Strong's Number 630
Transliteration:
apoluo
{ap-ol-oo'-o}
Word Origin:
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage in the KJV:
release 17, put away 14, send away 13, let go 13, set at liberty 2, let depart 2, dismiss 2, misc 6
Total: 69
Definition:
- to set free
- to let go, dismiss, (to detain no longer)
- a petitioner to whom liberty to depart is given by a decisive answer
- to bid depart, send away
- to let go free, release
- a captive i.e. to loose his bonds and bid him depart, to give him liberty to depart
- to acquit one accused of a crime and set him at liberty
- indulgently to grant a prisoner leave to depart
- 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