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Acts 28:25
Textus Receptus (Stephanus 1550)
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
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Greek-English Dictionary
to free fully that is (literally) relieve release: dismiss (reflexively depart) or (figuratively) let die pardon or (specifically) divorce
1. to set free
2. to let go, dismiss, (to detain no longer)
a. a petitioner to whom liberty to depart is given by a decisive answer
b. to bid depart, send away
3. to let go free, release
a. a captive i.e. to loose his bonds and bid him depart, to give him liberty to depart
b. to acquit one accused of a crime and set him at liberty
c. indulgently to grant a prisoner leave to depart
d. to release a debtor, i.e. not to press one's claim against him, to remit his debt
4. used of divorce, to dismiss from the house, to repudiate. The wife of a Greek or Roman may divorce her husband.
5. to send one's self away, to depart
of the New Testament 1889
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.