Greek verb · G873
ἀφορίζω
aphorizoaf-or-id'-zo
to separate
10 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: aphorízō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G873is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G873
to set off by boundary, i.e. (figuratively) limit, exclude, appoint, etc.
The King James renders it: divide, separate, sever.
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
aphorizo is rendered "to separate". It stands 10 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 13:49So will it be at the end of the age: The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous,
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
So will it be at the end of the age: The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous,
Matthew 13:49ἀφοριοῦσιν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's ten uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- do be separate1
- do set apart1
- having selected1
- he took separately1
- he was separating1
- He will separate1
- separates1
- set apart1
- they may exclude1
- will separate1
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.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- ἀφορίζει1
- ἀφοριοῦσιν1
- ἀφορίσας1
- ἀφορίσατε1
- ἀφορίσει1
- ἀφορίσθητε1
- ἀφορίσωσιν1
- ἀφώριζεν1
- ἀφώρισεν1
- ἀφωρισμένος1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person plural1V-AAM-2P
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-AAP-NSM
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person plural1V-AAS-3P
- verb · aorist passive, command · 2nd person plural1V-APM-2P
- verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-FAI-3P
- verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-FAI-3S
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-IAI-3S
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PAI-3S
- verb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-RPP-NSM
Matthew
three uses
So will it be at the end of the age: The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous,
- ἀφοριοῦσινaphoriousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will separate
All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
- ἀφορίσειaphoriseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He will separate
- ἀφορίζειaphorizeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: separates
Luke
one use
Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
- ἀφορίσωσινaphorisosinverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: they may exclude
Acts
two uses
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
- ἀφορίσατεaphorisateverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do set apart
But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
- ἀφώρισενaphorisenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he took separately
Romans
one use
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—
- ἀφωρισμένοςaphorismenosverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: set apart
2 Corinthians
one use
“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
- ἀφορίσθητεaphoristheteverb · aorist passive, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do be separate
Galatians
two uses
But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
- ἀφορίσαςaphorisasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having selected
For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.
- ἀφώριζενaphorizenverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he was separating
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.