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Koine Greek wordlink #94185

SR GNT Acts 15:20 ἀπέχεσθαι (apeⱪesthai) ‘but to write to them to_be keeping_away from the pollutions of idols’ Strongs=5680 Lemma=apeχō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=present voice=middle
Year=51 AD Event=Jerusalem_Council TimeSeries=Jerusalem_Council,Second_Missionary_Journey Refers to Word #94173

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Other uses (4) of identical word form ἀπέχεσθαι (V-NPM····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀπέχεσθαι’ (V-NPM····) is always and only glossed as ‘to_be keeping_away’.

Acts 15:29 ‘to_be keeping_away from idol_sacrificed things and from blood’ SR GNT Acts 15:29 word 1

OET-LV: 29 to _be _keeping _away from _idol _sacrificed things, and from _blood, and from _strangled animals, and from _sexual _immorality, from which keeping yourselves, you _all _will _be _doing well. Stay _strong. (ACT_15:29)

OET-RV: 29 you all must keep away from anything sacrificed to idols, from eating or drinking blood or strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you avoid these things. Farewell. (ACT 15:29)

1 Th 4:3 ‘the holiness of you_all to_be keeping_away you_all from sexual_immorality’ SR GNT 1 Th 4:3 word 11

OET-LV: 3 For/Because this is the_will of_ the _god, the holiness of _you _all, to _be _keeping _away you _all from the sexual _immorality, (TH1_4:3)

OET-RV: 3 Because this is God’s will: that you all stay holy, keeping away from all sexual immorality, (TH1 4:3)

1 Tim 4:3 ‘forbidding to_be marrying to_be keeping_away from foods that god’ SR GNT 1 Tim 4:3 word 3

OET-LV: 3 forbidding to _be _marrying, to _be _keeping _away from _foods that the god created for partaking with thanksgiving by _the faithful ones and having _known the truth. (TI1_4:3)

OET-RV: 3 telling people not to get married and to keep away from foods that God created for faithful people who know the truth to be able to eat with thankfulness. (TI1 4:3)

1 Pet 2:11 ‘sojourners and aliens to_be keeping_away from the fleshly desires’ SR GNT 1 Pet 2:11 word 7

OET-LV: 11 Beloved, I _am _exhorting as sojourners and aliens, to _be _keeping _away from _the fleshly desires, which are _warring against your soul, (PE1_2:11)

OET-RV: 11 Dear friends, I’m urging you all as travellers and foreigners to keep away from worldly temptations which are in a battle against your soul. (PE1 2:11)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘apeχō’ have 9 different glosses: ‘be keeping_away’, ‘is being_away’, ‘to_be keeping_away’, ‘I am receiving_fully’, ‘it is receiving_fully’, ‘they are receiving_fully’, ‘you may receive_fully’, ‘you_all are receiving_fully’, ‘being_away’.

Greek words (1) other than ἀπέχεσθαι (V-NPM····) with a gloss related to ‘keeping_away’

1 TH 5:22 ἀπέχεσθε (apeⱪesthe) V-MPM2··P ‘every appearance of evil be keeping_away’ SR GNT 1 Th 5:22 word 5

OET-LV: 22 From every appearance of _evil be _keeping _away. (TH1_5:22)

OET-RV: 22 but keeping away from everything that seems to be evil. (TH1 5:22)

Key: V=verb