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Lexicon :: Strong's G447 - aniēmi

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ἀνίημι
Transliteration
aniēmi (Key)
Pronunciation
an-ee'-ay-mee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From ἀνά (G303) and hiemi (to send)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:367,60

Strong’s Definitions

ἀνίημι aníēmi, an-ee'-ay-mee; from G303 and ἵημι híēmi (to send); to let up, i.e. (literally) slacken or (figuratively) desert, desist from:—forbear, leave, loose.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G447 in the following manner: loose (2x), forbear (1x), leave (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G447 in the following manner: loose (2x), forbear (1x), leave (1x).

  1. to send back, relax, loosen

  2. to give up, omit, calm

  3. to leave, not to uphold, to let sink

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀνίημι aníēmi, an-ee'-ay-mee; from G303 and ἵημι híēmi (to send); to let up, i.e. (literally) slacken or (figuratively) desert, desist from:—forbear, leave, loose.
STRONGS G447:
ἀνίημι [participle plural ἀνιέντες]; 2 aorist subjunctive ἀνῶ, participle plural ἀνέντες; 1 aorist passive ἀνέθην; to send back; to relax; contextually, to loosen: τί, Acts 16:26 (τοὺς δεσμούς, Plutarch, Alex. M. 73); Acts 27:40. Tropically, τὴν ἀπειλήν, to give up, omit, calm [?], Ephesians 6:9; (τὴν ἔχθραν, Thucydides 3, 10; τὴν ὀργήν, Plutarch, Alex. M. 70). to leave, not to uphold, to let sink: Hebrews 13:5, (Deuteronomy 31:6).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
31:6
Acts
16:26; 27:40
Ephesians
6:9
Hebrews
13:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G447 matches the Greek ἀνίημι (aniēmi),
which occurs 32 times in 32 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24 - Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:21 - “Naphtali is a doe let loose
that bears beautiful fawns.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11 - but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:6 - Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:8 - It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:19 - But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:3 - God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger[fn] against him subsided when he said this.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:5 - When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant[fn] who was with him, “Come, let us go back, lest my father cease to care about the donkeys and become anxious about us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:3 - The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days’ respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:23 - Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:16 - Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the LORD said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 - Then David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:16 - And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:15 - And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:20 - Then David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for the LORD God, even my God, is with you. He will not leave you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:9 - And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:31 - And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:13 - Look away from me, that I may smile again,
before I depart and am no more!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:18 - It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:14 - Your new moons and your appointed feasts
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:9 - So man is humbled,
and each one is brought low—
do not forgive them!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6 - I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and briers and thorns shall grow up;
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root will be as rottenness,
and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts,
and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:11 - And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it
as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim,
but the LORD will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill[fn] of his hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10 - For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
there it lies down and strips its branches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:3 - Strengthen the weak hands,
and make firm the feeble knees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:27 - while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted[fn] before it is grown.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:2 - He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice,
or make it heard in the street;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:4 - even to your old age I am he,
and to gray hairs I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear;
I will carry and will save.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 62:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:1 - For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,
and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet,
until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
and her salvation as a burning torch.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:6 - You have rejected me, declares the LORD;
you keep going backward,
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—
I am weary of relenting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:2 - But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
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