Lexical Summary apotithēmi: to put off, lay aside Original Word: ἀποτίθημιTransliteration: apotithēmi Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ot-eeth'-ay-mee) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to put off, lay aside Meaning: to put off, lay aside Strong's Concordance cast off, lay aside, put away. From apo and tithemi; to put away (literally or figuratively) -- cast off, lay apart (aside, down), put away (off). see GREEK apo see GREEK tithemi Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 659: ἀποτίθημιἀποτίθημι: 2 aorist middle ἀπεθεμην; (from Homer down); to put off or aside; in the N. T. only middle to put off from oneself: τά ἱμάτια, Acts 7:58; (to lay up or away, ἐν τῇ φυλακή (i. e., put), Matthew 14:3 L T Tr WH (so εἰς φυλακήν, Leviticus 24:12; Numbers 15:34; 2 Chronicles 18:26; Polybius 24, 8, 8; Diodorus 4, 49, ete.)); tropically those things are said to be put off or away which anyone gives up, renounces: as τά ἔργα τοῦ σκότους, Romans 13:12; — Ephesians 4:22 (cf. Winers Grammar, 347 (325); Buttmann, 274 (236)), 25; Colossians 3:8; James 1:21; 1 Peter 2:1; Hebrews 12:1; (τήν ὀργήν, Plutarch, Coriol. 19; τόν πλοῦτον, τήν μαλακίαν, etc. Luc. dial. mort. 10, 8; τήν ἐλευθερίαν καί παρρησίαν, ibid. 9, etc.). |
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