ἀπολύω; [imperfect 
ἀπέλυον]; future 
ἀπολύσω; 1 aorist 
ἀπέλυσα; passive, perfect 
ἀπολέλυμαι; 1 aorist 
ἀπελύθην; [future 
ἀπολυθήσομαι]; imperfect middle 
ἀπελυόμην (
Acts 28:25); used in the 
N. T. only in the historical books and in 
Hebrews 13:23; 
to loose from, sever by loosening, undo [see 
ἀπό, V.];
1. to set free: 
τινά τινος (so in Greek writings even from Homer down), to liberate one from a thing (as from a bond), 
Luke 13:12 (
ἀπολέλυσαι [thou hast been loosed 
i. e.] be thou free from [cf. Winer's Grammar, § 40, 4] 
τῆς ἀσθενείας [L T 
ἀπὸ τ. 
ἀσθ.]).
2. to let go, dismiss (to detain no longer); 
τινά,
a. a suppliant to whom liberty to depart is given by a decisive answer: 
Matthew 15:23; 
Luke 2:29 ('me whom thou hadst determined to keep on earth until I had seen the salvation prepared for Israel, cf. 
Luke 2:26, thou art now dismissing with my wish accomplished, and this dismission is at the same time dismission also from life' — in reference to which 
ἀπολύειν is used in 
Numbers 20:29; Tobit 3:6; [cf. 
Genesis 15:2; 
2 Macc. 7:9; Plutarch, consol. ad Apoll. § 13 cf. 11 at the end]); [
Acts 23:22].
b. to bid depart, send away: 
Matthew 14:15, 
22; 
Matthew 15:32, 
39; 
Mark 6:36, 
45; 
Mark 8:3, 
9; 
Luke 8:38; 
Luke 9:12; 
Luke 14:4; 
Acts 13:3; 
Acts 19:41 (
τὴν ἐκκλησίαν); passive 
Acts 15:30, 
33.
3. to let go free, to release;
a. a captive, 
i. e. to loose his bonds and bid him depart, to give him liberty to depart: 
Luke 22:68 [R G L Tr in brackets]; 
Luke 23:22; 
John 19:10; 
Acts 16:35; 
Acts 26:32 (
ἀπολελύσθαι ἐδύνατο [might have been set at liberty, cf. Buttmann, 217 (187), § 139, 27 c.; Winers Grammar, 305 (286) 
i. e.] might be free; perfect as in 
Luke 13:12 [see 1 above, and Winer's Grammar, 334 (313)]); 
Acts 28:18; 
Hebrews 13:23; 
ἀπολ. 
τινά τινι, 
to release one to one, grant him his liberty: 
Matthew 27:15, 
17, 
21, 
26; 
Mark 15:6, 
9, 
11, 
15; [
Luke 23:16], 
Luke 23:17 [R L in brackets], 
Luke 23:18, 
20, 
25; [
John 18:39].
b. to acquit one accused of a crime and set him at liberty: 
John 19:12; 
Acts 3:13.
c. indulgently to grant a prisoner leave to depart: 
Acts 4:21, 
23; 
Acts 5:40; 
Acts 17:9.
d. to release a debtor, 
i. e. not to press one's claim against him, to remit his debt: 
Matthew 18:27; metaphorically, to pardon another his offences against me: 
Luke 6:37 (
τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἀπολύεσθαι, 2 Macc. 12:45).
4. used of divorce, as 
ἀπολύω τὴν γυναῖκα to dismiss from the house, 
to repudiate: 
Matthew 1:19; 
Matthew 5:31; 
Matthew 19:3, 
7-9; 
Mark 10:2, 
4, 
11; 
Luke 16:18; [1 Esdr. 9:36]; and improperly a wife deserting her husband is said 
τὸν ἄνδρα ἀπολύειν in 
Mark 10:12 [cf. Diodorus 12, 18] (unless, as is more probable, Mark, contrary to historic accuracy [yet cf. Josephus, Antiquities 15, 7, 10], makes Jesus speak in accordance with Greek and Roman usage, according to which wives also repudiated their husbands [references in Meyer, at the passage]); (cf. 
שִׁלַּח, 
Jeremiah 3:8; 
Deuteronomy 21:14; 
Deuteronomy 22:19, 
29).
5. Middle 
ἀπολύομαι, properly, to send oneself away; 
to depart [Winer's Grammar, 253 (238)]: 
Acts 28:25 (returned home; 
Exodus 33:11). 
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