Quick Definition
I drive away
Strong's Definition
to dismiss
Derivation: from G575 (ἀπό) and G1643 (ἐλαύνω);
KJV Usage: drive
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀπελαύνω: 1 aorist ἀπήλασα; to drive away, drive off: Act_18:16. (common in Greek writings.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀπελαύνω apelaunō 1x
to drive away, Act_18:16
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀπ -ελαύνω ,
[in LXX for H5337 , H7971 ;]
to drive away: Act_18:16 ( MM , s.v. ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀπελαύνω [page 56]
P Giss I. 70 .7 (Hadrian) ἀπέλα̣[σ ]α τὸ πλοῖον περὶ ὥραν ἐνάτην , I caused the boat to sail about the ninth hour. P Tor I. 1 iii. 32 (B.C. 116) (= Chrest. II. p. 33) καὶ κατὰ μὲν τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον φήσας ἀπελαύνεσθαι αὐτοὺς τῆς κρατήσεως τῆς οἰκίας . P Par 37 .17 ἀπελάσαντό με , with mid. for act. : note the dropped augment in the two aorist forms cited here. BGU III. 759 .18 (A.D. 125) ἀπήλασαν αἶγας τρεῖς (of robbers), P Lips I. 37 .28 (A.D. 389) ζῶα ἀπελακότας ( sc. ἀπεληλ .) πολλάκις .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀπελαύνω [Etym: ἀπελάω] "to drive away, expel from" a place, τινὰ δόμων, πόλεως, Eur. , etc.; ἀπὸ τόπου Xen. : ἀπ. τινά "to drive away, banish, expel", Soph. , Xen. ἀπ. στρατιήν "to lead away" an army, Hdt. : then absol. "to march or go away, depart", id=Hdt. ; (sub. ἵππον) "to ride away", Xen. Pass. "to be driven away", Hdt. , attic:— "to be excluded from" a thing, Hdt. , etc.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀπ-ελαύνω
[in LXX for נָצַל, שָׁלַח ;]
to drive away: Act.18:16 (MM, see word).†
(AS)