apotithemi describes setting aside harmful conduct or impediments, and in two narratives placing garments or a person somewhere.

The prevailing use concerns deliberately leaving behind falsehood, harmful speech and conduct, moral corruption, or an entangling impediment; two narrative uses concern garments being laid at someone's feet and John being put in prison.

1. Leaving behind harmful conduct or impediments · dominant

   The aorist middle forms occur with things to be removed from conduct or progress: falsehood before truthful speech in Ephesians 4:25, anger and obscene talk in Colossians 3:8, and every impediment and entangling sin before running in Hebrews 12:1. In 1 Peter 2:1 and James 1:21, the APB renders clauses about putting aside malice, deceit, slanders, filth, and excess of evil; Ephesians 4:22 similarly concerns the former way of life and the old self.

   1 Peter 2:1Colossians 3:8Ephesians 4:22Ephesians 4:25Hebrews 12:1James 1:21
2. Placing garments or a person in a location · occasional

   In Acts 7:58, the third-person aorist middle plural form occurs in the clause where the witnesses' garments are at Saul's feet; the APB renders the verse, "the witnesses laid aside their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul." In Matthew 14:3, the third-person aorist middle singular form occurs in the account of Herod's treatment of John, which the APB renders as seizing, binding, and putting him in prison.

   Acts 7:58Matthew 14:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the ethical and exhortational clauses, the APB uses "putting aside," "put away," "put off," and "lay aside." In the narrative verses it uses "laid aside" for garments and "put him in prison" for John; these are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.