Genesis 49:21
Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
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Loose
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Revelation 9:14
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
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λύω
lýō · loo'-o
14 times translated as this KJV form48 total Strong's occurrences
to "loosen" (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--break (up), destroy, dissolve, (un-)loose, melt, put off.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 16:19Strong's last: Revelation 9:14
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pâthach · paw-thakh'
7 times translated as this KJV form144 total Strong's occurrences
to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
Strong's KJV usage: appear, break forth, draw (out), let go free, (en-) grave(-n), loose (self), (be, be set) open(-ing), put off, ungird, unstop, have vent.
Strong's first: Job 38:31Strong's last: Jeremiah 40:4
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shâlach · shaw-lakh'
3 times translated as this KJV form851 total Strong's occurrences
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
Strong's KJV usage: × any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, × earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Strong's first: Genesis 49:21Strong's last: Job 30:11
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châlats · khaw-lats'
1 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences
to pull off; hence (intensively) to strip, (reflex.) to depart; by implication, to deliver, equip (for fight); present, strengthen
Strong's KJV usage: arm (self), (go, ready) armed (× man, soldier), deliver, draw out, make fat, loose, (ready) prepared, put off, take away, withdraw self.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 25:9Strong's last: Deuteronomy 25:9
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nâshal · naw-shal'
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to pluck off, i.e. divest, eject or drop
Strong's KJV usage: cast (out), drive, loose, put off (out), slip.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joshua 5:15Strong's last: Joshua 5:15
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nâthar · naw-thar'
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to jump, i.e. be violently agitated; causatively, to terrify, shake off, untie
Strong's KJV usage: drive asunder, leap, (let) loose, × make, move, undo.
Strong's first: Job 6:9Strong's last: Job 6:9
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shᵉrêʼ · sher-ay'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to free, separate; figuratively, to unravel, commence; by implication (of unloading beasts) to reside
Strong's KJV usage: begin, dissolve, dwell, loose.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 3:25Strong's last: Daniel 3:25
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H6605
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
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loose
LOOSE, verb transitive loos. [Gr.; Heb.]
1. To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening.
Canst thou loose the bands of Orion? Job 38:31.
Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them to me. Matthew 21:2.
2. To relax.
The joints of his loins were loosed. Daniel 5:6.
3. To release from imprisonment; to liberate; to set at liberty.
The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed. Isaiah 51:14.
4. To free from obligation.
Art thou loosed from a wife? see not a wife. 1 Corinthians 7:27.
5. To free from any thing that binds or shackles; as a man loosed from lust and pelf.
6. To relieve; to free from any thing burdensome or afflictive.
Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. Acts 13:13.
7. To disengage; to detach; as, to loose one's hold.
8. To put off.
LOOSE thy shoe from off thy foot. Joshua 5:15.
9. To open.
Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? Revelation 5:2.
10. To remit; to absolve.
Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. Matthew 16:19.
LOOSE, verb intransitive To set sail; to leave a port or harbor.
Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga, in Pamphylia. Acts 13:13.
LOOSE, adjective
1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not fastened or confined; as the loose sheets of a book.
2. Not tight or close; as a loose garment.
3. Not crowded; not close or compact.
With horse and chariots rank'd in loose array.
4. Not dense, close or compact; as a cloth or fossil of loose texture.
5. Not close; not concise; lax; as a loose and diffuse style.
6. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as a loose way of reasoning.
7. Not strict or rigid; as a loose observance of rites.
8. Unconnected; rambling; as a loose indigested play.
Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages.
9. Of lax bowels.
10. Unengaged; not attached or enslaved.
Their prevailing principle is, to sit as loose from pleasures, and be as moderate in the use of them as they can.
11. Disengaged; free from obligation; with from or of.
Now I stand loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thought? [Little used.]
12. Wanton; unrestrained in behavior; dissolute; unchaste; as a loose man or woman.
13. Containing unchaste language; as a loose epistle.
To break loose to escape from confinement; to gain liberty by violence.
To let loose to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty.
LOOSE, noun Freedom from restraint; liberty.
Come, give thy soul a loose
Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.
We use this word only in the phrase, give a loose The following use of it, 'he runs with an unbounded loose ' is obsolete.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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