# G868 ἀφίστημι

ἀφίστημι (aphístēmi), Strong’s G868: to remove, i.e. (actively) instigate to revolt; usually (reflexively) to desist, desert, etc. KJV: depart, draw (fall) away, refrain, withdraw self. Occurs 209…

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*aphístēmi* — to remove, i.e. (actively) instigate to revolt; usually (reflexively) to desist, desert, etc.

KJV: depart, draw (fall) away, refrain, withdraw self

Built from [ἀπό apó](https://besorah.bible/word/G575) ("off," i.e. away) + [ἵστημι hístēmi](https://besorah.bible/word/G2476) (to st)

Occurs 209 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Luke 2:37](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/2?v=37) — and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and…
- [Luke 4:13](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/4?v=13) — When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.
- [Luke 8:13](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/8?v=13) — Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root. They believe for a…
- [Luke 13:27](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/13?v=27) — He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’
- [Acts 5:38](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/5?v=38) — Now I tell you, withdraw from these men and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be…
- [Acts 12:10](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/12?v=10) — When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened…
- [Acts 15:38](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/15?v=38) — But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and…
- [Acts 19:9](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/19?v=9) — But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and…
- [Acts 22:29](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/22?v=29) — Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he…
- [2 Corinthians 12:8](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/12?v=8) — Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.