Job 12:18
He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
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Psalms 146:7
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
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נָתַר
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: Psalms 146:7Strong's last: Psalms 146:7
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pâthach · paw-thakh'
1 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 12:18Strong's last: Job 12:18
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Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
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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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