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ἄνεσις

ánesis · G425 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. relief

    Relief as a cessation or suspension of trouble and difficulty

    Examples

    2 Corinthians 2:13 I had no rest for my spirit, not finding Titus my brother; but saying goodbye to them, I went on to Macedonia.

    2 Corinthians 7:5 For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side: conflicts on the outside, fears inside.

    2 Corinthians 8:13 For this is not for the relief of others and for your hardship, but by way of equality—

  2. some freedom, some liberty

    A partial degree of liberty or freedom

    Examples

    Acts 24:23 He gave orders to the centurion for Paul to be kept in custody and yet have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from providing for his needs.

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

3 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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Near synonyms 1 word
κατάπαυσις katápausis · G2663 · to rest, to cease from work
Both denote cessation from labor or strain, with ἄνεσις emphasizing the active relief or loosening of tension (whether physical relaxation or figurative respite from pressure), while κατάπαυσις emphasizes the settled state of rest or repose, often with reference to a place or condition of abiding rest.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Relief22.36
In 2 Thessalonians 1:7, Paul writes of God's plan “to give relief (ánesin) to you who are afflicted, along with us, when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven,” describing an easing of present distress.
Some freedom, some liberty37.137
In Acts 24:23, the centurion is ordered to keep Paul in custody “but yet have some freedom (ánesin), and not to prevent any of his friends from providing for his needs,” describing a limited, granted latitude of movement within confinement.
Word family 2 words

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

ἀνίημι aníēmi · G447 · to loosen, to unfasten, to desert · 4×ἄνεσιςánesis · G425
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀνεσεως, ἡ (ἀνίημι to let loose, slacken, anything tense, e. g. a bow), a loosening,…
ἀνεσεως, ἡ (ἀνίημι to let loose, slacken, anything tense, e. g. a bow), a loosening, relaxing; spoken of a more tolerable condition in captivity: ἔχειν ἄνεσιν, to be held in less rigorous confinement (R. V. have indulgence), Acts 24:23 (Josephus, Antiquities 18, 6, 10 φυλακή μέν γάρ καί τήρησις ἦν, μετά μέντοι ἀνεσεως τῆς δίαιταν). relief, rest, from persecutions, 2 Thess 1:7; from the troubles of poverty, 2 Cor 8:13; relief from anxiety, quiet, 2 Cor 2:13 (); . (the Sept.; in Greek writings from Thucydides (Herodotus 5, 28) down.) (Synonym: see ἀνάπαυσις, at the end.)

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Relief from Trouble4 occurrencesRelease, Set Free1 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

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