Greek

To go away

ἀπέρχομαιStrong’s G0565

aperchomai

Appears in 118 verses of the New Testament

In short

Aperchomai is the Greek word usually translated “having gone away”, “having gone” and “went away”. It appears in 118 verses of the New Testament.

“Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”

Jude 1:7 KJV

Meaning

Usually translated “having gone away”, “having gone” and “went away”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

having gone away 13
having gone 13
went away 12
they went away 8
he went away 8
he departed 8
to go 4
to go away 4

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

Where it's used most

Matthew 34
Mark 23
Luke 21
John 21
Revelation 8
Acts 7

10 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

All 118 verses, by book

Matthew 34: 2:22 4:24 5:30 8:18 8:19 8:21 8:32 8:33 9:7 10:5 13:25 13:28 13:46 14:15 14:16 16:4 16:21 18:30 19:22 21:29 21:30 22:5 22:22 25:10 25:18 25:25 25:46 26:36 26:42 26:44 27:5 27:60 28:8 28:10
Mark 23: 1:20 1:35 1:42 3:13 5:17 5:20 5:24 6:27 6:32 6:36 6:37 6:46 7:24 7:30 8:13 9:43 10:22 11:4 12:12 14:10 14:12 14:39 16:13
Luke 21: 1:23 1:38 2:15 5:13 5:14 5:25 7:24 8:31 8:34 8:37 8:39 9:57 9:59 9:60 10:30 17:23 19:32 22:4 22:13 24:12 24:24
John 21: 4:3 4:8 4:28 4:43 4:47 5:15 6:1 6:22 6:66 6:68 9:7 9:11 10:40 11:28 11:46 11:54 12:19 12:36 16:7 18:6 20:10
Acts 7: 4:15 5:26 9:17 10:7 16:39 23:32 28:29
Romans 1: 15:28
Galatians 1: 1:17
James 1: 1:24
Jude 1: 1:7
Revelation 8: 9:12 10:9 11:14 12:17 16:2 18:14 21:1 21:4

Greek dictionary

ἀπέρχομαι aperchomai · to go away

ἀπέρχομαι, [in LXX chiefly for הלךְ ;] 1. to go away, depart (also, in late writers, with "perfective" force, to arrive at a destination, the thought being carried on to the goal; M, Pr., 111f., 247; MM, see word); (a) absol.: Mat.13:25, al.; ptcp., ἀπελθών, used pleonastically with other verbs as in Heb. (Dalman, Words, 21), Mat.13:28, al.; (b) with mention of place or person: εἰς, Mat.14:15; ἐπί, Luk.24:24; πρός, Rev.10:9; ἀπό, Luk.1:38; ἐξω, Act.4:15; ἐκεῖ, Mat.2:22. …

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

DEPART, verb intransitive

To go or move from.“DEPART from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire” Matthew 25:41
To go from; to leave; to desist, as from a practice.
To leave; to deviate from; to forsake; not to adhere to or follow; as, we cannot depart from our rules.“I have not departed from thy judgments” Psalms 119:102
To desist; to leave; to abandon; as, he would not depart from his purpose, resolution, or demand.

All definitions and other forms of “depart”

To be lost; to perish; to vanish; as, his glory has departed.
To die; to decease; to leave this world.“Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word” Luke 2:29
To cease.
To deviate; to vary from.
To vary; to deviate from the title or defense in pleading.
To part with.

DEPART, verb transitive

To divide or separate; to part.

DEPART, noun

The act of going away; death.
Division; separation.

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.