, refuse, reject: with accusative of person(s) (MM, see word), Act.7:27, 39 13:46, Rom.11:1-2, 1Ti.1:19.† (AS)

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English Usage Signals

Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.

lord rejected cast god hast off away reject thee said people also

How Strong's G683 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 61 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G683 (ἀπωθέομαι) appears 68 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G683 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G683 in the New Testament

6 indexed usages in New Testament.

Acts 7:27 KJV

But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

Acts 7:39 KJV

To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

Acts 13:46 KJV

Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

Strong's G683 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

61 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

1 Kingdoms 12:22 Septuagint / Brenton

For the Lord will not cast off his people for his great name’s sake, because the Lord graciously took you to himself for a people.

4 Kingdoms 4:27 Septuagint / Brenton

And she came to Elisha to the mountain, and laid hold of his feet; and Gehazi drew near to thrust her away. And Elisha said, Let her alone, for her soul is much grieved in her, and the Lord has hidden it from me, and has not told it me.

4 Kingdoms 17:20 Septuagint / Brenton

And the Lord was angry with the whole seed of Israel, and troubled them, and gave them into the hand of them that spoiled them, until he cast them out of his presence.

Strong's G683 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

3 Maccabees 3:22 Septuagint / Brenton

All this, however, they have taken in a very different spirit. With their innate malignity, they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly inclining to evil,

3 Maccabees 6:32 Septuagint / Brenton

Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Savior. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy.

4 Maccabees 2:16 Septuagint / Brenton

For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant passions, as it does wrath: for it masters even this.

Usage Excerpts

First 71 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G683.

1 Kingdoms 12:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the Lord will not cast off his people for his great name’s sake, because the Lord graciously took you to himself for a people.
4 Kingdoms 4:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she came to Elisha to the mountain, and laid hold of his feet; and Gehazi drew near to thrust her away. And Elisha said, Let her alone, for her soul is much grieved in her, and the Lord has hidden it from me, and has not told it me.
4 Kingdoms 17:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord was angry with the whole seed of Israel, and troubled them, and gave them into the hand of them that spoiled them, until he cast them out of his presence.
4 Kingdoms 21:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will reject the remnant of my inheritance, and will deliver them into the hands of their enemies; and they shall be for a plunder and for a spoil to all their enemies:
4 Kingdoms 23:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said, I will also remove Judah from my presence, as I removed Israel, and will reject this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
2 Chronicles 35:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept, after all these things that Josiah did in the house. king like him before him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, and all his soul, and all his strength, according to all the law of Moses, and after him there rose up none like him. even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
Job 18:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let one drive him from light into darkness.
Job 34:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Will he take vengeance for it on thee, Whereas thou wilt put it far from thee? For thou shalt choose, and not I; And what thou knowest, speak thou.
Psalms 42:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou, O God, art my strength: wherefore hast thou cast me off? And why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me?
Psalms 43:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But now thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; And thou wilt not go forth with our hosts.
Psalms 43:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Awake, wherefore sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, and do not cast us off forever.
Psalms 59:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O God, thou hast rejected and destroyed us; Thou hast been angry, yet hast pitied us.
Psalms 59:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? And wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our forces?
Psalms 61:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They only took counsel to set at nought mine honor: I ran in thirst: With their mouth they blessed, but with their heart they cursed. Pause.
Psalms 73:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Psalm of instruction for Asaph. Wherefore hast thou rejected us, O God, forever? Wherefore is thy wrath kindled against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psalms 76:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Will the Lord cast off forever? And will he be well pleased no more?
Psalms 77:60 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he rejected the tabernacle of Shiloh, His tent where he dwelt among men.
Psalms 77:67 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim;
Psalms 87:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
free among the dead, As the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; Whom thou rememberest no more; And they are rejected from thy hand.
Psalms 87:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore, O Lord, dost thou reject my prayer, And turn thy face away from me?
Psalms 88:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But thou hast cast off and set at nought, Thou hast rejected thine anointed.
Psalms 93:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the Lord will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance;
Psalms 107:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wilt not thou, O God, who hast rejected us? And wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
Psalms 118:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
With my whole heart have I diligently sought thee: Cast me not away from thy commandments.
Proverbs 1:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And reject not the rules of thy mother.
Proverbs 4:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Remove from thee a froward mouth, And put far away from thee unjust lips.
Proverbs 6:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My son, keep the laws of thy father, And reject not the ordinances of thy mother:
Proverbs 14:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness: But he who is secure in his own holiness is just.
Proverbs 15:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But he that minds reproofs loves his soul.
Proverbs 19:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He that dishonors his father, and drives away his mother, Shall be disgraced and shall be exposed to reproach.
Jeremiah 2:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou shalt go forth thence also with thy hands upon thy head; for the Lord has rejected thy hope, and thou shalt not prosper in it.
Jeremiah 4:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe thyself with scarlet, and adorn thyself with golden ornaments; though thou adorn thine eyes with stibium, thy beauty will be in vain: thy lovers have rejected thee, they seek thy life.
Jeremiah 6:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evils upon this people, even the fruit of their rebellions; for they have not heeded my words, and they have rejected my law.
Jeremiah 7:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cut off thy hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on thy lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected the generation that does these things.
Jeremiah 23:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They say to them that reject the word of the Lord, There shall be peace to you; and to all that walk after their own lusts, and to every one that walks in the error of his heart, they have said, No evil shall come upon thee.
Lamentations 2:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord has rejected his altar, He has cast off his sanctuary, He has broken by the hand of the enemy The wall of her palaces; They have uttered their voice in the house of the Lord As on a feast day.
Lamentations 3:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He has also removed my soul from peace: I forgot prosperity.
Lamentations 3:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the Lord will not reject forever.
Lamentations 3:45 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And be cast off. Thou hast set us alone In the midst of the nations.
Lamentations 3:54 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off.
Lamentations 5:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou hast indeed rejected us; Thou hast been very wroth against us.
Ezekiel 5:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt declare mine ordinances to the lawless one from out of the nations; and my statutes to the sinful one of the countries round about her: because they have rejected mine ordinances, and have not walked in my statutes.
Ezekiel 5:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord; surely, because thou hast defiled my holy things with all thine abominations, I also will reject thee; mine eye shall not spare, and I will have no mercy.
Ezekiel 11:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore say thou, Thus saith the Lord; I will cast them off among the nations, and will disperse them into every land, yet will I be to them for a little sanctuary in the countries which they shall enter.
Ezekiel 16:45 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As is the mother, so is thy mother’s daughter: thou art she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of thy sisters have rejected their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 19:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she saw that he was driven away from her, and her hope of him perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion.
Ezekiel 20:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk ye in my commandments: but they walked not in them, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned my Sabbaths: and I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel 20:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my commandments, but profaned my Sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts.
Ezekiel 20:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
because they kept not mine ordinances, and rejected my commandments, and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers.
Ezekiel 21:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that thou mayest slay victims; be sharpened that thou mayest be bright, ready for slaughter, slay, set at nought, despise every tree.
Ezekiel 21:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and what if even the tribe be rejected? it shall not be, saith the Lord God.
Ezekiel 43:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now let them put away from me their fornication, and the murders of their princes, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.
Hosea 4:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt not minister as priest to me: and as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
Hosea 9:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
God shall reject them, because they have not hearkened to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Amos 2:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his ordinances, and their vain idols which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.
Amos 5:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell your meat offerings in your general assemblies.
Jonah 2:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I said, I am cast out of thy presence: Shall I indeed look again toward thy holy temple?
Micah 2:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Weep not with tears in the assembly of the Lord, neither let any weep for these things; for he shall not remove the reproaches,
Micah 4:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In that day, saith the Lord, I will gather her that is bruised, and will receive her that is cast out, and those whom I rejected.
Micah 4:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will make her that was bruised a remnant, and her that was rejected a mighty nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in Mount Zion from henceforth, even forever.
Zephaniah 3:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I will work in thee for thy sake at that time, saith the Lord: and I will save her that was oppressed, and receive her that was rejected; and I will make them a praise, and honored in all the earth.
Acts 7:27 New Testament, KJV
But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
Acts 7:39 New Testament, KJV
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Acts 13:46 New Testament, KJV
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Romans 11:1 New Testament, KJV
I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:2 New Testament, KJV
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying,
1 Timothy 1:19 New Testament, KJV
Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
3 Maccabees 3:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
All this, however, they have taken in a very different spirit. With their innate malignity, they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly inclining to evil,
3 Maccabees 6:32 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Savior. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy.
4 Maccabees 2:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant passions, as it does wrath: for it masters even this.
Wisdom of Sirach 13:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Press thou not upon him, lest thou be put back; Stand not far off, lest thou be forgotten.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G683, grouped by book.

1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 16 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Acts 3 usages, New Testament
Romans 2 usages, New Testament
1 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
3 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G683 FAQ

What does apotheomai (ἀπωθέομαι) mean?

Apotheomai (Strong's G683) is a Greek word most simply glossed "cast away". apotheomai (ap-o-theh'-om-ai) (or apothomai ap-o'-thom-ai) v. 1. to push off 2. (figuratively) to reject

How many times is apotheomai (ἀπωθέομαι) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 71 linked usages for Strong's G683 across 20 books.

Where can I study apotheomai (ἀπωθέομαι) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G683 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate apotheomai (ἀπωθέομαι)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lord, rejected, cast, god, hast, and off. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G683 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 61 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G683, with linked reader references where each row is available.