ἀποδίδωμι

ἀποδίδωμι — apodídōmi

ἀποδίδωμι, present participle neuter ἀποδιδοῦν (from the form ἀποδιδόω, Rev 22:2, where T Tr WH marginal reading ἀποδιδούς (see WH's Appendix, p. 167)); imperfect 3 person plural ἀπεδίδουν (for the more common ἀπεδίδοσαν, Act 4:33; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 14, 1 c.); future ἀποδώσω; 1 aorist ἀπέδωκα; 2 aorist ἀπεδων, imperative ἀπόδος, subjunctive 3 person singular ἀποδῷ and in 1Th 5:15 Tdf. ἀποδοι (see δίδωμι), optative 3 person singular ἀποδῴη (or rather, ἀποδῴη; for ἀποδῴη is a subjunctive form) (2Ti 4:14, for ἀποδοιη, cf. Winers Grammar, § 14, 1 g.; Buttmann, 46 (40); yet L T Tr WH ἀποδώσει); passive, 1 aorist infinitive ἀποδοθῆναι; middle, 2 aorist ἀπεδομην, 3 person singular ἀπέδοτο (Heb 12:16, where L WH ἀπέδετο; cf. Buttmann, 47 (41); Delitzsch on Hebrew, p. 632 note; (WHs Appendix, p. 167)); a common verb in Greek writings from Homer down, and the N. T. does not deviate at all from their use of it; properly, to put away by giving, to give up, give over (German abgeben (cf. Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part iv., p. 12f who regards ἀπό as denoting to give from some reserved store, or to give over something which might have been retained, or to lay off some burden of debt or duty; cf. Cope on Aristotle, rhet. 1, 1, 7));

1. to deliver, relinquish what is one's own: τό σῶμα τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, Mat 27:58; hence, in middle to give away for one's own profit what is one's own, i. e. to sell (Winer's Grammar, 253 (238)): τί, Act 5:8; Heb 12:16; τινα, Act 7:9 (often in this sense in Greek writings, especially the Attic, from Herodotus 1, 70 down; in the Sept. for מָכַר, Gen 25:33 etc.; Bar 6:27 (i. e. Epistle Jer.) (28)).

2. to pay off, discharge, what is due (because a debt, like a burden, is thrown off, ἀπό, by being paid): a debt (German abtragen), Mat 5:26; Mat 18:25-30; Mat 18:34; Luk 7:42; Luk 10:35; Luk 12:59; wages, Mat 20:8; tribute and other dues to the government, Mat 22:21; Mar 12:17; Luk 20:25; Rom 13:7; produce due, Mat 21:41; Heb 12:11; Rev 22:2; ὅρκους things promised under oath, Mat 5:33, cf. Num 30:3 (εὐχήν a vow, Deu 23:21, etc.); conjugal duty, 1Co 7:3; ἀμοιβάς grateful requitals, 1Ti 5:4; λόγον to render account: Mat 12:36; Luk 16:2; Act 19:40; Rom 14:12 L text Tr text; Heb 13:17; 1Pe 4:5; μαρτύριον, to give testimony (as something officially due), Act 4:33. Hence,

3. to give back, restore: Luk 4:20; ( Lachmann marginal reading);.

4. to requite, recompense, in a good or a bad sense: Mat 6:4; Mat 6:6; Mat 6:18; Mat 16:27; Rom 2:6; 2Ti 4:1-22 :,; Rev 18:6; Rev 22:12; κακόν ἀντί κακοῦ, Rom 12:17; 1Th 5:15; 1Pe 3:9. (Compare: ἀνταποδίδωμι.)