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Greek verb · G591

ἀποδίδωμι

apodidomiap-od-eed'-o-mee

to pay

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

Concordance spelling: apodídōmi

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G591is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 12 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 25
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G591

to give away, i.e. up, over, back, etc. (in various applications)

The King James renders it: deliver (again), give (again), (re-)pay(-ment be made), perform, recompense, render, requite, restore, reward, sell, yield.

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

apodidomi is rendered "to pay". It stands 48 times in the Greek text, across twelve books.

  • Eighteen of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:26Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-five different ways.

The first use

Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.

Matthew 5:26ἀποδῷς

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

Where the word stands

Eighteen of the word's forty-eight uses are in Matthew.

The other 15 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

  • do give back4
  • will give3
  • will reward3
  • do pay2
  • he may pay2
  • I will pay2
  • repaying2
  • sold2
  • to give2
  • to pay2
  • do give1
  • do render1

and 22 more, 48 uses in all

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.

ἀποδοκιμάζωapodokimazoto rejectUses9
ἀποδέχομαιapodechomaito receiveUses7
ἀποδημέωapodemeoto go abroadUses6
ἀποδεκατόωapodekatooto titheUses4
ἀποδείκνυμιapodeiknymito displayUses4
ἀποδοχήapodocheacceptanceUses2
ἀπόδεκτοςapodektospleasingUses2
ἀπόδημοςapodemosabsentUses1
ἀπόδειξιςapodeixisdemonstrationUses1
ἀποδιορίζωapodiorizoto divideUses1

All 48, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

25 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

  • ἀποδώσει7
  • ἀπόδοτε5
  • ἀποδοῦναι4
  • ἀπόδος3
  • ἀποδῷ3
  • ἀποδώσουσιν3
  • ἀποδώσω3
  • ἀπέδωκεν2
  • ἀποδιδόντες2
  • ἀπέδετο1
  • ἀπεδίδουν1
  • ἀπέδοντο1

and 13 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singular7V-FAI-3S
  • verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person plural5V-2AAM-2P
  • verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)4V-2AAN
  • verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singular3V-2AAM-2S
  • verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular3V-2AAS-3S
  • verb · future active, indicative · 1st person singular3V-FAI-1S
  • verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person plural3V-FAI-3P
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-2AAI-3S
  • verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person singular2V-2AAS-2S
  • verb · aorist passive, infinitive (“to…”)2V-APN
  • verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2V-PAP-NPM
  • verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-2AAP-NSM

Matthew

eighteen uses
  • Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.

    Matthew 5:26

    • ἀποδῷςapodosverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person singulartagged: you may pay
  • Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’

    Matthew 5:33

    • ἀποδώσειςapodoseisverb · future active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you will keep
  • so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

    Matthew 6:4

    • ἀποδώσειapodoseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will reward
  • But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

    Matthew 6:6

    • ἀποδώσειapodoseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will reward
  • so that your fasting will not be obvious to men, but only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

    Matthew 6:18

    • ἀποδώσειapodoseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will reward
  • But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.

    Matthew 12:36

    • ἀποδώσουσινapodosousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they will give
  • For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.

    Matthew 16:27

    • ἀποδώσειapodoseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He will give
  • Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.

    Matthew 18:25

    • ἀποδοῦναιapodounaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to pay
    • ἀποδοθῆναι.¶apodothenaiverb · aorist passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: payment to be made
  • Then the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Have patience with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’

    Matthew 18:26

    • ἀποδώσωapodosoverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I will pay
  • But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’

    Matthew 18:28

    • ἀπόδοςapodosverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do pay
  • So his fellow servant fell down and begged him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you back.’

    Matthew 18:29

    • ἀποδώσωapodosoverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I will pay
  • But he refused. Instead, he went and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay his debt.

    Matthew 18:30

    • ἀποδῷapodoverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: he may pay
  • In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed.

    Matthew 18:34

    • ἀποδῷapodoverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: he may pay
  • When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.’

    Matthew 20:8

    • ἀπόδοςapodosverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do pay
  • “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”

    Matthew 21:41

    • ἀποδώσουσινapodosousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will give
  • “Caesar’s,” they answered. So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

    Matthew 22:21

    • ἀπόδοτεapodoteverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do give back
  • He went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

    Matthew 27:58

    • ἀποδοθῆναιapodothenaiverb · aorist passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be given up

Mark

one use
  • Then Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” And they marveled at Him.

    Mark 12:17

    • ἀπόδοτεapodoteverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do give back

Luke

eight uses
  • Then He rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him,

    Luke 4:20

    • ἀποδοὺςapodousverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having delivered
  • When they were unable to repay him, he forgave both of them. Which one, then, will love him more?”

    Luke 7:42

    • ἀποδοῦναιapodounaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to pay
  • Even while the boy was approaching, the demon slammed him to the ground in a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

    Luke 9:42

    • ἀπέδωκενapedokenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: gave back
  • The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Take care of him,’ he said, ‘and on my return I will repay you for any additional expense.’

    Luke 10:35

    • ἀποδώσωapodosoverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: will repay
  • I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the very last penny.”

    Luke 12:59

    • ἀποδῷς.¶apodosverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person singulartagged: you may have paid
  • So he called him in to ask, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in an account of your management, for you cannot be manager any longer.’

    Luke 16:2

    • ἀπόδοςapodosverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do give
  • But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone, I will repay it fourfold.”

    Luke 19:8

    • ἀποδίδωμιapodidomiverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I restore
  • So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

    Luke 20:25

    • ἀπόδοτεapodoteverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do give back

Acts

four uses
  • With great power the apostles continued to give their testimony about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And abundant grace was upon them all.

    Acts 4:33

    • ἀπεδίδουνapedidounverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were giving
  • “Tell me,” said Peter, “is this the price you and your husband got for the land?” “Yes,” she answered, “that is the price.”

    Acts 5:8

    • ἀπέδοσθεapedostheverb · aorist middle, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you sold
  • Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

    Acts 7:9

    • ἀπέδοντοapedontoverb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: sold
  • For we are in jeopardy of being charged with rioting for today’s events, and we have no justification to account for this commotion.”

    Acts 19:40

    • ἀποδοῦναιapodounaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to render

Romans

three uses
  • God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”

    Romans 2:6

    • ἀποδώσειapodoseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will give
  • Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.

    Romans 12:17

    • ἀποδιδόντεςapodidontesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: repaying
  • Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

    Romans 13:7

    • ἀπόδοτεapodoteverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do render

1 Corinthians

one use
  • The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

    1 Corinthians 7:3

    • ἀποδιδότωapodidotoverb · present active, command · 3rd person singulartagged: should fulfill

1 Thessalonians

one use
  • Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people.

    1 Thessalonians 5:15

    • ἀποδῷapodoverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: may repay

1 Timothy

one use
  • But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

    1 Timothy 5:4

    • ἀποδιδόναιapodidonaiverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to give

2 Timothy

two uses
  • From now on there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but to all who crave His appearing.

    2 Timothy 4:8

    • ἀποδώσειapodoseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will award
  • Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

    2 Timothy 4:14

    • ἀποδώσειapodoseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: Will render

Hebrews

three uses
  • No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

    Hebrews 12:11

    • ἀποδίδωσινapodidosinverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: it yields
  • See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

    Hebrews 12:16

    • ἀπέδετοapedetoverb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: sold
  • Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

    Hebrews 13:17

    • ἀποδώσοντεςapodosontesverb · future active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: to be giving

1 Peter

two uses
  • Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.

    1 Peter 3:9

    • ἀποδιδόντεςapodidontesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: repaying
  • But they will have to give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

    1 Peter 4:5

    • ἀποδώσουσινapodosousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will give

Revelation

four uses
  • Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.

    Revelation 18:6

    • ἀπόδοτεapodoteverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do give back
    • ἀπέδωκενapedokenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has rendered
  • down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

    Revelation 22:2

    • ἀποδιδοῦνapodidounverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: yielding
  • “Behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me, to give to each one according to what he has done.

    Revelation 22:12

    • ἀποδοῦναιapodounaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to give

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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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