- Transliteration: Apoluo

- Phonetic: ap-ol-oo'-o

- Definition:

1. to set free

2. to let go, dismiss, (to detain no longer)

a. a petitioner to whom liberty to depart is given by a decisive answer

b. to bid depart, send away

3. to let go free, release

a. a captive i.e. to loose his bonds and bid him depart, to give him liberty to depart

b. to acquit one accused of a crime and set him at liberty

c. indulgently to grant a prisoner leave to depart

d. to release a debtor, i.e. not to press one's claim against him, to remit his debt

4. used of divorce, to dismiss from the house, to repudiate. The wife of a Greek or Roman may divorce her husband.

5. to send one's self away, to depart

- Origin: from G575" class="dictionary-topic-link">G575 and G3089" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3089

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From G575" class="dictionary-topic-link">G575 and G3089" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3089; to free fully that is (literally) relieve release dismiss (reflexively depart) or (figuratively) let die pardon or (specifically) divorce: - (let) depart dismiss divorce forgive let go loose put (send) away release set at liberty.