aphorizō · set apart, separate

What it means

aphorizō (ἀφορίζω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “set apart, separate”.

Separate, set apart; also mark off by boundaries.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To set someone or something to one side, apart from the rest, for a purpose.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• separate ×3
• Set apart ×2
• separated ×1
• separates ×1
• separating ×1
• set me apart ×1
• they exclude ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Luke×1
• Acts×2
• Romans×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×2

• Matthew 13:49

  So it will be at the end of the age: the angels will go out and separate the evil from among the righteous

• Matthew 25:32

  And all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another, just as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;

• Luke 6:22

  Happy are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.

• Acts 13:2

  And while they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart now for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

• Acts 19:9

  But when some were hardened and refused to believe, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he withdrew from them and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

• Romans 1:1

  Paul, a slave of the Messiah Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the good news of God,

• 2 Corinthians 6:17

  Therefore, “Come out from their midst and be separate, says the Lord, and do not touch what is unclean; and I will welcome you,

• Galatians 1:15

  But when the one who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace was pleased

• Galatians 2:12

  For before certain people came from James, he was eating with people of the nations; but when they came, he began drawing back and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision.

And 1 more times.