λύω

luvw luvw; imperfect
ejluon; 1 aorist
e[lusav; passive, present
luvomai; imperfect
ejluomhn; perfect 2 person singular
levlusai, participle
lelumeno"; 1 aorist
ejluqhn; 1 future
luqhvsomai; from Homer down; the Septuagint several times for jt'P;, to open, ryTihi and Chaldean arev] (; ); to loose; i. e.:1. to loose any person (or thing) tied or fastened: properly, the bandages of the feet, the shoes, ; ; ; Acts (13:25); (so for lv'n: to take off, ; );
pw'lon (
dedemevnon), ; ,(3 L marginal reading),4f; f,33; bad angels, f;
tovn
bou'n
ajpov
th'"
favtnh", ; tropically: of husband and wife joined together by the bond of matrimony,
levlusai
ajpov
gunaikov" (opposed to
devdesai
gunaikiv), spoken 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: one bound up (swathed in bandages), ; bound with chains (a prisoner), (where Rec. adds
ajpov
tw'n
desmw'n); hence, equivalent to to discharge from prison, let go, Rec. (so as far back as Homer); in Apocalyptic vision of the devil (
kekleismevnon), ;
ejk
th'"
fulakh'"
aujtou', 7; metaphorically, to free (
ajpov
desmou') from the bondage of disease (one held by Satan) by restoration to health, ; to release one bound by the chains of sin,
ejk
tw'n
aJmartiw'n, L T Tr WH (see
louvw at the end (cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 30, 6 a.)).3. to loosen, undo, dissolve, anything bound, tied, or compacted together: the seal of a book, (5 Rec.); tropically,
tovn
desmovn
th'"
glwvssh"
tivno", to remove an impediment of speech, restore speech to a dumb man, (Justin, hist. 13, 7, 1 cui nomen Battos propter linguae obligationem init; 6 linguae nodis solutis loqui primum coepit); an assembly, i. e. to dismiss, break up:
thvn
sunagwghvn, passive, (
ajgorhn, Homer, Iliad 1, 305; Odyssey 2, 257, etc.; Apoll. Rh. 1, 708;
thvn
stratiavn, Xenophon, Cyril 6, 1, 2); of the bonds of death,
luvein
tav"
wjdi'na"
tou'
qantou, (see
wjdivn). Laws, as having binding force, are likened to bonds; hence,
luvein is equivalent to to annul, subvert; to do away with; to deprive of authority, whether by precept or by act:
ejntolhvn, ;
tovn
novmon, ;
tov
savbbaton, the commandment concerning the sabbath, ;
thvn
grafhvn, ; cf. Kuinoel on ; (on the singular reading
luvei
tovn
!Ihsou', WH marginal reading see Westcott's Commentary at the passage); by a Chaldean and Talmudic usage (equivalent to rTea', arev] (cf. Winer's Grammar, 32)), opposed to
devw (which see 2 c.), to declare lawful: ; (but cf. Weiss in Meyer 7te Aufl. ad the passages cited). to loose what is compacted or built together, to break up, demolish,