Aperchomai is the New Testament's workhorse verb for departure — simple, physical, and frequent. Compounded from apo ('away from') and erchomai ('to come/go'), it describes the most basic human motion of leaving one place and heading to another. Jesus' parables are full of it: the sower's audience 'goes away' (Matt 13:25), the merchant 'goes' to sell everything for the pearl (Matt 13:46), and the invited guests 'go off' to their fields and businesses (Matt 22:5). In the Gospels it often carries narrative weight as a scene-transition marker: people depart, and the story moves forward. Spanish se fue and partio both capture this clean departure sense, while German weggehen preserves the prefix structure. A quieter but theologically profound secondary sense emerges in Revelation, where the verb shifts from spatial to temporal: 'the first woe has passed away' (Rev 9:12), 'the first heaven and the first earth passed away' (Rev 21:1). Here departure becomes cosmic cessation. Two rare uses round out the picture: news 'going out' into a region (Matt 4:24), and Jude's description of Sodom 'going after' strange flesh (Jude 7), where the departure-verb is paradoxically repurposed for pursuit.