Template:3089
3089 λύω luo [loo’-o] a root word; v; TDNT-2:60 & 4:328,543; [{See TDNT 456 }] AV-loose 27, break 5, unloose 3, destroy 2, dissolve 2, put off 1, melt 1, break up 1, break down 1; 43
- 1) to loose any person (or thing) tied or fastened
- 1a) bandages of the feet, the shoes,
- 1b) of a husband and wife joined together by the bond of matrimony
- 1c) 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
- 2a) of one bound up (swathed in bandages)
- 2b) bound with chains (a prisoner), discharge from prison, let go
- 3) to loosen, undo, dissolve, anything bound, tied, or compacted together
- 3a) an assembly, i.e. to dismiss, break up
- 3b) laws, as having a binding force, are likened to bonds
- 3c) to annul, subvert
- 3d) to do away with, to deprive of authority, whether by precept or act
- 3e) to declare unlawful
- 3f) to loose what is compacted or built together, to break up, demolish, destroy
- 3g) to dissolve something coherent into parts, to destroy
- 3h) metaph., to overthrow, to do away with