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|txtha=[[imperfect]] ἐλυον; 1st aorist ἔλυσά; [[passive]], [[present]] λύομαι; [[imperfect]] ἐλυομην; [[perfect]] 2nd [[person]] [[singular]] λέλυσαι, participle λελυμενος; 1st aorist ἐλυθην; 1future λυθήσομαι; from [[Homer]] [[down]]; the Sept. [[several]] times for פָּתַח, to [[open]], הִתִּיר and Chaldean שְׁרֵא (to [[loose]]; i. e.:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to [[loose]] [[any]] [[person]] (or [[thing]]) tied or fastened: [[properly]], the bandages of the feet, the shoes, נָשַׁל to [[take]] [[off]], πῶλον (δεδεμένον), L marginal [[reading]]),[[τόν]] βοῦν [[ἀπό]] τῆς φάτνης, λέλυσαι [[ἀπό]] γυναικός (opposed to δέδεσαι γυναικί), [[spoken]] of a [[single]] Prayer of Manasseh , [[whether]] he has [[already]] had a [[wife]] or has [[not]] [[yet]] married, to [[loose]] [[one]] [[bound]], i. e. to [[unbind]], [[release]] from bonds, [[set]] [[free]]: [[one]] [[bound]] up (swathed in bandages), adds [[ἀπό]] [[τῶν]] δεσμῶν); [[hence]], equivalent to to [[discharge]] from [[prison]], [[let]] go, (so as [[far]] [[back]] as [[Homer]]); in Apocalyptic [[vision]] of the [[devil]] (κεκλεισμένον), ἐκ τῆς φυλακῆς [[αὐτοῦ]], 7; [[metaphorically]], to [[free]] ([[ἀπό]] δεσμοῦ) from the [[bondage]] of [[disease]] ([[one]] held by Satan) by [[restoration]] to [[health]], ἐκ [[τῶν]] ἁμαρτιῶν, L T Tr WH ([[see]] [[λούω]] at the [[end]] (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30,6a.)).<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to [[loosen]], [[undo]], [[dissolve]], [[anything]] [[bound]], tied, or compacted [[together]]: the [[seal]] of a [[book]], ); tropically, [[τόν]] [[δεσμόν]] τῆς γλώσσης τίνος, to [[remove]] an [[impediment]] of [[speech]], [[restore]] [[speech]] to a [[dumb]] Prayer of Manasseh , Justin, hist. 13,7, 1cui nomen Battos propter linguae obligationem init; 6 linguae nodis solutis loqui primum coepit); an [[assembly]], i. e. to [[dismiss]], [[break]] up: [[τήν]] συναγωγήν, [[passive]], ἀγορην, [[Homer]], Iliad 1,305; [[Odyssey]] 2,257, etc.; Apoll. Rh. 1,708; [[τήν]] στρατιάν, [[Xenophon]], Cyril 6,1, 2); of the bonds of [[death]], λύειν τάς ὠδῖνας [[τοῦ]] θαντου, [[ὠδίν]]). Laws, as having [[binding]] [[force]], are likened to bonds; [[hence]], λύειν is equivalent to to [[annul]], [[subvert]]; to do [[away]] [[with]]; to [[deprive]] of [[authority]], [[whether]] by [[precept]] or by [[act]]: ἐντολήν, [[τόν]] νόμον, τό [[σάββατον]], the commandment [[concerning]] the sabbath, [[τήν]] γραφήν, λύει [[τόν]] Ἰησοῦ, WH marginal [[reading]] [[see]] Westcott's Commentary at the [[passage]]); by a Chaldean and Talmudic [[usage]] (equivalent to אַתֵּר, שְׁרֵא (cf. Winer's Grammar, 32)), opposed to [[δέω]] ([[which]] [[see]] 2c.), to [[declare]] [[lawful]]: to [[break]] up, [[demolish]], [[destroy]]: [[properly]], in [[passive]] ἐλύετο ἡ [[πρύμνα]], [[was]] breaking to pieces, [[τόν]] ναόν, τό [[μεσότοιχον]] [[τοῦ]] φραγμοῦ, τά τείχη, 1Esdr. 1:52; γέφυραν, [[Xenophon]], an. 2,4, 17f); to [[dissolve]] [[something]] [[coherent]] [[into]] parts, to [[destroy]]: [[passive]] ([[τούτων]] πάντων λυομένων, τά στοιχεῖα (καυσούμενα), οὐρανοί (πυρούμενοι), to [[overthrow]], do [[away]] [[with]]: τά ἔργα [[τοῦ]] διαβόλου, [[ἀναλύω]], [[ἀπολύω]], [[διαλύω]], [[ἐκλύω]], [[ἐπιλύω]], [[καταλύω]], πυραλύω.)  

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