A Lexical Study of the Septuagint Version of the Pentateuch

It is noteworthy that in this one place where άποδραμούμαι occurs
it follows άπελεύσομαι., and may therefore have been resorted to
20 ,
for reasons of style. Clearly the normal use of σ.τιοτρεχω is as
present to άπ-ελεύσομαι, -ήλθον, as is well illustrated by Ex.
3.21, 21.7 quoted above (see also Ge. 31.13 άπελθε compared with
32.10 άπότρεχε) .
Other verbs do not seriously affect this pattern. απειμι,
like other compounds of ειμι, is of course rare in the Koine. In
the Pentateuch it appears once, in the participial form, Ex.33.8
κατενοούσαν άπιόντος Μωυσή (see above p.86 n.4.). άποιχομαι is
found occasionally, especially in the impf. So e.g. PCair.zen.
753.66 (iii B.C.); Ge. 14.12, 26.31, 28.6. αποβαίνω usually has
the senses of 'disembark' and 'turn out' (of events), and is
therefore not involved.
The changes in words for 'go away' form part of a whole
series of developments in words for 'go out, in, towards', etc.
In the present and imperfect the older compounds of έρχομαι tend
to drop out. In their place, as was noticed earlier (p.85), new
compounds of πορεύομαι generally appear, while in the other
tenses the earlier suppletives continue unchanged. In the case
of words for 'go away', however, the πορεύομαι compound is com-
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paratively uncommon. The reason is clearly that the place it
would have occupied has already been filled by άποτρέχω. There
are no examples of άποπορεύομαι in the Pentateuch (cr elsewhere
in the LXX, or in the NT).
20. For other instances of stylistic variation see above pp.71,80
n.35, and cf. Gooding, The Account of the Tabernacle 8f.
21. The examples are: X.HG 4.1.15 αυτός έπί Δασκυλείου άπεπορεύετο
('he himself set off for D.'; perhaps πορεύομαι in its sense of
'march', 'travel 1
' is intended here, and the meaning would not
have been the same if X. had written άπήειν). Arist. Oec. 1350a 33
τών στρατιωτών... πρός τούς ύπεναντίους φασκόντων άποπορεύεσθαι.
s IG 546 Β. 18 (Melitaea, iii B.C.)... και έχοντες άποπορευέσθων
βουλευτάν έ'να. Plb. 24.7.6 ό δέ Χαίρων ... τούτον άποπορευόμενον
ημέρας έκ βάλανε ίου προσπέμψας τινάς έξεκέντησεν (for no reason
that I can see LSJ give the meaning here as 'go back' 'return').
In the papyri the only example so far known is PHal. 1.177
(iii B.C.), where it occurs in the same context as άποτρέχω:
Ptolemy instructs that when soldiers leave their billets they are
not to make improper use of them, καθάπερ νύν άκούομεν γίνεσθαι,
δταν άποπορεύωνται, άπομισθούν αυτούς και άπο[....]μένους τά
οικήματα άποτρέχειν (for possible restorations see ed., and
David & van Groningen, Papyrological Primer, no.5).
Quite separate is the technical use, of machinery
(zurückfahren 1
, ed.), in Hero Aut. 6.3, 19.5.