Strong G1262διαλύω

to disperse

Transliteration
dialuō
Pronunciation
dee-al-oo'-o
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G1223 and G3089; to dissolve utterly: - scatter.

Detailed definition

δια-λύω
[in LXX for אבה, חבל, etc.;]
to part asunder, dissolve; of an assembly, pass., to disperse: Act.5:36.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G1262 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • scatter1

First verses

  1. Acts 5:36
    For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
διαλύω,
future -λύσω, etc., loose one from another, part asunder, διαπλέκων καὶ διαλύων twining and untwining, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.67; νὺξ δ. τοὺς ἀγωνιζομένους [prev. author] 8.11)]; δ. τὸν σύλλογον, τὴν συνουσίαν, τὴν πανήγυριν, etc., break it up, dismiss it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 7.10.δ, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 223b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.10, etc.)]; τὴν σκηνὴν εἰς κοίτην δ. break up the party and go to bed, [Refs ([prev. work] 2.3.1; δ. τὴν στρατιάν [prev. work] 6.1.6)]; τὸ ναυτικόν disband it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.93)]:— middle, συνουσίας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 457d)]:—passive, of an army, assembly, etc., disperse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.128, etc.; ἐκ τοῦ συλλόγου [prev. author] 3.73, compare 8.56)]: in future middle, part from one's escort, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.12)]; of a man, die, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.7.20.)]
2 dissolve into its elements, break up, destroy, δ. καὶ ἀπολλύναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 609a s 1.; ἐξ ἑνὸς εἰς πολλὰ δ. [prev. author] “Ti.” 68d)]; disperse, break up a herd of sheep, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“BGU” 1012.12 (2nd c.BC))]; break up a ship, παλαιὰν τριήρη δ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“IG” 2.804, compare “PSI” 4.382 (3rd c.BC))]; τρίπους, ὅρμος διαλελυμένος, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“SIG” 2588.169,198 (Delos, 2nd c.BC))]; τὰς οἰκήσεις [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.65.4)]; dissolve, κοινόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Test.Epict.” 8.6; σῴζεσθαι καὶ διαλυθεῖσαν οἴχεσθαι πολιτείαν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 945c)]; of the sun, thaw frozen things, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.2)]:—passive, ἐξ ὧν σύγκειται καὶ εἰς ἃ διαλύεται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione et Corruptione” 325b19, compare “Ph.” 204b33, etc.)]
3 break off, put an end to friendship, ὁμολογίας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.175; φιλίαν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1157b10)]:—passive, of married persons, separate, be divorced, [Refs (“SIG” 364.59 (from Ephesus))]:—middle, διαλύσασθαι ξεινίην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.154)]: absolutely, dissolve friendship, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1162b25)]:—passive, αἱ σπονδαὶ διελέλυντο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.1.)]
4 put an end to enmity, ἔχθραν, πόλεμον, [Refs ([prev. author] 8.46)]:—middle, δ. ἔχθρας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 7.11; διαφοράς 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.160; πολέμους [prev. author] 4.172, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.15: in)]pluperfect passive (with middle signification), διελέλυσθε τὸν πόλεμον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 14.27 (variant{διελύεσθε}))]:—passive, τὰς ἔχθρας διαλύεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.19: hence,)]
4.b with accusative person, reconcile, πρὸς ἔμ᾽ αὑτὸν διαλύειν ἠξίου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.122, compare 41.14; δ. τινὰς ἐκ διαφορᾶς 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.87.4; οὐ γὰρ ἦν ὁ διαλύσων οὔτε λόγος οὔτε ὅρκος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.83)]; especially in legal proceedings, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PHamb.” 25.5 (3rd c.BC), etc.:)] —passive and middle, with genitive of things, διαλύεσθαι νείκους to be parted from quarrel, i.e. be reconciled, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1679 (variant{νείκας}))]; so διαλυθείσης τῆς διαφορᾶς probably in [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 14.110)]: also absolutely, to be reconciled, make up a quarrel, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.4.25, cf. Test. cited in 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.66, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 12.14; πρός τινας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 38.24; περί τινος 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 4.1)]: in future middle, ὅπως.. μὴ διαλύσει [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.216.)]
5 generally, put an end to, do away with, χρήμασι τὴν διαβολήν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.131)]; πάσας αὐτοῦ διαλύσω τὰς ἀπολογίας[Refs 5th c.BC+ (d. 27.58; τὸν ἐχόμενον φόβον δ. τῶν Ἑλλήνων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 241b)]:—so in middle, ἐγκλήματα δ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.140)]; δ. περὶ τῶν ἐγκλημάτων[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 145; διαβολάς 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.37, 15.16; τι τῶν κατηγορημένων [prev. author] 12.218)]; δ. ἃ ἐψηφίσασθε cancel your vote, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 18.15)]; διαλύσασθαι τὰ πρὸς ἀλλήλους settle mutual claims, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.40.)]
6 solve a difficulty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 252d; τὴν ἀπορίαν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1062b31)]:—middle, διαλύσεσθαι σόφισμα [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.238.)]
7 δ.τὰς τιμάς pay the full value, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 29.7)]; pay, discharge, τὴν δαπάνην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.30; χρήματα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.12; τὰ συμβόλαια 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1276a11; χρέος τινί 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 31.27.4; πάντα διελέλυτο 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 28.2: also with _accusative_ _person_, δ. τὸν ναύκληρον)] satisfy him, i.e. pay him off, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 49.29, compare 34.40, 36.50)]:—middle, order debts to be paid, διαλέλυμαι ταῦτα [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 7.10.3)]; but also, to have them paid to oneself, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 46.6.)]
II relax, weaken, τὸ σῶμα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 3.17)]; especially of the result of hunger, διαλύεσθαι τῷ λιμῷ [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“UPZ” 11.27 (2nd c.BC), compare 42.9 (also in)]active intransitive, ὑπὸ τῆς λιμοῦ δ.[Refs 2nd c.BC+ ([prev. work] 122.23 (2nd c.BC)))]; make supple and pliant, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 85)]:—passive, δ. καὶ ἀδυνατεῖν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 585a33)]; ἀνάπλους διαλελυμένος a sailing out in loose order, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 16.2.6)]; διαλελυμένη λέξις a lax style, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Lysia” 9.)]
II.2 absolutely, slacken one's hold, undo, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 24.32.)]