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To release

ἀπαλλάσσωStrong’s G0525

apallassō

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Apallassō is the Greek word usually translated “have been set free”, “departing” and “may set free”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.”
Luke 12:58 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “have been set free”, “departing” and “may set free”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • to have been set free 1
  • departing 1
  • may set free 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1
  • Acts 1
  • Hebrews 1

3 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

ἀπαλλάσσω apallassō · to release

ἀπ-αλλάσσω [in LXX for סוּר hi., etc. ;] to remove, release: Heb.2:15; pass., to depart: Act.19:12; in legal sense (MM, VGT, see word), before ἀπό, with genitive of person(s), to be quit of: Luk.12:58 (Cremer, 90, 632).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “release” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

RELE'ASE, verb transitive

  1. To set free from restraint of any kind, either physical or moral; to liberate from prison, confinement or servitude.
  2. To free from pain, care, trouble, grief, etc.
  3. To free from obligation or penalty; as, to release one from debt, from a promise or covenant.
  4. To quit; to let go, as a legal claim; as, to release a debt or forfeiture. Deuteronomy 15:1
All definitions and other forms of “release”
  1. To discharge or relinquish a right to lands or tenements, by conveying it to another that has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; when one co-parcener releases his right to the other; or the mortgagee releases his claim to the mortgager.
  2. To relax. [Not in use.]

RELE'ASE, noun

  1. Liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage.
  2. Liberation from care, pain or any burden.
  3. Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty or claim of any kind; acquittance.
  4. In law, a release or deed of release is a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.