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Strong's G851 ἀφαιρέω (aphaireo)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's H851 — eshtemoa in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G851
Language Greek
Linked Usages 158
Books 38

Strong's G851 Quick Answer

Strong's G851 ἀφαιρέω (aphaireo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. aphaireo (af-ai-reh'-o) v. 1. to remove {literally or figuratively} It has 158 linked Bible usages across 38 books. Visible English usage signals include away, lord, take, thee, and taken. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
aphaireo (af-ai-reh'-o) v. 1. to remove {literally or figuratively}
Usage
158 linked usages
Books
38 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
away, lord, take, thee, and taken

Meaning and Definition

aphaireo (af-ai-reh'-o) v. 1. to remove {literally or figuratively} [from G575 and G138] KJV: cut (smite) off, take away Root(s): G575, G138

Original Word
ἀφαιρέω
Transliteration
aphaireo
Derivation
Root: αἱρέομαι R1: 575 R2: 138
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G851. 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 remove

Usage: ἀφ-αιρέω, -ῶ [in LXX (Cremer, 615 f.) for סוּר, עָבַר, H7311 כָּרַת, etc. (35 words in all) ;] to take from, take away, take off: with accusative, τὸ ὠτίον, Mat.26:51, Mrk.14:47 (ὠτάριον, WH), Luk.22:50 (οὖς); ὄνειδος, Luk.1:25; before ἀπό, Rev.22:19, Luk.16:3 (mid.); pass., C. genitive, Luk.10:42; ἀ. ἁμαρτίος, Heb.10:4, Rom.11:27 (mid.) (MM, see word).† (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.

away lord take thee taken off shalt israel upon offering took said

How Strong's G851 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. 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 129 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.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G851 (ἀφαιρέω) appears 157 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G851 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 G851 in the New Testament

9 indexed usages in New Testament.

Strong's G851 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

129 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 21:25 Septuagint / Brenton

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the wells of water, which the servants of Abimelech took away.

Genesis 30:23 Septuagint / Brenton

And she conceived, and bore Jacob a son; and Rachel said, God has taken away my reproach.

Genesis 31:9 Septuagint / Brenton

So God has taken away all the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

Strong's G851 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

19 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Strong's G851 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G851.

Genesis 21:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the wells of water, which the servants of Abimelech took away.
Genesis 30:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she conceived, and bore Jacob a son; and Rachel said, God has taken away my reproach.
Genesis 31:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So God has taken away all the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Genesis 31:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All the wealth and the glory which God has taken from our father, it shall be ours and our children’s; now then do whatsoever God has said to thee.
Genesis 31:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid; for I said, Lest at any time thou shouldest take away thy daughters from me, and all my possessions.
Genesis 40:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Yet three days, and Pharaoh shall take away thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree, and the birds of the sky shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
Genesis 48:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joseph having seen that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim—it seemed grievous to him; and Joseph took hold of the hand of his father, to remove it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh.
Exodus 5:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt impose on them daily the rate of brickmaking which they perform: thou shalt not abate anything, for they are idle; therefore have they cried, saying, Let us arise and do sacrifice to our God.
Exodus 5:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Go ye, yourselves, get for yourselves straw whencesoever ye can find it, for nothing is diminished from your rate.
Exodus 13:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that thou shalt set apart every offspring opening the womb, the males to the Lord, every one that opens the womb out of the herds or among thy cattle, as many as thou shalt have: thou shalt sanctify the males to the Lord.
Exodus 29:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt sanctify the separated breast and the shoulder of removal which has been separated, and which has been removed from the ram of consecration, of the portion of Aaron and of that of his sons.
Exodus 33:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the Lord said to the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people; take heed lest I bring on you another plague, and destroy you: now then put off your glorious apparel, and your ornaments, and I will show thee what I will do to thee.
Exodus 33:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will remove my hand, and then shalt thou see my back parts; but my face shall not appear to thee.
Exodus 34:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and keeping justice and mercy for thousands, taking away iniquity, and unrighteousness, and sins; and he will not clear the guilty; bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and to the children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.
Exodus 34:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and said, If I have found grace before thee, let my Lord go with us; for the people is stiff-necked: and thou shalt take away our sins and our iniquities, and we will be thine.
Exodus 35:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
they with whom was found incorruptible wood; and they brought offerings for all the works of the preparation.
Leviticus 1:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall take away the crop with the feathers, and shall cast it forth by the altar toward the east to the place of the ashes.
Leviticus 2:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall approach the altar, and shall take away from the sacrifice a memorial of it, and the priest shall place it on the altar: a burnt offering, a smell of sweet savor to the Lord.
Leviticus 4:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
as he takes it away from the calf of the sacrifice of peace offering, so shall the priest offer it on the altar of burnt offering.
Leviticus 6:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall put on the linen tunic, and he shall put the linen drawers on his body; and shall take away that which has been thoroughly burned, which the fire shall have consumed, even the whole burnt offering from the altar, and he shall put it near the altar.
Leviticus 6:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall take from it a handful of the fine flour of the sacrifice with its oil, and with all its frankincense, which are upon the sacrifice; and he shall offer up on the altar a burnt offering as a sweet-smelling savor, a memorial of it to the Lord.
Leviticus 8:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood that was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, and on his garments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.
Leviticus 9:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Aaron separated the breast and the right shoulder as a choice offering before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Leviticus 10:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Why did ye not eat the sin offering in the holy place? for because it is most holy he has given you this to eat, that ye might take away the sin of the congregation, and make atonement for them before the Lord.
Leviticus 22:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord.
Numbers 11:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will go down, and speak there with thee; and I will take of the spirit that is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear together with thee the burden of the people, and thou shalt not bear them alone.
Numbers 14:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord is long-suffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.
Numbers 15:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then it shall come to pass, when ye shall eat of the bread of the land, ye shall separate a wave offering, a special offering to the Lord, the firstfruits of your dough.
Numbers 15:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall offer your bread a heave offering: as a heave offering from the threshing floor, so shall ye separate it,
Numbers 18:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every special offering of the holy things, whatsoever the children of Israel shall specially offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, a perpetual ordinance: it is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord, for thee and thy seed after thee.
Numbers 18:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt also speak to the Levites, and shalt say to them, If ye take the tithe from the children of Israel, which I have given you from them for an inheritance, then shall ye separate from it a heave offering to the Lord, a tenth of the tenth.
Numbers 18:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So shall ye also separate them from all the offerings of the Lord out of all your tithes, whatsoever ye shall receive from the children of Israel; and ye shall give of them an offering to the Lord to Aaron the priest.
Numbers 18:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Of all your gifts ye shall offer an offering to the Lord, and of every firstfruit the consecrated part from it.
Numbers 18:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt say to them, When ye shall offer the firstfruits from it, then shall it be reckoned to the Levites as produce from the threshing floor, and as produce from the winepress.
Numbers 18:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall not bear sin by reason of it, for ye shall have offered an offering of firstfruits from it, and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that ye die not.
Numbers 21:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee: pray therefore to the Lord, and let him take away the serpent from us.
Numbers 31:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall take a tribute for the Lord from the warriors that went out to battle; one soul out of five hundred, from the men, and from the cattle, even from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the asses; and ye shall take from their half.
Numbers 31:52 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the wrought gold, even the offering that they offered to the Lord, was sixteen thousand and seven hundred and fifty shekels from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds.
Numbers 36:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they will become wives in one of the tribes of the children of Israel; so their inheritance shall be taken away from the possession of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which the women shall marry, and shall be taken away from the portion of our inheritance.
Numbers 36:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if there shall be a release of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which the women marry, and their inheritance shall be taken away from the inheritance of our family’s tribe.
Deuteronomy 4:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, and ye shall not take from it: keep the commandments of the Lord our God, all that I command you this day.
Deuteronomy 13:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every word that I command you this day, it shalt thou observe to do: thou shalt not add to it, nor diminish from it.
Joshua 5:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, On this day have I removed the reproach of Egypt from you: and he called the name of that place Gilgal.
1 Kingdoms 5:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when they rose early in the morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off each before the threshold, and both the wrists of his hands had fallen on the floor of the porch; only the stump of Dagon was left.
1 Kingdoms 7:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the cities which the Philistines took from the children of Israel were restored; and they restored them to Israel from Ashkelon to Azob: and they took the coast of Israel out of the hand of the Philistines; and there was peace between Israel and the Amorite.
1 Kingdoms 17:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy servant smote both the lion and the bear, and the uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them: shall I not go and smite him, and remove this day a reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised one, who has defied the army of the living God?
1 Kingdoms 17:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he girded David with his sword over his coat: and he made trial walking with them once and again: and David said to Saul, I shall not be able to go with these, for I have not proved them: so they remove them from him.
1 Kingdoms 17:46 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
this day. And the Lord shall deliver thee this day into my hand; and I will slay thee, and take away thy head from off thee, and will give thy limbs and the limbs of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and all the earth shall know that there is a God in Israel.
1 Kingdoms 17:51 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David ran, and stood upon him, and took his sword, and slew him, and cut off his head: and the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, and they fled.
1 Kingdoms 21:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So Ahimelech the priest gave him the showbread; for there were no loaves there, but only the presence loaves which had been removed from the presence of the Lord, in order that hot bread should be set on, on the day on which he took them.
1 Kingdoms 24:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the men of David said to him, Behold, this is the day of which the Lord spoke to thee, that he would deliver thine enemy into thy hands; and thou shalt do to him as it is good in thy sight. So David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul’s garment secretly.
1 Kingdoms 24:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass after this that David’s heart smote him, because he had cut off the skirt of his garment.
1 Kingdoms 24:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And behold, the skirt of thy mantle is in my hand, I cut off the skirt, and did not slay thee: know then and see today, there is no evil in my hand, nor impiety, nor rebellion; and I have not sinned against thee, yet thou layest snares for my soul to take it.
1 Kingdoms 30:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and he rescued both his wives.
2 Kingdoms 4:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Ish-bosheth was sleeping on his bed in his chamber: and they smite him, and slay him, and take off his head: and they took his head, and went all the night by the western road.
2 Kingdoms 16:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, Why does this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over now and take off his head.
2 Kingdoms 20:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the woman went in to all the people, and she spoke to all the city in her wisdom; and they took off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri; and took it away and threw it to Joab: and he blew the trumpet, and the people separated from the city away from him, every man to his tent: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
3 Kingdoms 15:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he removed the sodomites out of the land, and abolished all the practices which his fathers had kept up.
3 Kingdoms 21:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he hastened, and took away the bandage from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized him, that he was one of the prophets.
4 Kingdoms 6:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and the king sent a man before him: before the messenger came to him, he also said to the elders, Do ye see that this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? See, as soon as the messenger shall have come, shut the door, and forcibly detain him at the door: is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?
1 Chronicles 11:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he smote an Egyptian, a wonderful man five cubits high; and in the hand of the Egyptian there was a spear like a weavers’ beam; and Benaiah went down to him with a staff, and took the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.
1 Chronicles 19:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hanun took the servants of David, and shaved them, and cut off the half of their garments as far as their tunic, and sent them away.
Esther 4:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the queen’s maids and chamberlains went in and told her: and when she had heard what was done, she was disturbed; and she sent to clothe Mordecai, and take away his sackcloth: but he consented not.
Esther 8:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king took the ring which he had taken away from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai: and Esther appointed Mordecai over all that had been Haman’s.
Esther 8:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she spoke yet again to the king, and fell at his feet, and besought him to do away the mischief of Haman, and all that he had done against the Jews.
Job 1:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and said, I myself came forth naked from my mother’s womb, And naked shall I return thither: The Lord gave, the Lord has taken away: As it seemed good to the Lord, so has it come to pass; Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Job 9:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For even if I have sinned, I know it not in my soul: But my life is taken away.
Job 19:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And has taken the crown from my head.
Job 22:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou hast taken security of thy brethren for nothing, And hast taken away the clothing of the naked.
Job 24:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, And they have taken away the covering of their body.
Job 24:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they have wrongfully caused others to sleep without clothing, And taken away the morsel of the hungry.
Job 36:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He will not turn away his eyes from the righteous, But they shall be with kings on the throne: And he will establish them in triumph, and they shall be exalted.
Job 38:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, And crushed the arm of the proud?
Psalms 75:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and that takes away the spirits of princes; To him that is terrible among the kings of the earth.
Proverbs 1:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; For by ungodliness they destroy their own life.
Proverbs 4:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: Their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.
Proverbs 11:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Out of the fruit of righteousness grows a tree of life; But the souls of transgressors are cut off before their time.
Proverbs 13:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But he that attends to reproofs shall be honored.
Proverbs 14:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
An understanding servant is acceptable to a king; And by his good behavior he removes disgrace.
Proverbs 22:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For he has given of his own bread to the poor. But he takes away the life of them that possess them.
Proverbs 30:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Two things I ask of you; take not favor from me before I die.
Proverbs 33:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Proverbs 34:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ecclesiastes 3:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I know that whatsoever things God has done, They shall be forever: It is impossible to add to it, And it is impossible to take away from it: And God has done it, that men may fear before him.
Isaiah 1:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities;
Isaiah 1:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will bring my hand upon thee, and purge thee completely, and I will destroy the rebellious, and will take away from thee all transgressors.
Isaiah 3:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold now, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judea the mighty man and mighty woman, the strength of bread, and the strength of water,
Isaiah 3:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the Lord will take away the glory of their raiment, the curls and the fringes, and the crescents,
Isaiah 4:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own raiment: only let thy name be called upon us, and take away our reproach.
Isaiah 5:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be left to be trodden down.
Isaiah 5:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Woe to them that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbor’s: will ye dwell alone upon the land?
Isaiah 6:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and he touched my mouth, and said, Behold, this has touched thy lips, and will take away thine iniquities, and will purge off thy sins.
Isaiah 7:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But God shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the house of thy father, days which have never come, from the day that Ephraim took away from Judah the king of the Assyrians.
Isaiah 7:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In that day the Lord shall shave with the hired razor of the king of Assyria beyond the river the head, and the hairs of the feet, and will remove the beard.
Isaiah 8:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and he shall take away from Judah every man who shall be able to lift up his head, and every one able to accomplish anything; and his camp shall fill the breadth of thy land, O God with us.
Isaiah 9:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because the yoke that was laid upon them has been taken away, and the rod that was on their neck: for he has broken the rod of the exactors, as in the day of Midian.
Isaiah 9:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So the Lord took away from Israel the head and tail, great and small, in one day:
Isaiah 10:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of my understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength.
Isaiah 10:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his yoke shall be taken away from thy shoulder, and his fear from thee, and the yoke shall be destroyed from off your shoulders.
Isaiah 11:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the enemies of Judah shall perish: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not afflict Ephraim.
Isaiah 14:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
even to destroy the Assyrians upon my land, and upon my mountains: and they shall be for trampling; and their yoke shall be taken away from them, and their glory shall be taken away from their shoulders.
Isaiah 16:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou shalt be as a young bird taken away from a bird that has flown: even thou shalt be so, daughter of Moab: and then do thou, O Arnon,
Isaiah 18:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall he take away the little clusters with pruning hooks, and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off;
Isaiah 20:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then the Lord spoke to Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and take the sackcloth off thy loins, and loose thy sandals from off thy feet, and do thus, going naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 22:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold now, the Lord of hosts casts forth and will utterly destroy such a man, and will take away thy robe and thy glorious crown,
Isaiah 22:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt be removed from thy stewardship, and from thy place.
Isaiah 22:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, The man that is fastened in the sure place shall be removed and be taken away, and shall fall; and the glory that is upon him shall be utterly destroyed: for the Lord has spoken it.
Isaiah 25:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Death has prevailed and swallowed men up; but again the Lord God has taken away every tear from every face. He has taken away the reproach of his people from all the earth: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.
Isaiah 27:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.
Isaiah 28:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
except it also take away your covenant of death, and your trust in Hades shall by no means stand: if the rushing storm should come upon you, ye shall be beaten down by it.
Isaiah 30:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and turn us aside from this way; remove from us this path, and remove from us the oracle of Israel.
Isaiah 38:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and removed the sorrow of my soul.
Isaiah 40:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For say not thou, O Jacob, and why hast thou spoken, Israel, saying, My way is hidden from God, and my God has taken away my judgment, and has departed?
Isaiah 53:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord also is pleased to purge him from his stroke. If ye can give an offering for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed:
Isaiah 58:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then shalt thou cry, and God shall hearken to thee; while thou art yet speaking he will say, Behold, I am here. If thou remove from thee the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuring speech;
Jeremiah 6:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thy pride, O daughter of Zion, shall be taken away.
Jeremiah 11:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Why has my beloved wrought abomination in my house? will prayers and holy offerings take away thy wickedness from thee, or shalt thou escape by these things?
Jeremiah 33:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus said the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and thou shalt declare to all the Jews, and to all that come to worship in the house of the Lord, all the words which I commanded thee to speak to them; abate not one word.
Ezekiel 21:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou hast taken off the miter and put on the crown, it shall not have such another after it: thou hast abased that which was high, and exalted that which was low.
Ezekiel 23:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will bring upon thee my jealousy, and they shall deal with thee in great wrath: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and shall cast down thy remnant with the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy remnant fire shall devour.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G851, grouped by book.

Genesis 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Esther 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 31 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 4 usages, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Letter of Jeremiah 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G851 FAQ

What does aphaireo (ἀφαιρέω) mean?

Aphaireo (Strong's G851) is a Greek word most simply glossed "take away". aphaireo (af-ai-reh'-o) v. 1. to remove {literally or figuratively}

How many times is aphaireo (ἀφαιρέω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 158 linked usages for Strong's G851 across 38 books.

Where can I study aphaireo (ἀφαιρέω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G851 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate aphaireo (ἀφαιρέω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as away, lord, take, thee, taken, and off. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G851 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 129 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 19 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G851, with linked reader references where each row is available.