ἀναλύω
analýō · G360 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to move back, to return
To move back to a point or area from which one has previously departed, but with more explicit emphasis upon the return (compare ὑποστρέφω (hypostréphō, G5290), sense 1)
ExamplesLuke 12:36 “You are also to be like people who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door for him when he comes and knocks.
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to leave this life, to die, death, departure
(A figurative extension of meaning of ἀναλύω to depart, not occurring in the NT) To depart from life, as a euphemistic expression for death
ExamplesPhilippians 1:23 But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better;
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκfrom+ γάμοςwedding, marriage 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πότεwhen? 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- To move back, to return15.89
- In Luke 12:36, believers are to be like servants “waiting for their master when he returns (analýsē) from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door for him,” describing coming back from a place.
- To leave this life, to die, death, departure23.101
- In Philippians 1:23, Paul writes that he is torn “having the desire to depart (analỹsai) and be with Christ, for that is very much better,” using the word for departing this life through death.
Word family 23 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : future ἀναλύσω; 1 aorist ἀνέλυσα; 1. to unloose, undo again (as, woven threads). 2. to…
1. to unloose, undo again (as, woven threads).
2. to depart, German aufbrechen, break up (see ἀνάλυσις, 2), so very often in Greek writings; to depart from life: Phm 1:23 (Lucian, Philops c. 14 ὀκτωκαιδεκαέτης ὤν ἀνελυεν; add Aelian v. h. 4, 23; (ἀνέλυσεν ὁ ἐπίσκοπος Πλάτων ἐν κυρίῳ, Acta et mart. Matth. § 31)). to return, ἐκ τῶν γάμων, Lk 12:36 (Buttmann, 145 (127); for examples) cf. Kuinoel (and Wetstein) at the passage; Grimm on 2 Macc. 8:25.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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