Strong G306ἀναβάλλω
to defer
- Transliteration
- anaballomai
- Pronunciation
- an-ab-al'-lom-ahee
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
ἀνα-βάλλω
[in LXX: Psa.78:21 89:38 (עָבַר), 1Ki.28:14, Psa.104:2 (עָטָה);]
to defer, put off (MM, VGT, see word): mid., Act.24:22.†
(AS)
[in LXX: Psa.78:21 89:38 (עָבַר), 1Ki.28:14, Psa.104:2 (עָטָה);]
to defer, put off (MM, VGT, see word): mid., Act.24:22.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G306 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- defer1
First verses
- Acts 24:22And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀναβάλλω,
throw up, χοῦν ἐξ ὀρύγματος[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.90, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.10, “Ostr.” 1399 (1st c.AD))]; τάφρος ἀναβεβλημένη foss and dyke, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.2.5.)]
2 ἀ. τινὰ ἐπὶ τὸν ἵππον put on horseback, mount him, [Refs ([prev. author] “An.” 4.4.4, “Eq.” 6.12)]; of the horse, ἀ. τὸν ἀναβάτην unseat his rider, [Refs ([prev. work] 8.7.)]
3 ἀ. τὰ ὄμματα cast up one's eyes, so as to show the whites, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 876a31; τὰ λευκά 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 222.9, 5th-6th c.BC: Ctesias Historicus “fragment” 20.)]
4 cause to spring up, κρήνην[Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.6.2.)]
5 lay bricks, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 2587.59, compare 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Fragmenta” 103.)]
6 lift, remove a tumour, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Antyllus Medicus (?)cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 45.17.6.)]
7 passive, to be lifted up, in prayer, εὔχονται σπλάγχνοισι κακῶς ἀναβαλλομένοισι[Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Aristeas Epicus 1.)]
II put back, put off, μηκέτι νῦν ἀνάβαλλε.. ἄεθλον[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.584)] (the only place in which [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses the _active_))]; ἀ. τινά put off [with excuses], [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.52; ἀ. τὰ πράγματα 4.14)]; distract one's attention, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.24:)] —passive, ἀνεβλήθη ἡ ἐκκλησία it was adjourned, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.45)]; ὥστε.. εἰς τοὺς παῖδας ἀναβληθήσεσθαι τὰς τιμωρίας will be put off to the time of the sons, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.25; ὑμεναίους οὐκ ἀναβαλλομένους 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Aetia” 3.1.43; compare below 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11.)]
II.2 perfect participle passive ἀναβεβλημένος slow, measured, αὔλημα[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 1.1, compare 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 2.8)]: so in adverb -μένως slowly, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 54.)]
II.2.b of style, diffuse, τὸ ὕπτιον καὶ ἀ.[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ ἰδεῶν” 2.11)]; λέξις ἀ., opposed to συνεστραμμένη, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “τέχναι ῥητορικαί” 2p.540S.)]
III like [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 111)], put on, ἀ. τὸ Κρητικόν (a short cloak) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 311 (assuming variant).)]
IV run a risk (probably metaphorically from dice), ἐγώ σφε θάψω κἀνὰ κίνδυνον βαλῶ[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1033.)]
B more frequently in middle, strike up, begin to play or sing [Refs 8th c.BC+ (compare (ἀναβολή 11), ἀναβάλλετο καλὸν ἀείδειν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.155, 8.266, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 6.20: _absolutely_, ἀναβάλεο 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.77; ἀναβαλοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1269: with _accusative_, εὐχὴν ἀ. τῷ Ἔρωτι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 1.29.)]
B.II put off, delay a thing in which oneself is concerned[Refs 8th c.BC+ ((see. above 11), μηδ᾽ ἔτι δηρὸν ἀμβαλλώμεθα ἔργον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.436, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 410, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.80, “N.” 9.29, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.85; τὸ μέν τι νυνὶ μὴ λάβῃς, τὸ δ᾽ ἀναβαλοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1139; εἰσαῦθις ἀναβεβλήμεθα “Ec.” 983)]; εἰς τὴν ὑστεραίαν ἀναβαλέσθαι [τὴν δίαιταν] to adjourn till the morrow, [NT+5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.84, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 234b; ἀ. τινας NT.Act.24.22)]: absolutely, defer payment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.33)]: with future infinitive, ἀ. κυρώσειν ἐς τέταρτον μῆνα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.86. ; ἀ. ἐς τρίτην ἡμέρην ἀποκρινέεσθαι 5.49; ἀ. ποιήσειν τὰ δέοντα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.9)]: with aorist infinitive, ἀ. ὑποκρίνασθαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.8; οὐκέτι ἀνεβάλλοντο μὴ τὸ πᾶν οὐ μηχανήσασθαι 6.88.)]
B.II.2 throw off oneself on another, refer a thing to him, τὶ ἐπί τινα[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pisc.” 15.)]
B.III throw one's cloak up or back, throw it over the shoulder, so as to let it hang in folds, ἀναβάλλεσθαι χλαῖναν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1132: so also ἀναβάλλεσθαι alone, [prev. author] “Ec.” 97; ἀ. ἐπιδέξια 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 175e, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1568)]; εἴσω τὴν χεῖρα ἔχοντα ἀναβεβλημένον with one's cloak thrown up or back, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.251; ἀναβεβλ. ἄνω τοῦ γόνατος 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 4.4; compare ἀναβολή 1.2.)]
B.IV = above [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus IV, ἀναβάλλεσθαι μάχας)] risk battles, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.49.)]
B.V to be wroth, [LXX (LXX.Psa.77(78).21.)]
throw up, χοῦν ἐξ ὀρύγματος[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.90, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.10, “Ostr.” 1399 (1st c.AD))]; τάφρος ἀναβεβλημένη foss and dyke, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.2.5.)]
2 ἀ. τινὰ ἐπὶ τὸν ἵππον put on horseback, mount him, [Refs ([prev. author] “An.” 4.4.4, “Eq.” 6.12)]; of the horse, ἀ. τὸν ἀναβάτην unseat his rider, [Refs ([prev. work] 8.7.)]
3 ἀ. τὰ ὄμματα cast up one's eyes, so as to show the whites, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 876a31; τὰ λευκά 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 222.9, 5th-6th c.BC: Ctesias Historicus “fragment” 20.)]
4 cause to spring up, κρήνην[Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.6.2.)]
5 lay bricks, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 2587.59, compare 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Fragmenta” 103.)]
6 lift, remove a tumour, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Antyllus Medicus (?)cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 45.17.6.)]
7 passive, to be lifted up, in prayer, εὔχονται σπλάγχνοισι κακῶς ἀναβαλλομένοισι[Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Aristeas Epicus 1.)]
II put back, put off, μηκέτι νῦν ἀνάβαλλε.. ἄεθλον[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.584)] (the only place in which [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses the _active_))]; ἀ. τινά put off [with excuses], [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.52; ἀ. τὰ πράγματα 4.14)]; distract one's attention, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.24:)] —passive, ἀνεβλήθη ἡ ἐκκλησία it was adjourned, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.45)]; ὥστε.. εἰς τοὺς παῖδας ἀναβληθήσεσθαι τὰς τιμωρίας will be put off to the time of the sons, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.25; ὑμεναίους οὐκ ἀναβαλλομένους 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Aetia” 3.1.43; compare below 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11.)]
II.2 perfect participle passive ἀναβεβλημένος slow, measured, αὔλημα[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 1.1, compare 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 2.8)]: so in adverb -μένως slowly, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 54.)]
II.2.b of style, diffuse, τὸ ὕπτιον καὶ ἀ.[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ ἰδεῶν” 2.11)]; λέξις ἀ., opposed to συνεστραμμένη, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “τέχναι ῥητορικαί” 2p.540S.)]
III like [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 111)], put on, ἀ. τὸ Κρητικόν (a short cloak) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 311 (assuming variant).)]
IV run a risk (probably metaphorically from dice), ἐγώ σφε θάψω κἀνὰ κίνδυνον βαλῶ[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1033.)]
B more frequently in middle, strike up, begin to play or sing [Refs 8th c.BC+ (compare (ἀναβολή 11), ἀναβάλλετο καλὸν ἀείδειν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.155, 8.266, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 6.20: _absolutely_, ἀναβάλεο 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.77; ἀναβαλοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1269: with _accusative_, εὐχὴν ἀ. τῷ Ἔρωτι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 1.29.)]
B.II put off, delay a thing in which oneself is concerned[Refs 8th c.BC+ ((see. above 11), μηδ᾽ ἔτι δηρὸν ἀμβαλλώμεθα ἔργον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.436, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 410, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.80, “N.” 9.29, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.85; τὸ μέν τι νυνὶ μὴ λάβῃς, τὸ δ᾽ ἀναβαλοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1139; εἰσαῦθις ἀναβεβλήμεθα “Ec.” 983)]; εἰς τὴν ὑστεραίαν ἀναβαλέσθαι [τὴν δίαιταν] to adjourn till the morrow, [NT+5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.84, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 234b; ἀ. τινας NT.Act.24.22)]: absolutely, defer payment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.33)]: with future infinitive, ἀ. κυρώσειν ἐς τέταρτον μῆνα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.86. ; ἀ. ἐς τρίτην ἡμέρην ἀποκρινέεσθαι 5.49; ἀ. ποιήσειν τὰ δέοντα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.9)]: with aorist infinitive, ἀ. ὑποκρίνασθαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.8; οὐκέτι ἀνεβάλλοντο μὴ τὸ πᾶν οὐ μηχανήσασθαι 6.88.)]
B.II.2 throw off oneself on another, refer a thing to him, τὶ ἐπί τινα[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pisc.” 15.)]
B.III throw one's cloak up or back, throw it over the shoulder, so as to let it hang in folds, ἀναβάλλεσθαι χλαῖναν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1132: so also ἀναβάλλεσθαι alone, [prev. author] “Ec.” 97; ἀ. ἐπιδέξια 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 175e, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1568)]; εἴσω τὴν χεῖρα ἔχοντα ἀναβεβλημένον with one's cloak thrown up or back, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.251; ἀναβεβλ. ἄνω τοῦ γόνατος 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 4.4; compare ἀναβολή 1.2.)]
B.IV = above [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus IV, ἀναβάλλεσθαι μάχας)] risk battles, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.49.)]
B.V to be wroth, [LXX (LXX.Psa.77(78).21.)]