ἀποδίδωμι, present participle neuter 
ἀποδιδοῦν (from the form 
-διδόω, 
Revelation 22:2, where 
T Tr WH marginal reading 
-διδούς [see WH's Appendix, p. 167]); imperfect 3 person plural 
ἀπεδίδουν (for the more common 
ἀπεδίδοσαν, 
Acts 4:33; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 14, 1 c.); future 
ἀποδώσω; 1 aorist 
ἀπέδωκα; 2 aorist 
ἀπέδων, imperative 
ἀπόδος, subjunctive 3 person singular 
ἀποδῷ and in 
1 Thessalonians 5:15 Tdf. 
ἀποδοῖ (see 
δίδωμι), optative 3 person singular 
ἀποδώῃ [or rather, 
-δῴη; for 
-δώῃ is a subjunctive form] (
2 Timothy 4:14, for 
ἀποδοίη, cf. Winers Grammar, § 14, 1 g.; Buttmann, 46 (40); yet 
L T Tr WH ἀποδώσει); passive, 1 aorist infinitive 
ἀποδοθῆναι; middle, 2 aorist 
ἀπεδόμην, 3 person singular 
ἀπέδοτο (
Hebrews 12:16, where L WH 
ἀπέδετο; cf. Buttmann, 47 (41); Delitzsch on Hebrew, p. 632 note; [WHs Appendix, p. 167]); a common verb in Greek writings from Homer down, and the 
N. T. does not deviate at all from their use of it; properly, 
to put away by giving, to give up, give over (German 
abgeben [cf. 
Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part iv., p. 12f 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 Aristotle, rhet. 1, 1, 7]);
1. to deliver, relinquish what is one's own: 
τὸ σῶμα τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, 
Matthew 27:58; hence, in middle 
to give away for one's own profit what is one's own, 
i. e. to sell [Winer's Grammar, 253 (238)]: 
τί, 
Acts 5:8; 
Hebrews 12:16; 
τινά, 
Acts 7:9 (often in this sense in Greek writings, especially the Attic, from Herodotus 1, 70 down; in the 
Sept. for 
מָכַר, 
Genesis 25:33 etc.; Baruch 6 
[i. e. Epistle 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 (German 
abtragen), 
Matthew 5:26; 
Matthew 18:25-30, 
34; 
Luke 7:42; 
Luke 10:35; 
Luke 12:59; wages, 
Matthew 20:8; tribute and other dues to the government, 
Matthew 22:21; 
Mark 12:17; 
Luke 20:25; 
Romans 13:7; produce due, 
Matthew 21:41; 
Hebrews 12:11; 
Revelation 22:2; 
ὅρκους things promised under oath, 
Matthew 5:33, cf. 
Numbers 30:3 (
εὐχήν a vow, 
Deuteronomy 23:21, etc.); conjugal duty, 
1 Corinthians 7:3; 
ἀμοιβάς grateful requitals, 
1 Timothy 5:4; 
λόγον to render account: 
Matthew 12:36; 
Luke 16:2; 
Acts 19:40; 
Romans 14:12 L text Tr text; 
Hebrews 13:17; 
1 Peter 4:5; 
μαρτύριον, to give testimony (as something officially due), 
Acts 4:33. Hence,
3. to give back, restore: 
Luke 4:20; [
Luke 7:15 Lachmann marginal reading]; 
Luke 9:42; 
19:8.
4. to requite, recompense, in a good or a bad sense: 
Matthew 6:4, 
6, 
18; 
Matthew 16:27; 
Romans 2:6; [
2 Tim 4:8], 
2 Tim 4:14; 
Revelation 18:6; 
Revelation 22:12; 
κακὸν ἀντὶ κακοῦ, 
Romans 12:17; 
1 Thessalonians 5:15; 
1 Peter 3:9. [Compare: 
ἀνταποδίδωμι.] 
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