Definition

to go off (i.e. depart), aside (i.e. apart) or behind (i.e. follow), literally or figuratively

Etymology

from G575 (ἀπό) and G2064 (ἔρχομαι);

Where the KJV renders it

• come
• depart
• go (aside
• away
• back
• out
• … ways)
• pass away
• be past

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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