anachoreo denotes moving away from a place or people, including private withdrawal, departure, and a command to go away.

The occurrences consistently show movement away from a place, group, or situation: Jesus withdraws to the mountain, sea, deserted place, Tyre and Sidon, Galilee, or another district, others depart on journeys, officials withdraw privately, and a crowd is told to go away. The setting may be private, prompted by danger or news, or simply directional, but the observed use remains departure or withdrawal.

1. Move away or withdraw from a place or group · dominant

   The aorist active forms describe departure to another location: in Matthew 14:13 the APB renders Jesus withdrawing by boat to a deserted place, and in Matthew 2:14 it renders departure to Egypt. In John 6:15 he withdraws alone to the mountain, while Acts 23:19 places the participle with the officer taking someone aside privately; Matthew 9:24 uses the present active plural in a command for people to go away.

   Matthew 14:13Matthew 2:14John 6:15Acts 23:19Matthew 9:24Acts 26:31

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously renders the action as “withdrew,” “left,” “departed,” and “Go away.” These are verse-level renderings rather than definitions, but each occurs in a clause involving movement away.