apodēmeō · go abroad

What it means

apodēmeō (ἀποδημέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “go abroad”.

Go on a journey, be away from home.

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. Leave for another land for a time.

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

How it is translated

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

• went away on a journey ×2
• going on a journey ×1
• he went on his journey ×1
• went abroad ×1
• went away ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×1
• Luke×2

• Matthew 21:33

  Hear another parable. There was a man, a master of a house, who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower, and leased it to tenant farmers and went away on a journey.

• Matthew 25:14

  For it is just as a man going on a journey called his own slaves and handed over to them his possessions.

• Matthew 25:15

  And to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey. At once

• Mark 12:1

  And he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenant farmers and went away on a journey.

• Luke 15:13

  And not many days later, the younger son, gathering together everything, went away to a distant country, and there he squandered his estate living recklessly.

• Luke 20:9

  And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad for a long time.