Strong's Number 3089
Transliteration:
luo
{loo'-o}
Word Origin:
a root word
TDNT:
2:60 & 4:328,543
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage in the KJV:
loose 27, break 5, unloose 3, destroy 2, dissolve 2, put off 1, melt 1, break up 1, break down 1
Total: 43
Definition:
- to loose any person (or thing) tied or fastened
- bandages of the feet, the shoes,
- of a husband and wife joined together by the bond of matrimony
- of a single man, whether he has already had a wife or has not yet married
- to loose one bound, i.e. to unbind, release from bonds, set free
- of one bound up (swathed in bandages)
- bound with chains (a prisoner), discharge from prison, let go
- to loosen, undo, dissolve, anything bound, tied, or compacted together
- an assembly, i.e. to dismiss, break up
- laws, as having a binding force, are likened to bonds
- to annul, subvert
- to do away with, to deprive of authority, whether by precept or act
- to declare unlawful
- to loose what is compacted or built together, to break up, demolish, destroy
- to dissolve something coherent into parts, to destroy
- metaph., to overthrow, to do away with