to depart
Metabaino denotes leaving or moving from one place to another, and in two verses marks passage from death into life.
The prevailing use concerns physical departure or movement from a place, house, region, or location to another. It also marks a stated passage from death into life and, in John 13:1, departure from the world to the Father.
Senses in use
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Leaving or moving to another location · dominant
In Acts 18:7, the aorist participle occurs as the man leaves and enters a house next to the synagogue; Matthew 12:9 and Matthew 15:29 likewise place the participle before movement to the synagogue or beside the sea of Galilee. John 7:3 and Matthew 8:34 use an aorist form in requests to leave a place, while Luke 10:7 prohibits moving from house to house and Matthew 17:20 concerns a mountain moving from one place to another.
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Passage from death into life · occasional
In John 5:24, the perfect indicative stands in the contrast between not coming into judgment and having passed from death to life. In 1 John 3:14, the first-person perfect occurs in the statement that passage out of death into life is known because of love for the brothers.
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Departure from the world to the Father · rare
In John 13:1, the aorist subjunctive occurs in the statement that Jesus' hour had come for departure out of this world to the Father.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the physical contexts with departure or movement language and presents John 5:24 and 1 John 3:14 as passage from death to life. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, its varied English wording does not by itself define the term.