Strong G447ἀνίημι
to loosen/leave
- Transliteration
- aniēmi
- Pronunciation
- an-ee'-ay-mee
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From G303 and ἵημι hiēmi (to send); to let up that is (literally) slacken or (figuratively) desert desist from: - forbear leave loose.
Detailed definition
ἀν-ίημι
(ἀνά, ἵημι), [in LXX for רָפָה, נָשָׂא, etc.;]
1. to send up, produce, to send back.
2. to let go, leave without support: Heb.13:5 (cf. Deu.31:6; Hom., Iliad., ii, 71).
3. to relax, loosen (see Field, Notes, 124 f.): Act.16:26 27:40; hence, metaphorically, to give up, desist from: Eph.6:9.†
(AS)
(ἀνά, ἵημι), [in LXX for רָפָה, נָשָׂא, etc.;]
1. to send up, produce, to send back.
2. to let go, leave without support: Heb.13:5 (cf. Deu.31:6; Hom., Iliad., ii, 71).
3. to relax, loosen (see Field, Notes, 124 f.): Act.16:26 27:40; hence, metaphorically, to give up, desist from: Eph.6:9.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G447 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- loose2
- forbear1
- leave1
- will1
First verses
- Acts 16:26And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.
- Acts 27:40And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
- Ephesians 6:9And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
- Hebrews 13:5Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
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Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀνίημι, ης
(ἀνιεῖς, as if from ἀνιέω, uncertain in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.880))], ησι: imperfect ἀνίην, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and _Attic dialect_ 2)] and 3rd.pers.singular εις, ει, Ionic dialect 3rd.pers.singular ἀνίη[Refs 8th c.BC+ (“SIG” 1 (Abu Simbel, 6th c.BC, Iterat. ἀνίεσκε 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 157; also ἠνίει 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 7.46)]; 1st pers.singular ἀνίειν[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cat.” 4:)]future ἀνήσω: perfect ἀνεῖκα: aorist 1 ἀνῆκ; Ionic dialect ἀνέηκα.:—the Homeric forms ἀνέσει[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.265)], aorist optative ἀνέσαιμι[Refs (14.209)], participle ἀνέσαντες[Refs 8th c.BC+ (13.657 should be referred to ἀνέζω, but ἄνεσαν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.537 is from ἀνίημι)]: aorist 2, 3rd.pers.plural ἀνεῖσαν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.32, _imperative_ ἄνες 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 489, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1101, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 442)], subjunctive ἀνῇς[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 183)], Epic dialect 3rd.pers.singular subjunctive ἀνήη[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.34, _optative_ ἀνείη,)]infinitive ἀνεῖναι, participle ἀνείς:—passive, ἀνίεμαι: perfect ἀνεῖμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.65, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 413)], 3rd.pers.plural perfect ἀνέωνται[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.165 (variant{ἀνέονται}),)]infinitive ἀνἑῶσθαι (sic) [Refs (“Tab.Heracl.” 1.153)]: aorist participle ἀνεθείς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 41c e)]: future ἀνεθήσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.63. [ἀνῐ- _Epic dialect_, ἀνῑ-)] Attic dialect: but even [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has ἀνῑει, ἀνῑέμενος, and we find ἀνῐησιν in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 153 (_anapaest meter_))].]: —send up or forth, Ζεφύροιο.. ἀήτας Ὠκεανὸς ἀνίησιν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.568)]; of Charybdis, τρὶς μὲν γάρ τ᾽ ἀνίησιν.. τρὶς δ᾽ ἀναροιβδεῖ[Refs (12.105; ἀφρὸν ἀ.)]spew up, vomit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 183; σταγόνας [αἵματος] ἀ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1277)]; of the earth, καρπὸν ἀ. make corn or fruit spring up, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (Hymnus in Cererem 333; κνώδαλα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 266)]; also of the gods, ἀ. ἄροτον γῆς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 270, etc.)]; so of females, produce, [Refs ([prev. work] 1405)]:—in passive, σπαρτῶν ἀπ᾽ ἀνδρῶν ῥίζωμ᾽ ἀνεῖται[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 413)]: then in various relations, συὸς χρῆμα ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 401; κρήνην 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 766)]; of a forest, πῦρ καὶ φλόγα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.77; πνεῦμ᾽ ἀνεὶς ἐκ πνευμόνων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 277)]:—send up from the grave or nether world, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 650, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1462, 5th c.BC: Phrynichus Comicus 1 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 403e, etc.:)] — passive, ἐκ γῆς κάτωθεν ἀνίεται ὁ πλοῦτος[Refs ([prev. passage])]; of fruit, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 5.1.5.)]
2 let come up, give access to, τινά[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.11; εἰς τὸ πεδίον [prev. work] 7.2.12.)]
II let go, from [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus downwards a very common sense, ἐμὲ δὲ γλυκὺς ὕπνος ἀνῆκεν,)] i.e. left me, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.71, etc., compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 310d)]: —passive, ἀνίεσθαι wake up, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.56)]; set free, ἐκ στέγης ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1101)]; let go unpunished, ἄνδρα τὴν ὀλιγαρχίαν λυμαινόμενον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.51, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.93)]; ἄνετέ μ᾽ ἄνετε leave me alone, forbear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 229 (Lyric poetry))]; of a state of mind, ἐμὲ δ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὣς θυμὸν ἀνίει.. ὀδύνη[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.24; ὅταν μ᾽ ἀνῇ νόσος μανίας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 227; ὥς μιν ὁ οἶνος ἀνῆκε 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.213, etc.)]; ἀ. ἵππον to let him go (by slackening the rein), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 721; ἵππους εἰς τάχος ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 3.2; τῷ δήμῳ τὰς ἡνίας ἀ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 11.)]
II.b loosen, unfasten, δεσμόν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.359 (variant{δεσμῶν}); δεσμά τ᾽ ἀνεῖσαι 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hecale” 1.2.13)]: hence, open, πύλας ἄνεσαν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.537; ἀ. θύρετρα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 448)]; ἀ. σήμαντρα break the seal, [Refs ([prev. author] “IA” 325)]:—passive, πύλαι ἀνειμέναι[Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 10.14.)]
II.2 ἀ. τινί let loose at one, slip at, ἀ. τὰς κύνας[Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 7.7: hence ἄφρονα τοῦτον ἀνέντες 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.761, compare 880: with _accusative_ et)]infinitive, Διομήδεα μαργαίνειν ἀνέηκεν[Refs ([prev. work] 882)]: generally, set on or urge to do a thing, with infinitive, Μοῦσ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀοιδὸν ἀνῆκεν ἀειδέμεναι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.73, compare 17.425, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.276, 5.422)]: frequently with accusative person only, let loose, excite, as οὐδέ κε Τηλέμαχον.. ῷδ᾽ ἀνιείης[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.185; μέγας δέ σε θυμὸς ἀνῆκεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.25)]; τοῖσιν μὲν Θρασυμήδεα δῖον ἀνῆκεν urged Thrasymedes to their aid, [Refs (17.705)]:—so in passive, ἅπας κίνδυνος ἀνεῖται σοφίας[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 955.)]
II.3 ἀ. τινὰ πρός τι to let go for any purpose, τὸν λεὼν.. ἀνεῖναι πρὸς ἔργα τε καὶ θυσίας[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.129)]; ἐς παιγνίην ἑωυτὸν ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 173; τὰ μικρὰ εἰς τύχην ἀνείς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 974 (variant{ἀφείς}); τὰ σώματα ἐπὶ ῥᾳδιουργίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.75)]; ἐὰν δ᾽ ἀνῇς, ὕβριστον χρῆμα κἀκόλαστον [γυνή] if you leave her free, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 98.)]
II.4 let, allow, with accusative et infinitive, ἀνεῖναι αὐτοὺς ὅ τι βούλονται ποιεῖν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 179a; ἀ. τρίχας αὔξεσθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.36, compare 4.175)]: with infinitive omitted, ἀνεῖσα πένθει κόμαν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 323)]; ἀ. στολίδος κροκόεσσαν τρυφάν[Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work] 1491; κόμας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lysander” 1: with _dative_ _person_ et)]infinitive, ἀνεὶς αὐτῷ θηρᾶν having given him leave to hunt, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.3.)]
II.5 middle, loosen, undo, with accusative, κόλπον ἀνιεμένη baring her breast, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.80)]; αἶγας ἀνιέμενοι stripping or flaying goats, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.300; so ἀνεῖτο λαγόνας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 826)]; so in active, ἀνιέναι· δέρειν, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
II.6 let go free, leave untilled, of ground dedicated to a god, τέμενος ἀνῆκεν ἅπαν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.116; ἀργὸν παντάπασι τὸ χωρίον ἀνιέντες τῷ θεῷ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Publicola” 8; generally, τὴν χώραν ἀ. μηλόβοτον 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 14.31; ἀρούρας ἀσπόρους ἀ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.11.9; στέλεχος ἀνειμένον)]allowed to run wild, [LXX (LXX.Gen.49.21)]:—but this sense mostly in passive, devote oneself, give oneself up, ἐς τὸ ἐλεύθερον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.103)]; especially of animals dedicated to a god, which are let range at large (compare ἄνετος), ἀνεῖται τὰ θηρία[Refs ([prev. author] 2.65)]; of a person devoted to the gods, νῦν δ᾽ οὗτος ἀνεῖται στυγερῷ δαίμονι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1214)]; of places, etc., θεοῖσιν ἀ. δένδρεα[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Cererem” 47)]; ἄλσος ἀνειμένον a consecrated grove, conjecture in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 761c)]; of land, ἀ. εἰς νομάς[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 60.8, 72.36 (2nd c.BC): hence _metaphorically_, ἀνειμένος εἴς τι)] devoted to a thing, wholly engaged in it, e.g. ἐς τὸν πόλεμον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.167)]; ἀνέωνται ἐς τὸ μάχιμον they are given up to military service, [Refs ([prev. work] 165)]; ἐς τὸ κέρδος λῆμ᾽ ἀνειμένον given up to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 3: hence)]perfect participle passive ἀνειμένος as adjective, going free, left to one's own will and pleasure, at large, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 579, “El.” 516; ἀ. τι χρῆμα πρεσβυτῶν γένος καὶ δυσφύλακτον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 727)]; πέπλοι ἀνειμένοι let hang loose, [Refs ([prev. work] 598)]; τὸ εἰς ἀδικίαν καὶ πλεονεξίαν -μένον unrestrained propensity to.., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Numa” 16; σώματα πρὸς πᾶσαν ἐπιθυμίαν ἀνειμένα [prev. author] “Lyc.” 10.)]
II.7 slacken, relax, opposed to ἐπιτείνω or ἐντείνω, of a bow or stringed instrument, unstring, as [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.22, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 442a, “Ly.” 209b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.10.7, etc.)]; especially of musical scales, ἁρμονίαι ἀνειμέναι, opposed to σύντονοι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1342b22, +others; ἀνειμένα Ἰαστὶ μοῦσα Pratin.Lyric poetry 5)]: metaphorically, ὀργῆς ὀλίγον τὸν κόλλοπ᾽ ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 574, compare 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 145.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 410e; πολιτεῖαι ἀνειμέναι καὶ μαλακαί 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1290a28; τοῖς γηράσκουσι ἀνίεται ἡ συντονία “GA” 787b13)]; ἀνειμένη τάσις the grave accent,[Refs (Scholia 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus p.130H.; οἱ πάγοι τὰς φλόγας ἀ.)]temper, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 397b2: hence,)]
II.7.b remit, neglect, give up, στέρνων ἀραγμούς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1608; φυλακὰς ἀνῆκα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1042)]; φυλακήν, ἄσκησιν, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.27, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.70, etc.)]; ἀ. θάνατόν τινι to remit sentence of death to one, let one live, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 531; ἔχθρας, κολάσεις τισί 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.536a)]; ἀ. τὰ χρέα, τὰς καταδίκας, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Sol.” 15, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 64.8, compare 72.2)]; ἄνες λόγον speak more mildly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 442; so ἀ. τινὸς ἔχθραν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.10)]; ἀ. ἀρχήν, πόλεμον, etc., [Refs ([prev. author] 1.76, 7.18, etc.)]:—passive, to be treated remissly, ἀνεθήσεται τὰ πράγματα[Refs ([prev. author] 8.63; ὁ νόμος ἀνεῖται)]has become effete, powerless, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 941: frequently in)]perfect participle ἀνειμένος as an adjective, ἐν τῷ ἀνειμένῳ τῆς γνώμης when their minds are not strung up for action, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.9)]; ἀνειμένῃ τῇ διαίτῃ relaxed, unconstrained, of the Athenians, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.6)]; δίαιτα λίαν ἀ., of the Ephors, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1270b32; ἀ. ἡδοναί)]dissolute, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 573a)]; ἄνανδρος καὶ λίαν ἀ.[Refs ([prev. work] 549d; ἀ. χείλεα)]parched, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.63)]; of climate, ἀ. καὶ μαλακός[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 5.4.4; ὀσμὴ μαλακὴ καὶ ἀ. 5.7.1)]: comparative ἀνειμενώτερος[Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 15.67:)] —but,
II.8 the sense of relaxation occurs also as an intransitive usage of the active, slacken, abate, of the wind, ἐπειδὰν πνεῦμ᾽ ἀνῇ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 639, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.113, 4.152; ἕως ἀνῇ τὸ πῆμα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 764, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.94)]; ἐμφῦσα οὐκ ἀνίει, of a viper, having fastened on him she does not let go, [Refs ([prev. author] 3.109: especially in phrase οὐδὲν ἀνιέναι)] not to give way at all, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.46, compare “Cyr.” 1.4.22)]; τὰς τιμὰς ἀνεικέναι ἤκουον that prices had fallen, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 56.25, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1390a15)]; σιδήρια ἀ. ἐν τοῖς μαλακοῖς lose their edge, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.5.1.)]
II.8.b with participle, give up or cease doing, ὕων οὐκ ἀνίει [ὁ θεός] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.28, compare 125, 2.121.β, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 318, etc.)]
II.8.c with genitive, cease from a thing, μωρίας[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Med.” 457; τῆς ὀργῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 700, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.186; φιλονικίας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.32)]; ἀνῆκε τοῦ ἐξελθεῖν forbore to come forth, [LXX (LXX.1Ki.23.13.)]
II.9 dilute, dissolve, διά τινος or τινί, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.520, +others, “Geoponica” 4.7.3, compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 7.20.5 (2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 19 says that διΐημι is more correct in this sense))]; διυγραινομένων καὶ ἀνιεμένων[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Ventis” 58.)]
(ἀνιεῖς, as if from ἀνιέω, uncertain in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.880))], ησι: imperfect ἀνίην, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and _Attic dialect_ 2)] and 3rd.pers.singular εις, ει, Ionic dialect 3rd.pers.singular ἀνίη[Refs 8th c.BC+ (“SIG” 1 (Abu Simbel, 6th c.BC, Iterat. ἀνίεσκε 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 157; also ἠνίει 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 7.46)]; 1st pers.singular ἀνίειν[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cat.” 4:)]future ἀνήσω: perfect ἀνεῖκα: aorist 1 ἀνῆκ; Ionic dialect ἀνέηκα.:—the Homeric forms ἀνέσει[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.265)], aorist optative ἀνέσαιμι[Refs (14.209)], participle ἀνέσαντες[Refs 8th c.BC+ (13.657 should be referred to ἀνέζω, but ἄνεσαν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.537 is from ἀνίημι)]: aorist 2, 3rd.pers.plural ἀνεῖσαν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.32, _imperative_ ἄνες 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 489, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1101, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 442)], subjunctive ἀνῇς[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 183)], Epic dialect 3rd.pers.singular subjunctive ἀνήη[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.34, _optative_ ἀνείη,)]infinitive ἀνεῖναι, participle ἀνείς:—passive, ἀνίεμαι: perfect ἀνεῖμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.65, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 413)], 3rd.pers.plural perfect ἀνέωνται[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.165 (variant{ἀνέονται}),)]infinitive ἀνἑῶσθαι (sic) [Refs (“Tab.Heracl.” 1.153)]: aorist participle ἀνεθείς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 41c e)]: future ἀνεθήσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.63. [ἀνῐ- _Epic dialect_, ἀνῑ-)] Attic dialect: but even [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has ἀνῑει, ἀνῑέμενος, and we find ἀνῐησιν in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 153 (_anapaest meter_))].]: —send up or forth, Ζεφύροιο.. ἀήτας Ὠκεανὸς ἀνίησιν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.568)]; of Charybdis, τρὶς μὲν γάρ τ᾽ ἀνίησιν.. τρὶς δ᾽ ἀναροιβδεῖ[Refs (12.105; ἀφρὸν ἀ.)]spew up, vomit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 183; σταγόνας [αἵματος] ἀ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1277)]; of the earth, καρπὸν ἀ. make corn or fruit spring up, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (Hymnus in Cererem 333; κνώδαλα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 266)]; also of the gods, ἀ. ἄροτον γῆς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 270, etc.)]; so of females, produce, [Refs ([prev. work] 1405)]:—in passive, σπαρτῶν ἀπ᾽ ἀνδρῶν ῥίζωμ᾽ ἀνεῖται[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 413)]: then in various relations, συὸς χρῆμα ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 401; κρήνην 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 766)]; of a forest, πῦρ καὶ φλόγα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.77; πνεῦμ᾽ ἀνεὶς ἐκ πνευμόνων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 277)]:—send up from the grave or nether world, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 650, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1462, 5th c.BC: Phrynichus Comicus 1 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 403e, etc.:)] — passive, ἐκ γῆς κάτωθεν ἀνίεται ὁ πλοῦτος[Refs ([prev. passage])]; of fruit, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 5.1.5.)]
2 let come up, give access to, τινά[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.11; εἰς τὸ πεδίον [prev. work] 7.2.12.)]
II let go, from [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus downwards a very common sense, ἐμὲ δὲ γλυκὺς ὕπνος ἀνῆκεν,)] i.e. left me, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.71, etc., compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 310d)]: —passive, ἀνίεσθαι wake up, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.56)]; set free, ἐκ στέγης ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1101)]; let go unpunished, ἄνδρα τὴν ὀλιγαρχίαν λυμαινόμενον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.51, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.93)]; ἄνετέ μ᾽ ἄνετε leave me alone, forbear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 229 (Lyric poetry))]; of a state of mind, ἐμὲ δ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὣς θυμὸν ἀνίει.. ὀδύνη[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.24; ὅταν μ᾽ ἀνῇ νόσος μανίας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 227; ὥς μιν ὁ οἶνος ἀνῆκε 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.213, etc.)]; ἀ. ἵππον to let him go (by slackening the rein), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 721; ἵππους εἰς τάχος ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 3.2; τῷ δήμῳ τὰς ἡνίας ἀ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 11.)]
II.b loosen, unfasten, δεσμόν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.359 (variant{δεσμῶν}); δεσμά τ᾽ ἀνεῖσαι 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hecale” 1.2.13)]: hence, open, πύλας ἄνεσαν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.537; ἀ. θύρετρα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 448)]; ἀ. σήμαντρα break the seal, [Refs ([prev. author] “IA” 325)]:—passive, πύλαι ἀνειμέναι[Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 10.14.)]
II.2 ἀ. τινί let loose at one, slip at, ἀ. τὰς κύνας[Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 7.7: hence ἄφρονα τοῦτον ἀνέντες 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.761, compare 880: with _accusative_ et)]infinitive, Διομήδεα μαργαίνειν ἀνέηκεν[Refs ([prev. work] 882)]: generally, set on or urge to do a thing, with infinitive, Μοῦσ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀοιδὸν ἀνῆκεν ἀειδέμεναι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.73, compare 17.425, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.276, 5.422)]: frequently with accusative person only, let loose, excite, as οὐδέ κε Τηλέμαχον.. ῷδ᾽ ἀνιείης[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.185; μέγας δέ σε θυμὸς ἀνῆκεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.25)]; τοῖσιν μὲν Θρασυμήδεα δῖον ἀνῆκεν urged Thrasymedes to their aid, [Refs (17.705)]:—so in passive, ἅπας κίνδυνος ἀνεῖται σοφίας[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 955.)]
II.3 ἀ. τινὰ πρός τι to let go for any purpose, τὸν λεὼν.. ἀνεῖναι πρὸς ἔργα τε καὶ θυσίας[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.129)]; ἐς παιγνίην ἑωυτὸν ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 173; τὰ μικρὰ εἰς τύχην ἀνείς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 974 (variant{ἀφείς}); τὰ σώματα ἐπὶ ῥᾳδιουργίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.75)]; ἐὰν δ᾽ ἀνῇς, ὕβριστον χρῆμα κἀκόλαστον [γυνή] if you leave her free, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 98.)]
II.4 let, allow, with accusative et infinitive, ἀνεῖναι αὐτοὺς ὅ τι βούλονται ποιεῖν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 179a; ἀ. τρίχας αὔξεσθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.36, compare 4.175)]: with infinitive omitted, ἀνεῖσα πένθει κόμαν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 323)]; ἀ. στολίδος κροκόεσσαν τρυφάν[Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work] 1491; κόμας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lysander” 1: with _dative_ _person_ et)]infinitive, ἀνεὶς αὐτῷ θηρᾶν having given him leave to hunt, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.3.)]
II.5 middle, loosen, undo, with accusative, κόλπον ἀνιεμένη baring her breast, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.80)]; αἶγας ἀνιέμενοι stripping or flaying goats, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.300; so ἀνεῖτο λαγόνας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 826)]; so in active, ἀνιέναι· δέρειν, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
II.6 let go free, leave untilled, of ground dedicated to a god, τέμενος ἀνῆκεν ἅπαν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.116; ἀργὸν παντάπασι τὸ χωρίον ἀνιέντες τῷ θεῷ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Publicola” 8; generally, τὴν χώραν ἀ. μηλόβοτον 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 14.31; ἀρούρας ἀσπόρους ἀ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.11.9; στέλεχος ἀνειμένον)]allowed to run wild, [LXX (LXX.Gen.49.21)]:—but this sense mostly in passive, devote oneself, give oneself up, ἐς τὸ ἐλεύθερον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.103)]; especially of animals dedicated to a god, which are let range at large (compare ἄνετος), ἀνεῖται τὰ θηρία[Refs ([prev. author] 2.65)]; of a person devoted to the gods, νῦν δ᾽ οὗτος ἀνεῖται στυγερῷ δαίμονι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1214)]; of places, etc., θεοῖσιν ἀ. δένδρεα[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Cererem” 47)]; ἄλσος ἀνειμένον a consecrated grove, conjecture in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 761c)]; of land, ἀ. εἰς νομάς[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 60.8, 72.36 (2nd c.BC): hence _metaphorically_, ἀνειμένος εἴς τι)] devoted to a thing, wholly engaged in it, e.g. ἐς τὸν πόλεμον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.167)]; ἀνέωνται ἐς τὸ μάχιμον they are given up to military service, [Refs ([prev. work] 165)]; ἐς τὸ κέρδος λῆμ᾽ ἀνειμένον given up to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 3: hence)]perfect participle passive ἀνειμένος as adjective, going free, left to one's own will and pleasure, at large, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 579, “El.” 516; ἀ. τι χρῆμα πρεσβυτῶν γένος καὶ δυσφύλακτον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 727)]; πέπλοι ἀνειμένοι let hang loose, [Refs ([prev. work] 598)]; τὸ εἰς ἀδικίαν καὶ πλεονεξίαν -μένον unrestrained propensity to.., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Numa” 16; σώματα πρὸς πᾶσαν ἐπιθυμίαν ἀνειμένα [prev. author] “Lyc.” 10.)]
II.7 slacken, relax, opposed to ἐπιτείνω or ἐντείνω, of a bow or stringed instrument, unstring, as [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.22, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 442a, “Ly.” 209b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.10.7, etc.)]; especially of musical scales, ἁρμονίαι ἀνειμέναι, opposed to σύντονοι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1342b22, +others; ἀνειμένα Ἰαστὶ μοῦσα Pratin.Lyric poetry 5)]: metaphorically, ὀργῆς ὀλίγον τὸν κόλλοπ᾽ ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 574, compare 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 145.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 410e; πολιτεῖαι ἀνειμέναι καὶ μαλακαί 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1290a28; τοῖς γηράσκουσι ἀνίεται ἡ συντονία “GA” 787b13)]; ἀνειμένη τάσις the grave accent,[Refs (Scholia 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus p.130H.; οἱ πάγοι τὰς φλόγας ἀ.)]temper, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 397b2: hence,)]
II.7.b remit, neglect, give up, στέρνων ἀραγμούς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1608; φυλακὰς ἀνῆκα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1042)]; φυλακήν, ἄσκησιν, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.27, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.70, etc.)]; ἀ. θάνατόν τινι to remit sentence of death to one, let one live, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 531; ἔχθρας, κολάσεις τισί 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.536a)]; ἀ. τὰ χρέα, τὰς καταδίκας, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Sol.” 15, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 64.8, compare 72.2)]; ἄνες λόγον speak more mildly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 442; so ἀ. τινὸς ἔχθραν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.10)]; ἀ. ἀρχήν, πόλεμον, etc., [Refs ([prev. author] 1.76, 7.18, etc.)]:—passive, to be treated remissly, ἀνεθήσεται τὰ πράγματα[Refs ([prev. author] 8.63; ὁ νόμος ἀνεῖται)]has become effete, powerless, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 941: frequently in)]perfect participle ἀνειμένος as an adjective, ἐν τῷ ἀνειμένῳ τῆς γνώμης when their minds are not strung up for action, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.9)]; ἀνειμένῃ τῇ διαίτῃ relaxed, unconstrained, of the Athenians, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.6)]; δίαιτα λίαν ἀ., of the Ephors, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1270b32; ἀ. ἡδοναί)]dissolute, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 573a)]; ἄνανδρος καὶ λίαν ἀ.[Refs ([prev. work] 549d; ἀ. χείλεα)]parched, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.63)]; of climate, ἀ. καὶ μαλακός[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 5.4.4; ὀσμὴ μαλακὴ καὶ ἀ. 5.7.1)]: comparative ἀνειμενώτερος[Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 15.67:)] —but,
II.8 the sense of relaxation occurs also as an intransitive usage of the active, slacken, abate, of the wind, ἐπειδὰν πνεῦμ᾽ ἀνῇ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 639, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.113, 4.152; ἕως ἀνῇ τὸ πῆμα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 764, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.94)]; ἐμφῦσα οὐκ ἀνίει, of a viper, having fastened on him she does not let go, [Refs ([prev. author] 3.109: especially in phrase οὐδὲν ἀνιέναι)] not to give way at all, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.46, compare “Cyr.” 1.4.22)]; τὰς τιμὰς ἀνεικέναι ἤκουον that prices had fallen, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 56.25, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1390a15)]; σιδήρια ἀ. ἐν τοῖς μαλακοῖς lose their edge, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.5.1.)]
II.8.b with participle, give up or cease doing, ὕων οὐκ ἀνίει [ὁ θεός] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.28, compare 125, 2.121.β, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 318, etc.)]
II.8.c with genitive, cease from a thing, μωρίας[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Med.” 457; τῆς ὀργῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 700, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.186; φιλονικίας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.32)]; ἀνῆκε τοῦ ἐξελθεῖν forbore to come forth, [LXX (LXX.1Ki.23.13.)]
II.9 dilute, dissolve, διά τινος or τινί, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.520, +others, “Geoponica” 4.7.3, compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 7.20.5 (2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 19 says that διΐημι is more correct in this sense))]; διυγραινομένων καὶ ἀνιεμένων[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Ventis” 58.)]