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Greek verb · G660

ἀποτινάσσω

apotinassoap-ot-in-as'-so

to shake off

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

Concordance spelling: apotinássō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G660is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G660

to brush off

The King James renders it: shake off.

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

apotinasso is rendered "to shake off". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.

  • One of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 9:5If anyone does not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that town, as a testimony against them.”
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

If anyone does not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that town, as a testimony against them.”

Luke 9:5ἀποτινάσσετε

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

Where the word stands

One of the word's two uses is in Luke.

The other 25 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 shake off1
  • having shaken off1

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.

ἀποτίθημιapotithemito put asideUses9
ἀποτάσσομαιapotassomaito leaveUses6
ἀποτελέωapoteleoto completeUses2
ἀποτομίαapotomiaseverityUses2
ἀποτόμωςapotomosseverelyUses2
ἀποτίνωapotinoto repayUses1
ἀποτρέπωapotrepoto avoidUses1
ἀποτολμάωapotolmaobe boldUses1

All 2, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

2 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

  • ἀποτινάξας1
  • ἀποτινάσσετε1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-AAP-NSM
  • verb · present active, command · 2nd person plural1V-PAM-2P

Luke

one use
  • If anyone does not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that town, as a testimony against them.”

    Luke 9:5

    • ἀποτινάσσετεapotinasseteverb · present active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do shake off

Acts

one use
  • But Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.

    Acts 28:5

    • ἀποτινάξαςapotinaxasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having shaken off

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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