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Greek verb · G617

ἀποκυλίω

apokylioap-ok-oo-lee'-o

to roll away

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

Concordance spelling: apokylíō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G617is 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) · G617

to roll away

The King James renders it: roll away (back).

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

apokylio is rendered "to roll away". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.

  • Two of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 28:2Suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, rolled away the stone, and sat on it.
  • The Greek text spells it four different ways.

The first use

Suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, rolled away the stone, and sat on it.

Matthew 28:2ἀπεκύλισεν

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

Where the word stands

Two of the word's four uses are in Mark.

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

  • has been rolled away1
  • he rolled away1
  • rolled away1
  • will roll away1

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.

ἀποκρίνομαιapokrinomaito answerUses231
ἀποκτείνωapokteinoto killUses74
ἀποκαλύπτωapokalyptoto revealUses26
ἀποκάλυψιςapokalypsisrevelationUses17
ἀποκαθίστημιapokathistemito restoreUses8
ἀποκόπτωapokoptoto cut offUses6
ἀπόκειμαιapokeimaito lay upUses4
ἀπόκρισιςapokrisisanswerUses4
ἀποκρύπτωapokryptoto concealUses4
ἀποκεφαλίζωapokephalizoto beheadUses4
ἀπόκρυφοςapokryphosconcealedUses3
ἀποκυέωapokyeoto generateUses2

and 5 more on the stem.

All 4, 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

  • ἀπεκύλισεν1
  • ἀποκεκυλισμένον1
  • ἀποκεκύλισται1
  • ἀποκυλίσει1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AAI-3S
  • verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-FAI-3S
  • verb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-RPI-3S
  • verb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singular1V-RPP-ASM

Matthew

one use
  • Suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, rolled away the stone, and sat on it.

    Matthew 28:2

    • ἀπεκύλισενapekulisenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he rolled away

Mark

two uses
  • They were asking one another, “Who will roll away the stone from the entrance of the tomb?”

    Mark 16:3

    • ἀποκυλίσειapokuliseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will roll away
  • But when they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away, even though it was extremely large.

    Mark 16:4

    • ἀποκεκύλισταιapokekulistaiverb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has been rolled away

Luke

one use
  • They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

    Luke 24:2

    • ἀποκεκυλισμένονapokekulismenonverb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: rolled away

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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