G2647
καταλύω
kataluo
kat-al-oo'-o
Verb
from G2596 and G3089; to loosen down (disintegrate), i.e. (by implication) to demolish (literally or figuratively); specially (compare G2646) to halt for the night:--destroy, dissolve, be guest, lodge, come to nought, overthrow, throw down.
- to dissolve, disunite
- (what has been joined together), to destroy, demolish
- metaph. to overthrow i.e. render vain, deprive of success, bring to naught
- to subvert, overthrow 1b
- of institutions, forms of government, laws, etc., to deprive of force, annul, abrogate, discard
- of travellers, to halt on a journey, to put up, lodge (the figurative expression originating in the circumstance that, to put up for the night, the straps and packs of the beasts of burden are unbound and taken off; or, more correctly from the fact that the traveller's garments, tied up when he is on the journey, are unloosed at it end)
Strong's Number G2647 Bible Verses
G3089
λύω
luo
loo'-o
Verb
a primary verb; to "loosen" (literally or figuratively):--break (up), destroy, dissolve, (un-)loose, melt, put off. Compare G4486.
- to loose any person (or thing) tied or fastened
- bandages of the feet, the shoes,
- of a husband and wife joined together by the bond of matrimony
- of a single man, 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
- of one bound up (swathed in bandages)
- bound with chains (a prisoner), discharge from prison, let go
- to loosen, undo, dissolve, anything bound, tied, or compacted together
- an assembly, i.e. to dismiss, break up
- laws, as having a binding force, are likened to bonds
- to annul, subvert
- to do away with, to deprive of authority, whether by precept or act
- to declare unlawful
- to loose what is compacted or built together, to break up, demolish, destroy
- to dissolve something coherent into parts, to destroy
- metaph., to overthrow, to do away with
Strong's Number G3089 Bible Verses
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