Words

ἀφίημι G863

Home gloss

let go

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

bear / forgive / let go

Note

Let go, leave, release: of debts and sins (Matt 6:12), of nets (Matt 4:20), of a body (Matt 27:50). The note at 4:13

Rulings

1, 2

Declared to share English with

• G447 — one root: let go (ἀνίημι / ἀφίημι, of ἵημι) (146h)

Occurrences (3)

Genesis 4 (Septuagint)

• 4:13 And Cain said to the Lord, "Greater is my charge than that I be let go.

Genesis 18 (Septuagint)

• 18:26 Now the Lord said, "If I find in Sodom fifty just in the city, I will let go all the place for their sake."

Genesis 20 (Septuagint)

• 20:6 Now God said to him in sleep, "I too came to know that in a clean heart you did this, and I spared you, so that you should not sin against me; on account of this I did not let you touch her.