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ἀναπτύσσω

anaptýssō · G380 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. To cause something to be unrolled (to unroll a scroll, to unroll (a book in the form of) a scroll)

    This lexeme does not occur in the New Testament text as tagged in standard critical editions.

How it’s used In 2 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

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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In the other Testament 1 word
פָּרַשׂ pâras · H6566 · to spread out
Hebrew פָּרַשׂ denotes the physical action of spreading/unrolling as a broader lexical range (spreading out materials, garments, or documents), while Greek ἀναπτύσσω specifically denotes the technical action of unrolling a scroll or volume, reflecting the more specialized book-handling terminology of the Greek literary tradition.
Word family 2 words

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

πτύσσω ptýssō · G4428 · to roll up, to make into a roll · 1×ἀναπτύσσωanaptýssō · G380
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist ἀνεπτυξα; (ἀνά — cf. the German auf equivalent toauseinander, see ἀναλύω — and…
: 1 aorist ἀνεπτυξα; (ἀνά — cf. the German auf equivalent toauseinander, see ἀναλύω — and πτύσσω to fold up, roll together); to unroll (i. e. open for reading): τό βιβλίον (as in Herodotus 1, 48 and 125), Lk 4:17 (R G T) (2 Kgs 19:14). The books of the Hebrews were rolls (מְגִלּות) fastened to (one or) two smooth rods and furnished with handles, so that they could be rolled up and unrolled; (cf. B. D. under the word ).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Rolled Up1 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