ἄφες (aphes)

ἄφες is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφίημι, meaning “send away, release, let go”. It is the 2nd person singular aorist active imperative.

Found 108 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1057: λάθρῃ λᾶαν ἄφες στιβαρώτερον· οἱ δʼ ἂν ἐπʼ αὐτῷ,

New Testament, Matthew 3.15: ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτῷ Ἄφες ἄρτι, οὕτω γὰρ πρέπον ἐστὶν ἡμῖν πληρῶσαι πᾶσαν δικαιοσύνην. τότε ἀφίησιν αὐτόν.

All forms of ἀφίημι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.