By Gaylon West.



Thayer's Greek Definitions:
G863 (leave) aphiemi from G575 and hiemi (to send, an intens. form of eimi^G1510, to go)
1) to send away
    1a) to bid going away or depart
           1a1) of a husband divorcing his wife
     1b) to send forth, yield up, to expire
     1c) to let go, let alone, let be
            1c1) to disregard
            1c2) to leave, not to discuss now, (a topic)
                  1c2a) of teachers, writers and speakers
            1c3) to omit, neglect
      1d) to let go, give up a debt, forgive, to remit
      1e) to give up, keep no longer
2) to permit, allow, not to hinder, to give up a thing to a person
3) to leave, go way from one
      3a) in order to go to another place
      3b) to depart from any one
      3c) to depart from one and leave him to himself so that all mutual claims are abandoned
      3d) to desert wrongfully
      3e) to go away leaving something behind
      3f) to leave one by not taking him as a companion
      3g) to leave on dying, leave behind one
      3h) to leave so that what is left may remain, leave remaining
      3i) abandon, leave destitute

Strong's Greek Dictionaries
G575: apo ("away from") and hiemi (to send; an intensive form (to go)); to send forth, in various applications: - to leave alone; (a) I send away, (b) I let go, release, permit to depart, (c) I remit, forgive, (d) I permit, suffer.
Total KJV occurrences: 147

G859 (aphesis) From G863; Means "freedom; (figuratively) pardon: - deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission." Total KJV occurrences: 17

Used in English: "aphesis."
apheresis (n.) also aphaeresis, coined for "suppression of a vowel or syllable at the beginning of a word," 1610s, from Latin aphaeresis, a grammarians' use of Greek aphairesis "a taking away," from aphairein "to take away," from assimilated form of apo "from, off" + hairein "to take" (cf. heresy).

compare: Apheretic
aphetic (adj.) 1880, "suggested by the Editor" (OED editor Sir James A.H. Murray (1837-1915)) for "gradual and unintentional loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word" [OED], as squire from esquire, venture from adventure. With -ic + aphesis (1880), from Greek aphienai "to let go, to send forth," from assimilated form of apo means "away from" + hienai "to send" (cf. jet (v.)).

compare jet (v.1)
(cognates: Greek iemi, ienai "to send, throw " ).