λῦσαι

Detailed Definition

• 1an assembly, i.e., to dismiss, break up
• 2to loose any person (or thing) tied or fastened
• 3bandages of the feet, the shoes,
• 4of one bound up (swathed in bandages)
• 5bound with chains (a prisoner), discharge from prison, let go
• 6of a husband and wife joined together by the bond of matrimony
• 7laws, as having a binding force, are likened to bonds
• 8to annul, subvert
• 9of a single man, whether he has already had a wife or has not yet married
• 10to loose one bound, i.e., to unbind, release from bonds, set free
• 11to do away with, to deprive of authority, whether by precept or act
• 12to declare unlawful
• 13to loosen, undo, dissolve, anything bound, tied, or compacted together
• 14to loose what is compacted or built together, to break up, demolish, destroy
• 15to dissolve something coherent into parts, to destroy
• 16metaphorically, to overthrow, to do away with