ἀπογράφω: middle (present infinitive ἀπογράφεσθαι); 1 aorist infinitive ἀπογράψασθαι; (perfect passive participle ἀπογεγραμμενος; from Herodotus down); a. to write off, copy (from some pattern). b. to enter in a register or records; specifically, to enter in the public records the names of men, their property and income, to enroll (cf. ἀπογραφή, b.); middle to have oneself registered, to enroll oneself (Winer's Grammar, § 38, 3): Luk_2:1; Luk_2:3; Luk_2:5; passive οἱ ἐν οὐρανοῖς ἀπογεγράμμενοι those whose names are inscribed in the heavenly register, Heb_12:23 (the reference is to the dead already received into the heavenly city, the figure being drawn from civil communities on earth, whose citizens are enrolled in a register).

ἀπογράφω apographō 4x pr. to copy; hence, to register, enrol, Luk_2:1 ; Heb_12:23 ; mid. to procure the registration of one s name, to give in one s name for registration, Luk_2:3 ; Luk_2:5

ἀπο -γράφω , [in LXX : Jdg_8:14 , Pro_22:20 ( H3789 ), 1Es_8:30 , 3Ma_2:29 ; 3Ma_4:14 ; 3Ma_6:34 ; 3Ma_6:38 * ;] 1. to write out, copy. 2. to enrol; mid ., to enrol oneself: Luk_2:1 ( M , Pr., 162; but. v. ICC , in l ), Luk_2:3 ; Luk_2:5 ; pass ., Heb_12:23 ( v. reff, s.v. ἀπογραφή ).†

ἀπογράφομαι (~ ἀπογράφω ) [page 60] On the general subject we have included everything under the noun above. The verb is used as a vox sollennis in P Petrie II. 11 (2) .3 (mid. iii/B.C.) (= Witkowski .2 , p. 6) ἀπογέγραμμαι δὲ ἐπὶ τελώνιον τὸ οἰκόπεδον κτλ ., I have registered as subject to tax the site bringing 17½ dr. rent. So P Oxy I. 36 ii. 11 (ii/iii A.D.), where, in connexion with the payment of customs, it is laid down that ἐὰν μὲν εὑρεθῇ τ [ι ] ἕτερον ἢ ὃ ἀπεγράψατο , στερήσιμον ἔστω , if anything be discovered other than what was declared, it shall be liable to confiscation. If not, the τελώνης had to repay to the merchant the cost of unloading his ship for examination. It is usually the middle voice that is employed a fact not unconnected with the personal responsibility already noticed. But in P Ryl II. 103 .17, .20 (A.D. 134) we have ἀπεγρά (φη ), [ἀπεγ ]ρά [φ ]ησαν , as against ἀπεγράψατο (-αντο ) in other places in the document : the former simply gives the fact of the registration, which indeed in one case, that of a slave s child, was effected by the head of the family. With the use of the verb in Heb_12:23 may be compared Apoc. Pauli (ed. Tischendorf), p. 39 f. : γνῶτε , υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων , ὅτι πάντα τὰ πραττόμενα παρ᾽ ὑμῶν καθ᾽ ἡμέραν ἄγγελοι ἀπογράφονται ἐν οὐρανοῖς .

ἀπογράφω "to write off, copy: to enter in a list, register", Hdt. , Plat. :—Mid. "to have" names "registered" by others, or "to register for one's own use", Hdt. , Plat. Mid. also "to give in one's name, register", or "enlist oneself", Xen. as attic law-term, ἀπογράφειν τινά "to enter" a person's name "as accused, give in a copy of the charge" against him, "to inform against, denounce", id=Xen. "to give in a list" of property alleged to belong to the state, but held by a private person, Oratt. :—also, ἀπέγραψεν ταῦτα ἔχοντα αὐτόν "gave a written acknowledgment" that he was in possession of this property, Dem.

ἀπο-γράφω [in LXX: Jdg.8:14, Pro.22:20 (כָּתַב), I Est.8:30, 3Ma.2:29 3Mac 4:14 3Mac 6:34 3Mac 6:38 * ;] __1. to write out, copy. __2. to enrol; mid., to enrol oneself: Luk.2:1 (M, Pr., 162; but. see ICC, in l), Luk.2:3, 5; pass., Heb.12:23 (see reff, see word ἀπογραφή ).† (AS)