Word Summary
apōtheō: to thrust away
Original Word: ἀπωθέωTransliteration: apōtheō
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-o-theh'-om-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to thrust away
Meaning: to thrust away
Strong's Concordance
cast away, thrust away from.
Or apothomai ap-o'-thom-ahee from apo and the middle voice of otheo or otho (to shove); to push off, figuratively, to reject -- cast away, put away (from), thrust away (from).
see GREEK apo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 683: ἀπωθέωἀπωθέω,
ἀπώθω:
to thrust away, push away, repel; in the N. T. only the middle, present
ἀπωθέομαι (
ἀπωθοῦμαι); 1 aorist
ἀπωσάμην (for which the better writings used
ἀπεωσαμην, cf. W 90 (86);
Buttmann, 69 (61));
to thrust away from oneself, to drive away from oneself, i. e. to repudiate, reject, refuse:
τινα,
Acts 7:27, 39;
Acts 13:46;
Romans 11:1;
1 Timothy 1:19. (
Jeremiah 2:36 (37);
Jeremiah 4:30;
Jeremiah 6:19;
Psalm 93:14 () and often. In Greek writings from Homer down.)