Strong G3089λύω
to loose
- Transliteration
- luō
- Pronunciation
- loo'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A primary verb; to loosen (literally or figuratively): - break (up) destroy dissolve (un-) loose melt put off. Compare G4486 .
Detailed definition
λύω
[in LXX for פָּתַח, נָתַר hi., etc.;]
1. to loose, unbind, release: of things, Mrk.1:7, Luk.3:16, al.; of beasts, Mat.21:2, Luk.13:15, al.; of persons, Jhn.11:44, Act.22:30; of Satan, Rev.20:3, 7; metaphorically, of the marriage tie, 1Co.7:27; of one diseased, Luk.13:16; of release from sin, Rev.1:5, WH, R, txt. (see: λούω).
2. To resolve a whole into its parts, loosen, dissolve, break up, destroy: Jhn.2:19, Act.27:41, Rev.5:2; metaphorically, 2Pe.3:11; of an assembly, to dismiss: Act.13:43; τ. μεσότοιχον τ. φραγμοῦ, Eph.2:14; τ. στοιχεῖα, 2Pe.3:10; οὐρανοί, 2Pe.3:12; τ. ἔργα τ. διαβόλου, 1Jn.3:8; τ. ὠδῖνας τ. θανάτου, Act.2:24; of laws, etc., to break, annul, cancel (MM, xvi): ἐντολήν, Mat.5:19; τ. νόμον, Jhn.7:23; τ. σάββατον, Jhn.5:18; τ. γραφήν, Jhn.10:35.
(cf. ἀνα-, ἀπο-, δια-, ἐκ-, ἐπι-, κατα-, παρα-λύω.)
(AS)
[in LXX for פָּתַח, נָתַר hi., etc.;]
1. to loose, unbind, release: of things, Mrk.1:7, Luk.3:16, al.; of beasts, Mat.21:2, Luk.13:15, al.; of persons, Jhn.11:44, Act.22:30; of Satan, Rev.20:3, 7; metaphorically, of the marriage tie, 1Co.7:27; of one diseased, Luk.13:16; of release from sin, Rev.1:5, WH, R, txt. (see: λούω).
2. To resolve a whole into its parts, loosen, dissolve, break up, destroy: Jhn.2:19, Act.27:41, Rev.5:2; metaphorically, 2Pe.3:11; of an assembly, to dismiss: Act.13:43; τ. μεσότοιχον τ. φραγμοῦ, Eph.2:14; τ. στοιχεῖα, 2Pe.3:10; οὐρανοί, 2Pe.3:12; τ. ἔργα τ. διαβόλου, 1Jn.3:8; τ. ὠδῖνας τ. θανάτου, Act.2:24; of laws, etc., to break, annul, cancel (MM, xvi): ἐντολήν, Mat.5:19; τ. νόμον, Jhn.7:23; τ. σάββατον, Jhn.5:18; τ. γραφήν, Jhn.10:35.
(cf. ἀνα-, ἀπο-, δια-, ἐκ-, ἐπι-, κατα-, παρα-λύω.)
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3089 appears in 40 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- loose23
- break7
- unloose3
- destroy2
- dissolve2
- ye2
- doth1
- he1
- melt1
- put1
- should1
- thou1
First verses
- Matthew 5:19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
- Matthew 16:19And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
- Matthew 18:18Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
- Matthew 21:2Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.
- Mark 1:7And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
- Mark 7:35And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
- Mark 11:2And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.
- Mark 11:4And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.
- Mark 11:5And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt?
- Luke 3:16John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
- Luke 13:15The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
- Luke 13:16And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
- Luke 19:30Saying, Go ye into the village over against you; in the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither.
- Luke 19:31And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.
- Luke 19:33And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt?
- John 1:27He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
- John 2:19Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
- John 5:18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
- John 7:23If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
- John 10:35If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
λύω,
poetry imperative λῦθι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 85:)]future λύσω [ῡ] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.29, etc.)]: aorist ἔλῡσα [Refs (18.244, etc.)]: perfect λέλῠκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.18, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 992 (ἀπο-))], etc.:— passive, perfect λέλῠμαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.103)], etc.: pluperfect ἐλελύμην [ῠ] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.186)], etc.: aorist ἐλύθην, Epic dialect λύθην [ῠ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (8.360, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 860, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.103, etc.)]: future λῠθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 41b, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.116, etc., also λελύσομαι [ῡ] 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 14.2, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.37 (ἀπο-): _Epic dialect_)]aorist passive λύμην [ῠ] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.80)]; λύτο [ῠ[Refs (] [prev. work] 114, but λῦτο 24.1 (at beginning of line, variant{λύτο}))]; λύντο [Refs (7.16)]: also 3rd.pers. singular optative perfect λελῦτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.238)]:—middle, future λύσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.13, etc.)]: aorist ἐλυσάμην [Refs (14.214:)]perfect passive λέλῦμαι in middle sense, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.45, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1400a22 (compare δια-, κατα-λύω):)]future λύσομαι in passive sense, (δια-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.12, (ἐπι-) 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 25.33 codices (καταλύσεσθαι editions), (κατα-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.9.)]—Homer uses all tenses except perfect active, present and future passive [In present and imperfect ῡ always in Attic dialect, ῠ mostly in Epic dialect, though [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] has ῡ twice, ἔλῡεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.513, λῡει 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.74)]; also in compounds, ἀλλῡεσκεν [Refs (2.105, ἀλλῡουσαν [prev. work] 109: in)]future and aorist 1 ῡ always: in other tenses ῠ always, except in the forms λελῦτο, λῦτο (see. above).] (Cf. Latin luo (pay), re-luo, solvo (for se-luo), solūtus, etc.):—loosen:
I of things, unbind, unfasten, especially clothes and armour, λῦσε δέ οἱ ζωστῇρα, θώρηκα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.215, 16.804)]; λ. παρθενίην ζώνην loose the maiden-girdle, of the husband after marriage, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.245)]; of the wife, λύοι χαλινὸν ὑφ᾽ ἥρωϊ παρθενίας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).48; ἔνθα παρθένει᾽ ἔλυσ᾽ ἐγὼ κορεύματα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 177; so ἔλυσας.. ἅγνευμα σόν [prev. author] “Tr.” 501)]; frequently of the tackling of ships, λ. πρυμνήσια, ἱστία, λαῖφος, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.418, 15.496, 552, “hymnus ad Apollinem” 406, etc. (never in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”))]; λ. πρύμνας, νεῶν πόδα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 539, 1020, etc.: _absolutely_, λύειν)], of ships, set sail, λῦε, κυβερνήτα [Refs (“APl.” 1.6 *.9 (from Panteleus))]; ἀσκὸν λ. untie a skin (used as a bag), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.47: frequently in Trag., λ. στολάς, πέπλον, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1597, “Tr.” 924)]; λ. ἡνίαν slacken the rein, [Refs ([prev. author] “El.” 743)]; κλῄθρων λυθέντων when the gates have been opened, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 396)]; λ. γράμματα, δέλτον, open a letter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 38 (_anapaest meter_), 307)]; λ. πέδας, δεσμά, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 645 (_passive_), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1123; ἀρβύλας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 945)]; ἀρτάνας.. δέρης ἔλυσαν loosed it from my neck,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 876, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 781:)] —middle, ἀπὸ στήθεσφιν ἐλύσατο κεστὸν ἱμάντα undid her belt, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.214)]; but λύοντο τεύχεα they undid the armour for themselves, i.e. stripped it off (others), [Refs (17.318)]; later λυσαμένα πλοκαμῖδας unbinding her hair, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Bion Bucolicus 1.20, etc.)]
I.b in various phrases, στόμα λ. open the mouth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1060, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.96; γλώσσας λ. εἰς αἰσχροὺς μύθους 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 6.9 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]; λ. βλεφάρων ἕδραν wake up, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 8 (_anapaest meter_))]; λ. ὀφρύν unfold the brow, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Hipp.” 290; λ. ἄχος ἀπ᾽ ὀμμάτων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 706 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]
I.2 of living beings,
I.2.a of horses, etc., unyoke, unharness, opposed to ζεύγνυμι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.35)]; ἐξ ὀχέων, ὑπὲξ ὀχέων, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.369, 8.504; ὑφ᾽ ἅρμασιν 18.244; ὑπὸ ζυγοῦ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.39: ὑπὸ ζυγόφιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.576; ὑπ᾽ ἀπήνης 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.6 (also in _middle_, μὴ.. ὑπ᾽ ὄχεσφι λυώμεθα μώνυχας ἵππους)] unyoke our horses, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.7; βόε λῦσαι 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 608))]; λύε μώνυχας ἵππους loosed them, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.498)]; λ. κύνα let him loose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.13, etc.)]
I.2.b of men, release, deliver, especially from bonds or prison, and so, generally, from difficulty or danger, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.22, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.345, 12.53, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.206, etc.)]; ὁ λύσων he that shall deliver, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 771, 785: with _genitive_ _of things_, τὸν.. θεοὶ κακότητος ἔλυσαν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.397, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.50, etc.; λ. τινὰ δεσμῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1006; ὄκνου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 181; τὼ.. ἐκ δεσμοῖο λύθεν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.360, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 4.23, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 873, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1244, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 360c)]; also λ. δόμους ἁβρότατος rob the house of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.34)]; λ. τινὰ τῆς ἀρχῆς depose him from.., [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 13.92)]:—middle, properly get one loosed or set free, λύσασθαί τινα δυσφροσυνάων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 528; ὅσπερ Ἰὼ πημονᾶς ἐλύσατο 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 1065 (Lyric poetry))]:—passive, λυθῆναι τὰς πέδας [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.116)]; λέλυται γὰρ λαὸς ἐλεύθερα βάζειν, ὡς ἐλύθη ζυγὸν ἀλκᾶς has been let loose to speak, since the yoke was loosed, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 592 (Lyric poetry).)]
I.2.c of prisoners, release on receipt of ransom, admit to ransom, release, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.29, 24.137, 555, etc.; λ. τινά τινι 1.20, 24.561, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.298)]; Σαρπηδόνος ἔντεα καλὰ λύσειαν would give them up, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.163; in full, λ. τινὰ ἀποίνων 11.106; χρημάτων μεγάλων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.135 (_passive_))]; ἀνὴρ ἀντ᾽ ἀνδρὸς λυθείς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.3)]:—middle, release by payment of ransom, get a person released, redeem, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.13, 24.118, +others, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.284, 385, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 243c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.229; λύσασθαί τινας ἐκ πολεμίων 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.20; ἵππον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.8.6; ὅσους αὐτὸς ἐλυσάμην τῶν αἰχμαλώτων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.169; λ. τινὶ τὸ χωρίον [prev. author] 50.28)]; ἑαυτοὺς λ. pay their own ransom, [Refs ([prev. author] 19.169)]; buy from a pimp, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1353.)]
I.2.d λελύσθαι τῶν νόμων, = Latin legibus solvi, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 53.18.)]
I.3 give up, [θρόνον] λῦσον ἄμμιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.155.)]
II resolve a whole into its parts, dissolve, break up, λ. ἀγορήν dissolve the assembly, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.305; ἀγορὰς ἠμὲν λύει ἠδὲ καθίζει 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.69, etc.)]:—passive, λῦτο δ᾽ ἀγών [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.1; μὴ λυθείη ἡ στρατιά 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.2)]; πρὶν [ἂν].. ἡ ἀγορὰ (market) λυθῇ [Refs 2nd c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Oec.” 12.1; λυθείσης τῆς συνουσίας 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.15.3.)]
II.2 of concrete objects, σπάρτα λέλυνται, i. e. have rotted, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.135; ῥαφαὶ δ᾽ ἐλέλυντο ἱμάντων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.186)]; λ. τὴν σχεδίην break it up, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.97)]; [τὴν γέφυραν] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.4.17; τὴν ἀπόφραξιν [prev. work] 4.2.25.)]
II.3 especially of physical strength, loosen, i. e. weaken, relax, λῦσε δὲ γυῖα made his limbs slack or loose, i. e. killed him, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.469, +others; ὅς τοι γούνατ᾽ ἔλυσα 22.335; πολλῶν τε καὶ ἐσθλῶν γούνατ᾽ ἔλυσεν 5.176, etc.; ἀλλά οἱ αὖθι λῦσε μένος 16.332; πέλεκυς λῦσεν.. βοὸς μένος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.450, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.29)]; but οἵ μοι καμάτῳ.. γούνατ᾽ ἔλυσαν made my knees weak with toil, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.118:)] —passive, λύντο δὲ γυῖα, etc., as the effect of death, sleep, weariness, fear, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.16, etc.; καμάτῳ φίλα γυῖα λέλυντο 13.85, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.233; αὐτοῦ λύτο γούνατα καὶ φίλον ἦτορ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.114, 425; λύθη ψυχή τε μένος τε 5.296, etc.; λύθεν δέ οἱ ἅψεα πάντα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.794, 18.189; λέλυται γυίων ῥώμη 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 913 (_anapaest meter_); λύεται δέ μου μέλη 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 438; λέλυμαι μελέων σύνδεσμα [prev. author] “Hipp.” 199 (_anapaest meter_).)]
II.3.b λύει βλέφαρα closes her eyes in sleep, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1302.)]
II.3.c metaphorically, λ. τὴν ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς πρὸς μάχην παρασκευήν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.5.22.)]
II.4 undo, bring to naught, destroy, πολίων κάρηνα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.25; Τροίης κρήδεμνα 16.100, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.388, compare 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus “fragment” 16.7)]: generally, put an end to, νείκεα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.205; μελεδήματα 23.62; ἔριν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 81, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.316.12 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus); πόλεμον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.31; ἐπιμομφάν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).9; μέμψιν 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 271; φόβον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 270; φόβον καὶ τὴν ὑποψίαν Polystr. p.7 W.,compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sententiae” 12; μοχθήματα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1616; ἀνάγκας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 39)]; βίον, i.e. die, [Refs ([prev. author] “IT” 692)]; αἰῶν᾽ ἔλυσε, i.e. died, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.43; λ. τὸ τέλος βίον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1720 (Lyric poetry))]; μαχας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 991 (_anapaest meter_); νοσήματα Diocl.fragment 35 (_passive_),compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.476; κόπους 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus “Eup.” 1.220)]; forgive, ἁμαρτήματα [LXX (LXX.Job.42.9.)]
II.4.b in Prose, λ. νόμους repeal or annul laws, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.82, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.10, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1269a15)]; οὐθὲν τῶν περὶ τὴν πολιτείαν[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1298b31; λ. ψήφῳ τὸ παράνομον 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.197 (_passive_), etc.)]; ἐπεὶ ἐκεῖνοι ἔλυσαν τὰς σπονδὰς λελύσθαι μοι δοκεῖ ἡ ἐκείνων ὕβρις καὶ ἡ ἡμετέρα ὑποψία [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.21)]; rescind a vote, ψῆφον λύει ὁ νόμος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.2)]; revoke a will, διαθήκην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.33, etc.)] (but in passive, to be opened, of a will, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 715.19 (2nd c.AD), etc.))]; unbind a spell, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de Mysteriis” 3.27:)] —passive, λέλυται πάντα all ties are broken, all is in confusion, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.25.)]
II.4.c as a technical term, solve a difficulty, a problem, a question, λύεται ἡ ἀπορία [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 324e, +others; λ. ζήτημα 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.436.)]
II.4.d refute an argument, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 509a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1402b24, +others; compare λύσις 11.4b, λυτικός 11.)]
II.4.e unravel the plot of a tragedy, opposed to πλέκειν, [Refs ([prev. author] “Po.” 1456a10.)]
II.4.f λ. τὴν φάσιν, of the Moon, pass out of, [Refs (Vett. Val. 134.1, compare 2.)]
II.5 break a legal agreement or obligation, τὸν νόμον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.106; τὰς σπονδάς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.23, 78, compare 4.23, +others; τὰ συγκείμενα 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.41)]; σίς κε τὰς ϝρήτας τάσδε λύση whoso breaks this agreement, [Refs (“Inscription Cyprian dialect” 135.29 H.)]
II.6 in physical sense, dissolve, λύθεν, opposed to πάγεν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 15.4)]; τὸ θερμὸν λύει, opposed to πήγνυσι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 384b11, compare 382b33 (_passive_))]; ἀμμωνιακὸν ὄξει λύσας [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 11.106)]; melt, παγείσας χιόνας [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.4.2; τι πυρὶ λ. “Hippiatrica” 52.)]
II.7 of medicines, λ. τὴν κοιλίαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 863b29, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.(Sp.)” 38, Diocl.fragment 140)]; so of the effects of terror, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 877a32 (_passive_).)]
II.8 resolve [musical notation] into [musical notation], in passive, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 8, 10, 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor 1st c.AD: Quintilianus Rhetor Latinus 1.28.)]
III solve, fulfil, accomplish, τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ μαντεῖα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 407; ὅρκον 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.58.4.)]
IV atone for, make up for, τὰς πρότερον ἁμαρτίας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ra.” 691; λύσων ὅσ᾽ ἐξήμαρτον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1224; λ. φόνον φόνῳ [prev. author] “OT” 101, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 511; αἱ πρόσοδοι λύουσι τἀναλώματα 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 32.5)]:—middle, τῶν πάλαι πεπραγμένων λύσασθ᾽ αἷμα.. δίκαις [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 804 (Lyric poetry).)]
V μισθὸν λύειν pay wages in full, quit oneself of them, used only in cases of obligation, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 2.31.)]
V.2 τέλη λύειν, ={λυσιτελεῖν}, pay, profit. avail, ἔνθα μὴ τέλη λύει φρονοῦντι where it boots not to be wise, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 316: but more frequently λύει without τέλη)], construed like{λυσιτελεῖ}, absolutely, λύει δ᾽ ἄλγος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1362, compare “PSI” 4.400.16: with _dative_ _person_, φημὶ τοιούτους γάμους λύειν βροτοῖσιν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 628, compare “Hipp.” 441: with)]infinitive, πῶς οὖν λύει.. ἐπιβάλλει; [Refs ([prev. author] “Med.” 1112 (_anapaest meter_))]; ἐμοί τελύειτοῖσιμέλλουσιν τέκνοις τὰ ζῶντ᾽ ὀνῆσαι it is good for me to benefit my living children by means of those to come,[Refs 2nd c.BC+ ([prev. work] 566; λύει ἀπελθεῖν “UPZ” 77i12 (2nd c.BC): with _accusative_ et)]infinitive, λύει γὰρ ἡμᾶς οὐδέν, οὐδ᾽ ἐπωφελεῖ,.. θανεῖν it is not expedient that we should die (οὐδ᾽ ἐπωφελεῖ being parenthetic), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1005; οὐ γάρ με λύει.. κακορροθεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Sthen.Prol.” 35)]; compare λυσιτελέω.
poetry imperative λῦθι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 85:)]future λύσω [ῡ] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.29, etc.)]: aorist ἔλῡσα [Refs (18.244, etc.)]: perfect λέλῠκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.18, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 992 (ἀπο-))], etc.:— passive, perfect λέλῠμαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.103)], etc.: pluperfect ἐλελύμην [ῠ] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.186)], etc.: aorist ἐλύθην, Epic dialect λύθην [ῠ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (8.360, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 860, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.103, etc.)]: future λῠθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 41b, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.116, etc., also λελύσομαι [ῡ] 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 14.2, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.37 (ἀπο-): _Epic dialect_)]aorist passive λύμην [ῠ] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.80)]; λύτο [ῠ[Refs (] [prev. work] 114, but λῦτο 24.1 (at beginning of line, variant{λύτο}))]; λύντο [Refs (7.16)]: also 3rd.pers. singular optative perfect λελῦτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.238)]:—middle, future λύσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.13, etc.)]: aorist ἐλυσάμην [Refs (14.214:)]perfect passive λέλῦμαι in middle sense, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.45, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1400a22 (compare δια-, κατα-λύω):)]future λύσομαι in passive sense, (δια-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.12, (ἐπι-) 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 25.33 codices (καταλύσεσθαι editions), (κατα-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.9.)]—Homer uses all tenses except perfect active, present and future passive [In present and imperfect ῡ always in Attic dialect, ῠ mostly in Epic dialect, though [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] has ῡ twice, ἔλῡεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.513, λῡει 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.74)]; also in compounds, ἀλλῡεσκεν [Refs (2.105, ἀλλῡουσαν [prev. work] 109: in)]future and aorist 1 ῡ always: in other tenses ῠ always, except in the forms λελῦτο, λῦτο (see. above).] (Cf. Latin luo (pay), re-luo, solvo (for se-luo), solūtus, etc.):—loosen:
I of things, unbind, unfasten, especially clothes and armour, λῦσε δέ οἱ ζωστῇρα, θώρηκα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.215, 16.804)]; λ. παρθενίην ζώνην loose the maiden-girdle, of the husband after marriage, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.245)]; of the wife, λύοι χαλινὸν ὑφ᾽ ἥρωϊ παρθενίας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).48; ἔνθα παρθένει᾽ ἔλυσ᾽ ἐγὼ κορεύματα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 177; so ἔλυσας.. ἅγνευμα σόν [prev. author] “Tr.” 501)]; frequently of the tackling of ships, λ. πρυμνήσια, ἱστία, λαῖφος, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.418, 15.496, 552, “hymnus ad Apollinem” 406, etc. (never in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”))]; λ. πρύμνας, νεῶν πόδα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 539, 1020, etc.: _absolutely_, λύειν)], of ships, set sail, λῦε, κυβερνήτα [Refs (“APl.” 1.6 *.9 (from Panteleus))]; ἀσκὸν λ. untie a skin (used as a bag), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.47: frequently in Trag., λ. στολάς, πέπλον, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1597, “Tr.” 924)]; λ. ἡνίαν slacken the rein, [Refs ([prev. author] “El.” 743)]; κλῄθρων λυθέντων when the gates have been opened, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 396)]; λ. γράμματα, δέλτον, open a letter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 38 (_anapaest meter_), 307)]; λ. πέδας, δεσμά, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 645 (_passive_), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1123; ἀρβύλας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 945)]; ἀρτάνας.. δέρης ἔλυσαν loosed it from my neck,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 876, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 781:)] —middle, ἀπὸ στήθεσφιν ἐλύσατο κεστὸν ἱμάντα undid her belt, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.214)]; but λύοντο τεύχεα they undid the armour for themselves, i.e. stripped it off (others), [Refs (17.318)]; later λυσαμένα πλοκαμῖδας unbinding her hair, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Bion Bucolicus 1.20, etc.)]
I.b in various phrases, στόμα λ. open the mouth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1060, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.96; γλώσσας λ. εἰς αἰσχροὺς μύθους 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 6.9 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]; λ. βλεφάρων ἕδραν wake up, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 8 (_anapaest meter_))]; λ. ὀφρύν unfold the brow, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Hipp.” 290; λ. ἄχος ἀπ᾽ ὀμμάτων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 706 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]
I.2 of living beings,
I.2.a of horses, etc., unyoke, unharness, opposed to ζεύγνυμι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.35)]; ἐξ ὀχέων, ὑπὲξ ὀχέων, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.369, 8.504; ὑφ᾽ ἅρμασιν 18.244; ὑπὸ ζυγοῦ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.39: ὑπὸ ζυγόφιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.576; ὑπ᾽ ἀπήνης 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.6 (also in _middle_, μὴ.. ὑπ᾽ ὄχεσφι λυώμεθα μώνυχας ἵππους)] unyoke our horses, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.7; βόε λῦσαι 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 608))]; λύε μώνυχας ἵππους loosed them, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.498)]; λ. κύνα let him loose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.13, etc.)]
I.2.b of men, release, deliver, especially from bonds or prison, and so, generally, from difficulty or danger, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.22, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.345, 12.53, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.206, etc.)]; ὁ λύσων he that shall deliver, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 771, 785: with _genitive_ _of things_, τὸν.. θεοὶ κακότητος ἔλυσαν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.397, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.50, etc.; λ. τινὰ δεσμῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1006; ὄκνου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 181; τὼ.. ἐκ δεσμοῖο λύθεν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.360, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 4.23, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 873, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1244, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 360c)]; also λ. δόμους ἁβρότατος rob the house of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.34)]; λ. τινὰ τῆς ἀρχῆς depose him from.., [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 13.92)]:—middle, properly get one loosed or set free, λύσασθαί τινα δυσφροσυνάων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 528; ὅσπερ Ἰὼ πημονᾶς ἐλύσατο 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 1065 (Lyric poetry))]:—passive, λυθῆναι τὰς πέδας [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.116)]; λέλυται γὰρ λαὸς ἐλεύθερα βάζειν, ὡς ἐλύθη ζυγὸν ἀλκᾶς has been let loose to speak, since the yoke was loosed, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 592 (Lyric poetry).)]
I.2.c of prisoners, release on receipt of ransom, admit to ransom, release, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.29, 24.137, 555, etc.; λ. τινά τινι 1.20, 24.561, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.298)]; Σαρπηδόνος ἔντεα καλὰ λύσειαν would give them up, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.163; in full, λ. τινὰ ἀποίνων 11.106; χρημάτων μεγάλων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.135 (_passive_))]; ἀνὴρ ἀντ᾽ ἀνδρὸς λυθείς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.3)]:—middle, release by payment of ransom, get a person released, redeem, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.13, 24.118, +others, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.284, 385, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 243c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.229; λύσασθαί τινας ἐκ πολεμίων 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.20; ἵππον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.8.6; ὅσους αὐτὸς ἐλυσάμην τῶν αἰχμαλώτων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.169; λ. τινὶ τὸ χωρίον [prev. author] 50.28)]; ἑαυτοὺς λ. pay their own ransom, [Refs ([prev. author] 19.169)]; buy from a pimp, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1353.)]
I.2.d λελύσθαι τῶν νόμων, = Latin legibus solvi, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 53.18.)]
I.3 give up, [θρόνον] λῦσον ἄμμιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.155.)]
II resolve a whole into its parts, dissolve, break up, λ. ἀγορήν dissolve the assembly, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.305; ἀγορὰς ἠμὲν λύει ἠδὲ καθίζει 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.69, etc.)]:—passive, λῦτο δ᾽ ἀγών [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.1; μὴ λυθείη ἡ στρατιά 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.2)]; πρὶν [ἂν].. ἡ ἀγορὰ (market) λυθῇ [Refs 2nd c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Oec.” 12.1; λυθείσης τῆς συνουσίας 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.15.3.)]
II.2 of concrete objects, σπάρτα λέλυνται, i. e. have rotted, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.135; ῥαφαὶ δ᾽ ἐλέλυντο ἱμάντων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.186)]; λ. τὴν σχεδίην break it up, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.97)]; [τὴν γέφυραν] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.4.17; τὴν ἀπόφραξιν [prev. work] 4.2.25.)]
II.3 especially of physical strength, loosen, i. e. weaken, relax, λῦσε δὲ γυῖα made his limbs slack or loose, i. e. killed him, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.469, +others; ὅς τοι γούνατ᾽ ἔλυσα 22.335; πολλῶν τε καὶ ἐσθλῶν γούνατ᾽ ἔλυσεν 5.176, etc.; ἀλλά οἱ αὖθι λῦσε μένος 16.332; πέλεκυς λῦσεν.. βοὸς μένος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.450, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.29)]; but οἵ μοι καμάτῳ.. γούνατ᾽ ἔλυσαν made my knees weak with toil, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.118:)] —passive, λύντο δὲ γυῖα, etc., as the effect of death, sleep, weariness, fear, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.16, etc.; καμάτῳ φίλα γυῖα λέλυντο 13.85, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.233; αὐτοῦ λύτο γούνατα καὶ φίλον ἦτορ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.114, 425; λύθη ψυχή τε μένος τε 5.296, etc.; λύθεν δέ οἱ ἅψεα πάντα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.794, 18.189; λέλυται γυίων ῥώμη 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 913 (_anapaest meter_); λύεται δέ μου μέλη 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 438; λέλυμαι μελέων σύνδεσμα [prev. author] “Hipp.” 199 (_anapaest meter_).)]
II.3.b λύει βλέφαρα closes her eyes in sleep, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1302.)]
II.3.c metaphorically, λ. τὴν ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς πρὸς μάχην παρασκευήν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.5.22.)]
II.4 undo, bring to naught, destroy, πολίων κάρηνα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.25; Τροίης κρήδεμνα 16.100, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.388, compare 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus “fragment” 16.7)]: generally, put an end to, νείκεα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.205; μελεδήματα 23.62; ἔριν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 81, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.316.12 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus); πόλεμον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.31; ἐπιμομφάν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).9; μέμψιν 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 271; φόβον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 270; φόβον καὶ τὴν ὑποψίαν Polystr. p.7 W.,compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sententiae” 12; μοχθήματα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1616; ἀνάγκας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 39)]; βίον, i.e. die, [Refs ([prev. author] “IT” 692)]; αἰῶν᾽ ἔλυσε, i.e. died, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.43; λ. τὸ τέλος βίον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1720 (Lyric poetry))]; μαχας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 991 (_anapaest meter_); νοσήματα Diocl.fragment 35 (_passive_),compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.476; κόπους 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus “Eup.” 1.220)]; forgive, ἁμαρτήματα [LXX (LXX.Job.42.9.)]
II.4.b in Prose, λ. νόμους repeal or annul laws, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.82, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.10, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1269a15)]; οὐθὲν τῶν περὶ τὴν πολιτείαν[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1298b31; λ. ψήφῳ τὸ παράνομον 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.197 (_passive_), etc.)]; ἐπεὶ ἐκεῖνοι ἔλυσαν τὰς σπονδὰς λελύσθαι μοι δοκεῖ ἡ ἐκείνων ὕβρις καὶ ἡ ἡμετέρα ὑποψία [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.21)]; rescind a vote, ψῆφον λύει ὁ νόμος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.2)]; revoke a will, διαθήκην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.33, etc.)] (but in passive, to be opened, of a will, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 715.19 (2nd c.AD), etc.))]; unbind a spell, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de Mysteriis” 3.27:)] —passive, λέλυται πάντα all ties are broken, all is in confusion, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.25.)]
II.4.c as a technical term, solve a difficulty, a problem, a question, λύεται ἡ ἀπορία [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 324e, +others; λ. ζήτημα 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.436.)]
II.4.d refute an argument, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 509a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1402b24, +others; compare λύσις 11.4b, λυτικός 11.)]
II.4.e unravel the plot of a tragedy, opposed to πλέκειν, [Refs ([prev. author] “Po.” 1456a10.)]
II.4.f λ. τὴν φάσιν, of the Moon, pass out of, [Refs (Vett. Val. 134.1, compare 2.)]
II.5 break a legal agreement or obligation, τὸν νόμον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.106; τὰς σπονδάς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.23, 78, compare 4.23, +others; τὰ συγκείμενα 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.41)]; σίς κε τὰς ϝρήτας τάσδε λύση whoso breaks this agreement, [Refs (“Inscription Cyprian dialect” 135.29 H.)]
II.6 in physical sense, dissolve, λύθεν, opposed to πάγεν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 15.4)]; τὸ θερμὸν λύει, opposed to πήγνυσι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 384b11, compare 382b33 (_passive_))]; ἀμμωνιακὸν ὄξει λύσας [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 11.106)]; melt, παγείσας χιόνας [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.4.2; τι πυρὶ λ. “Hippiatrica” 52.)]
II.7 of medicines, λ. τὴν κοιλίαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 863b29, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.(Sp.)” 38, Diocl.fragment 140)]; so of the effects of terror, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 877a32 (_passive_).)]
II.8 resolve [musical notation] into [musical notation], in passive, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 8, 10, 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor 1st c.AD: Quintilianus Rhetor Latinus 1.28.)]
III solve, fulfil, accomplish, τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ μαντεῖα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 407; ὅρκον 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.58.4.)]
IV atone for, make up for, τὰς πρότερον ἁμαρτίας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ra.” 691; λύσων ὅσ᾽ ἐξήμαρτον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1224; λ. φόνον φόνῳ [prev. author] “OT” 101, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 511; αἱ πρόσοδοι λύουσι τἀναλώματα 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 32.5)]:—middle, τῶν πάλαι πεπραγμένων λύσασθ᾽ αἷμα.. δίκαις [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 804 (Lyric poetry).)]
V μισθὸν λύειν pay wages in full, quit oneself of them, used only in cases of obligation, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 2.31.)]
V.2 τέλη λύειν, ={λυσιτελεῖν}, pay, profit. avail, ἔνθα μὴ τέλη λύει φρονοῦντι where it boots not to be wise, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 316: but more frequently λύει without τέλη)], construed like{λυσιτελεῖ}, absolutely, λύει δ᾽ ἄλγος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1362, compare “PSI” 4.400.16: with _dative_ _person_, φημὶ τοιούτους γάμους λύειν βροτοῖσιν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 628, compare “Hipp.” 441: with)]infinitive, πῶς οὖν λύει.. ἐπιβάλλει; [Refs ([prev. author] “Med.” 1112 (_anapaest meter_))]; ἐμοί τελύειτοῖσιμέλλουσιν τέκνοις τὰ ζῶντ᾽ ὀνῆσαι it is good for me to benefit my living children by means of those to come,[Refs 2nd c.BC+ ([prev. work] 566; λύει ἀπελθεῖν “UPZ” 77i12 (2nd c.BC): with _accusative_ et)]infinitive, λύει γὰρ ἡμᾶς οὐδέν, οὐδ᾽ ἐπωφελεῖ,.. θανεῖν it is not expedient that we should die (οὐδ᾽ ἐπωφελεῖ being parenthetic), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1005; οὐ γάρ με λύει.. κακορροθεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Sthen.Prol.” 35)]; compare λυσιτελέω.