Words the Bible translates as loose
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- pataḥפָּתַחto open, loosen, or release: to move something closed or bound into an open state
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- to engrave or carve: to cut characters or images into a hard surface
- luōλύωto loose: to undo something that is tied, fastened, held, or bound together, whether a literal knot or a thing that holds people captive or in place.
- natarנָתַרto loosen or untie what holds something fast, and so to let a person or thing go free
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- to leap or spring: to jump off the ground, or to jolt suddenly, and so to make something else jump
- shereשְׁרָאto loosenot studied yet
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