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ἀνανήφω

ananḗphō · G366 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to return to one’s right senses, to come back to one’s senses

    To return to a proper state of mind

    Examples

    2 Timothy 2:26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
To return to one’s right senses, to come back to one’s senses30.27
In 2 Timothy 2:26, Paul hopes that those opposing the truth “may come to their senses (ananḗpsōsin) and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him,” describing a recovery of sound thinking.
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

νήφω nḗphō · G3525 · to be sober-minded, to be well composed in mind, to be self-controlled · 6×νηφάλεος nēpháleos · G3524 · sober, restrained · 3×ἀνανήφωananḗphō · G366ἐκνήφω eknḗphō · G1594 · to come to one’s right senses, to change to a proper state of mind · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : (`in good authors apparently confined to the present'; 1 aorist ἀνενηψα); to return to…
: (`in good authors apparently confined to the present'; 1 aorist ἀνενηψα); to return to soberness (ἐκ μέθης, which is added by Greek writers); metaphorically: 2 Tim 2:26 ἐκ τῆς τοῦ διαβόλου παγίδος (Winers Grammar, § 66, 2 d.) to be set free from the snare of the devil and to return to a sound mind (`one's sober senses'). (Philo, legg. alleg. ii. § 16 ἀνανηφει, τουτ' ἐστι μετανόει; add Josephus, Antiquities 6, 11, 10; Cebes () tab. 9; Antoninus 6, 31; Chariton 5, 1.) (See ἀγρυπνέω, at the end.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
To Think, Thought1 occurrence

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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