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19.
(
&$
, 3332), “to make a distinction, to remove, to lift away” (in its
transitive sense), is used intransitively in the NT, signifying “to depart,” and is said of
Christ, in Matt. 13:53; 19:1. It could be well translated “removed.”¶
20.
(
&
, 868), in the active voice, used transitively, signifies “to
cause to depart, to cause to revolt,” Acts 5:37; used intransitively, “to stand off, or aloof,
or to depart from anyone,” Luke 4:13; 13:27; Acts 5:38 (“refrain from”); 12:10; 15:38;
19:9; 22:29; 2 Cor. 12:8; metaphorically, “to fall away,” 2 Tim. 2:19; in the middle voice,
“to withdraw or absent oneself from,” Luke 2:37; to “apostatize,” Luke 8:13; 1 Tim. 4:1;
Heb. 3:12,
RV
, “falling away.” See
DRAW
(
AWAY
),
FALL
, No. 14,
REFRAIN
,
WITHDRAW
.¶
21.
(
1
, 525), lit., “to change from” ( , “from,”
, “to
change”), is used once of “departing,” said of the removal of diseases, Acts 19:12. In
Heb. 2:15 it signifies “to deliver, release.” In Luke 12:58, it is used in a legal sense, “to
be quit of” See
DELIVER
.¶
22.
(
&
, 3327) is rendered “to depart” in Matt. 8:34; 11:1; 12:9;
15:29; John 7:3; 13:1; Acts 18:7.
DEPARTING, DEPARTURE
1.
$
(
1
, 359), “an unloosing” (as of things woven), “a dissolving into
separate parts” (Eng., “analysis”), is once used of “departure from life,” 2 Tim. 4:6,
where the metaphor is either nautical, from loosing from moorings (thus used in Greek
poetry), or military, from breaking up an encampment; cf.
$
in 2 Cor. 5:1 (cf.
DEPART, No. 16).¶
2.
@
(
/
, 867), most frequently “an arrival” (akin to
, see
COME
), also signifies a “departure” ( , “from,”
, “to come”: etymologically,
to come far enough, reach; cf.
, “sufficient”), the “departure” being regarded in
relation to the end in view. Thus Paul speaks of his “departing,” Acts 20:29.¶
3.
@
(
+
, 1841): see
DECEASE
.
DEPOSE
(
$!
, 2507) lit. signifies “to take down” (
, “down,”
, “to
take”), the technical term for “removing a body after crucifixion,” e.g., Mark 15:36;
hence, “to pull down, demolish”; in Acts 19:27, according to the most authentic mss., the
translation is (as the
RV
) “that she (Diana) should even be deposed from her
magnificence” (possibly, in the partitive sense of the genitive, “destroyed from, or
diminished in, somewhat of her magnificence”). See
CAST
,
DESTROY
,
PULL
,
PUT
,
TAKE
(down).
For
DEPOSIT
see
COMMIT
, B, No. 1
DEPTH
1.
(
1
, 899): see
DEEP
.
2.
(
!
, 3989), “the sea,” Acts 27:5, denotes also “the depth” (of the
sea), Matt. 18:6. The word is most probably connected with a form of
, “to strike,”