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ἀποδιορίξζω
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ἀποθνήσκω

abgeben, (cf. Win. De verb. comp. etc. Pt. iv. p. 12 sq. who regards ἀπό as denoting to give from some reserved store, or to give over something which might have been retained, or to lay off some burden of debt or duty; cf. Cope on Aristot. rhet. 1, 1, 7]);   1. to deliver, relinquish what is one’s own: τὸ σῶμα τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, Mt. xxvii. 58; hence: in mid. to give away for one’s own profit what is one’s own, i. e. to sell [W. 253 (238)]: τί, Acts v. 8; Heb. xii. 16; τινά, Acts vii. 9, (often in this sense in Grk. writ., esp. the Attic, fr. Hdt. 1, 70 down; in Sept. for מָכַר, Gen. xxv. 33 etc.; Bar. vi. [i. e. Ep. Jer.] 27 (28)).   2. to pay off, discharge, what is due, (because a debt, like a burden, is thrown off; ἀπό, by being paid): a debt (Germ. abtragen), Mt. v. 26; xviii. 25-30, 34; Lk. vii. 42; x. 35; xii. 59; wages, Mt. xx. 8; tribute and other dues to the government, Mt. xxii. 21; Mk. xii. 17; Lk. xx. 25; Ro. xiii. 7; produce due, Mt. xxi. 41; Heb. xii. 11; Rev. xxii. 2; ὅρκους things promised under oath, Mt. v. 33, cf. Num. xxx. 3, (εὐχήν a vow, Deut. xxiii. 21, etc.); conjugal duty, 1 Co. vii. 3; ἀμοιβάς grateful requitals, 1 Tim. v. 4; λόγον to render account: Mt. xii. 36; Lk. xvi. 2; Acts xix. 40; Ro. xiv. 12 L txt. Tr txt.; Heb. xiii. 17; 1 Pet. iv. 5; μαρτύριον to give testimony (as something officially due), Acts iv. 33. Hence   3. to give back, restore: Lk. iv. 20; [vii. 15 Lchm. mrg.]; ix. 42; xix. 8.   4. to requite, recompense, in a good or a bad sense: Mt. vi. 4, 6, 18; xvi. 27; Ro. ii. 6; 2 Tim. iv. [8], 14; Rev. xviii. 6; xxii. 12; κακὸν ἀντὶ κακοῦ, Ro. xii. 17; 1 Th. v. 15; 1 Pet. iii. 9. [Comp.: ἀντ-αποδίδωμι.]*


ἀπο-δι-ορίζω; (διορίζω, and this fr. ὅρος a limit); by drawing boundaries to disjoin, part, separate from another: Jude 19 (οἱ ἀποδιορίζοντες ἑαυτούς those who by their wickedness separate themselves from the living fellowship of Christians; if ἕαυτ. be dropped, with Recst. G L T Tr WH, the rendering is making divisions or separations). Aristot. pol. 4, 4, 13 [p. 1290b, 25].)*


ἀπο-δοκιμάζω: (see δοκιμάζω); 1 aor. ἀπεδοκίμασα; Pass., 1 aor. ἀπεδοκιμάσθην; pf. ptcp. ἀποδεδοκιμασμένος; to disapprove, reject, repudiate: Mt. xxi. 42; Mk. viii. 31; xii. 10; Lk. ix. 22; xvii. 25; xx. 17; 1 Pet. ii. 4, 7; Heb. xii. 17. (Equiv. to מָאַס in Ps. cxvii. (cxviii.) 22; Jer. viii. 9, etc.; in Grk. writ. fr. Hdt. 6, 130 down.)*


ἀπο-δοχή, -ῆς, ἡ, (ἀποδέχομαι, q. ν.), reception, admission, acceptance, approbation, [A. V. acceptation]: 1 Tim. i. 15; iv. 9. (Polyb. 2, 56, 1; 6, 2, 13, etc.; ὁ λόγος ἀποδοχῆς τυγχάνει id. 1, 5, 5; Diod. 4, 84; Joseph. antt. 6, 14, 4; al. [cf. Field, Otium Norv. pars iii. p. 124].)*


ἀπό-θεσις, -εως, ἡ, [ἀποτίθημι], a putting off or away: 2 Pet. i. 14; 1 Pet. iii. 21. [In various senses fr. Hippoc. and Plato down.]*


ἀπο-θήκη, -ης, ἡ, (ἀποτίθημι), a place in which any thing is laid by or up; a storehouse, granary, [A. V. garner, barn]: Mt. iii. 12; vi. 26; xiii. 30; Lk. iii. 17; xii. 18, 24. (Jer. xxvii. (l.) 26; Thuc. 6, 97.)*


ἀπο-θησαυρίζω; to put away, lay by in store, to treasure away, [seponendo thesaurum colligere, Win. De verb. comp. etc. Pt. iv. p. 10]; to store up abundance for future use: 1 Tim. vi. 19. [Sir. iii. 4; Diod., Joseph., Epict., al.]*


ἀπο-θλίβω; to press on all sides, squeeze, press hard: Lk. viii. 45. (Num. xxii. 25; used also of pressing out grapes and olives, Diod. 3, 62; Joseph. antt. 2, 5, 2; [al.].)*


ἀπο-θνήσκω, impf. ἀπέθνησκον (Lk. viii. 42); 2 aor. ἀπέθανον; fut. ἀποθανοῦμαι, Ro. v. 7; Jn. viii. 21, 24, (see θνήσκω); found in Grk. writ. fr. Hom. down; to die (ἀπό, so as to be no more; [cf. Lat. emorior; Eng. die off or out, pass away]; Germ. absterben, versterben);   I. used properly   1. of the natural death of men: Mt. ix. 24; xxii. 24; Lk. xvi. 22; Jn. iv. 47; Ro. vii. 2, and very often; ἀποθνήσκοντες ἄνθρωποι subject to death, mortal, Heb. vii. 8 [B. 206 (178)].   2. of the violent death—both of animals, Mt. viii. 32, and of men, Mt. xxvi. 35; Acts xxi. 13 etc.; 1 Pet. iii. 18 L T Tr WH txt; ἐν φόνῳ μαχαίρας, Heb. xi. 37; of the punishment of death, Heb. x. 28; often of the violent death which Christ suffered, as Jn. xii. 33; Ro. v. 6, etc.   3. Phrases: ἀποθνήσκ. ἔκ τινος to perish by means of something, [cf. Eng. to die of], Rev. viii. 11; ἐν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, ἐν ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις, fixed in sin, hence to die unreformed, Jn. viii. 21, 24; ἐν τῷ Ἀδάμ by connection with Adam, 1 Co. xv. 22; ἐν κυρίῳ in fellowship with, and trusting in, the Lord, Rev. xiv. 13; ἀποθνήσκ. τι to die a certain death, Ro. vi. 10, (θάνατον μακρόν, Charit. p. 12 ed. D’Orville [l. i. c. 8 p. 17, 6 ed. Beck; cf. W. 227 (213); B. 149 (130)]); τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, used of Christ, ‘that he might not have to busy himself more with the sin of men,’ Ro. vi. 10; ἑαυτῷ to become one’s own master, independent, by dying, Ro. xiv. 7 [cf. Meyer]; τῷ κυρίῳ to become subject to the Lord’s will by dying, Ro. xiv. 8 [cf. Mey.]; {grc|διά τινα}} i. e. to save one, 1 Co. viii. 11; on the phrases ἀποθνήσκ. περί and ὑπέρ τινος, see περί I. c. δ. and ὑπέρ I. 2 and 3. Oratorically, although the proper signification of the verb is retained, καθ’ ἡμέραν ἀποθνήσκω I meet death daily, live daily in danger of death, 1 Co. xv. 31, cf. 2 Co. vi. 9.   4. of trees which dry up, Jude 12; of seeds, which while being resolved into their elements in the ground seem to perish by rotting, Jn. xii. 24; 1 Co. xv. 36.   II. tropically, in various senses;   1. of eternal death, as it is called, i. e. to be subject to eternal misery, and that, too, already beginning on earth: Ro. viii. 13; Jn. vi. 50; xi. 26.   2. of moral death, in various senses;   a. to be deprived of real life, i. e. esp. of the power of doing right, of confidence in God and the hope of future blessedness, Ro. vii. 10; of the spiritual torpor of those who have fallen from the fellowship of Christ, the fountain of true life, Rev. iii. 2.   b. with dat. of the thing [cf. W. 210 (197); 428 (398); B. 178 (155)], to become wholly alienated from a thing, and freed from all connection with it: τῷ νόμῳ, Gal. ii. 19, which must also be supplied with ἀποθανόντες (for so we must read for Recelz. ἀποθανόντος) in Ro. vii. 6 [cf. W. 159 (150)]; τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, Ro. vi. 2 (in another sense in vs. 10; see I. above); ἀπό τῶν στοιχείων τοῦ κόσμου so that your relation to etc. has passed away, Col. ii. 20, (ἀπὸ τῶν παθῶν, Porphyr. de abst. animal. 1, 41 [cf. B. 322 (277); W. 370 (347)]); true Christians are said simply ἀποθανεῖν, as having put off all sensibility to worldly things that draw them