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Greek verb · G533

ἀπαρνέομαι

aparneomaiap-ar-neh'-om-ahee

to deny

11 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: aparnéomai

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G533is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 3 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 4
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G533

to deny utterly, i.e. disown, abstain

The King James renders it: deny.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

aparneomai is rendered "to deny". It stands 11 times in the Greek text, across three books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 16:24Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
  • The Greek text spells it four different ways.

The first use

Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

Matthew 16:24ἀπαρνησάσθω

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Four of the word's eleven uses are in Matthew.

The other 24 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • you will deny5
  • he should deny2
  • I will deny2
  • will be denied1
  • you may deny1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

ἀπαρχήaparchefirstfruitsUses9
ἀπαράβατοςaparabatospermanentUses1
ἀπαρτισμόςapartismoscompletionUses1
ἀπαρασκεύαστοςaparaskeuastosunpreparedUses1
ἀπάρτιapartihenceforthUsesnot recorded

All 11, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

4 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ἀπαρνήσῃ6
  • ἀπαρνησάσθω2
  • ἀπαρνήσομαι2
  • ἀπαρνηθήσεται1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · future middle form, indicative · 2nd person singular5V-FDI-2S
  • verb · aorist middle form, command · 3rd person singular2V-ADM-3S
  • verb · future middle form, indicative · 1st person singular2V-FDI-1S
  • verb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 2nd person singular1V-AMS-2S
  • verb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-FPI-3S

Matthew

four uses
  • Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

    Matthew 16:24

    • ἀπαρνησάσθωaparnesasthoverb · aorist middle form, command · 3rd person singulartagged: he should deny
  • “Truly I tell you,” Jesus declared, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”

    Matthew 26:34

    • ἀπαρνήσῃaparneseverb · future middle form, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you will deny
  • Peter replied, “Even if I have to die with You, I will never deny You.” And all the other disciples said the same thing.

    Matthew 26:35

    • ἀπαρνήσομαιaparnesomaiverb · future middle form, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I will deny
  • Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

    Matthew 26:75

    • ἀπαρνήσῃaparneseverb · future middle form, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you will deny

Mark

four uses
  • Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

    Mark 8:34

    • ἀπαρνησάσθωaparnesasthoverb · aorist middle form, command · 3rd person singulartagged: he should deny
  • “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.”

    Mark 14:30

    • ἀπαρνήσῃaparneseverb · future middle form, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you will deny
  • But Peter kept insisting, “Even if I have to die with You, I will never deny You.” And all the others said the same thing.

    Mark 14:31

    • ἀπαρνήσομαιaparnesomaiverb · future middle form, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I will deny
  • And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” And he broke down and wept.

    Mark 14:72

    • ἀπαρνήσῃaparneseverb · future middle form, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you will deny

Luke

three uses
  • But whoever denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God.

    Luke 12:9

    • ἀπαρνηθήσεταιaparnethesetaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will be denied
  • But Jesus replied, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know Me.”

    Luke 22:34

    • ἀπαρνήσῃaparneseverb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 2nd person singulartagged: you may deny
  • And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word that the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”

    Luke 22:61

    • ἀπαρνήσῃaparneseverb · future middle form, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you will deny

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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