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The New Testament Greek Lexicon

 Strong's Number:  3089 encodedOriginalWord
Original WordWord Origin
 λύω  a root word
Transliterated WordPhonetic Spelling
 lyō loo'-o
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Parts of SpeechTDNT
 Verb 2:60 & 4:328,543
 Definition
 
  1. to loose any person (or thing) tied or fastened
    1. bandages of the feet, the shoes,
    2. of a husband and wife joined together by the bond of matrimony
    3. of a single man, whether he has already had a wife or has not yet married
  2. to loose one bound, i.e. to unbind, release from bonds, set free
    1. of one bound up (swathed in bandages)
    2. bound with chains (a prisoner), discharge from prison, let go
  3. to loosen, undo, dissolve, anything bound, tied, or compacted together
    1. an assembly, i.e. to dismiss, break up
    2. laws, as having a binding force, are likened to bonds
    3. to annul, subvert
    4. to do away with, to deprive of authority, whether by precept or act
    5. to declare unlawful
    6. to loose what is compacted or built together, to break up, demolish, destroy
    7. to dissolve something coherent into parts, to destroy
    8. metaph., to overthrow, to do away with
 Translated Words
 KJV (43) - break, 5; break down, 1; break up, 1; destroy, 2; dissolve, 2; loose, 27; melt, 1; put off, 1; unloose, 3;

NAS (42) - annuls, 1; break, 1; breaking, 1; broke down, 1; broken, 4; destroy, 2; destroyed, 3; loose, 2; loosed, 2; putting an end to, 1; release, 1; released, 7; removed, 1; take off, 1; unbind, 1; untie, 8; untied, 1; untying, 4;

 Verse Count
KJVNAS
 
Matthew4
Mark5
Luke6
John6
Acts7
1 Corinthians1
Ephesians1
2 Peter3
1 John1
Revelation6
 
Matthew4
Mark5
Luke6
John6
Acts6
1 Corinthians1
Ephesians1
2 Peter3
1 John1
Revelation6
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Abbreviations Legend:
TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament;

Copyright Statement
The New Testament Greek Lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others; this is keyed to the large Kittel and the "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament." These files are public domain.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries. Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. http://www.lockman.org/.

Bibliography Information
Thayer and Smith. "Greek Lexicon entry for Luo". "The New Testament Greek Lexicon".
<http://www.searchgodsword.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=3089>.  

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