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ἀπολογέομαι
How the KJV Renders It
TranslationStrong’s lists the renderings but not their weight. These are counted from the King James text of the tagged verses — the bar under each is how often the translators actually reached for it. Select one to filter the occurrences below.
Grammatical Forms
MorphologyIn the Greek New Testament, this word appears as a verb across 10 occurrences, inflected in 8 grammatical forms — each row is one form, and the bar is how often it is that form. Select any form to read what each part of its name means, and to filter the occurrence list to it.
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ἀπολογεῖσθαι
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Middle Or Passive
- Can be read as middle or passive; context decides.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
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ἀπολογουμένου
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Middle Or Passive
- Can be read as middle or passive; context decides.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Genitive
- Possession or source — often "of".
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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ἀπολογήσησθε
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Middle Deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Subjunctive
- Possibility or purpose — "might", "should".
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ἀπολογηθῆναι·
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Passive Deponent
- Passive in form but active in meaning.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
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ἀπελογεῖτο·
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- Middle Or Passive
- Can be read as middle or passive; context decides.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
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ἀπολογούμεθα
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Middle Or Passive
- Can be read as middle or passive; context decides.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ἀπολογοῦμαι·
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Middle Or Passive
- Can be read as middle or passive; context decides.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
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ἀπολογουμένων
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Middle Or Passive
- Can be read as middle or passive; context decides.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Genitive
- Possession or source — often "of".
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
Biblical Distribution
DistributionAppears in 10 verses across 4 of the 27 books. Most frequent in Acts (6 verses); never once in the other 23.
Every Occurrence
ConcordanceEvery verse where the word is tagged in the King James text. Filter by book, by the English word the translators chose, by grammatical form, or search within the verses.
Sources. Definition and numbering: James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890). Morphology: STEPBible / Tyndale House (CC BY). Verse tagging: the King James text keyed to Strong’s numbers. Every count on this page is computed from the tagged corpus, not estimated.