Strong's #3089: luo (pronounced loo'-o)

a primary verb; to "loosen" (literally or figuratively):--break (up), destroy, dissolve, (un-)loose, melt, put off. Compare 4486.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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luō

1) to loose any person (or thing) tied or fastened

1a) bandages of the feet, the shoes

1b) of a husband and wife joined together by the bond of matrimony

1c) of a single man, whether he has already had a wife or has not yet married

2) to loose one bound, i.e. to unbind, release from bonds, set free

2a) of one bound up (swathed in bandages)

2b) bound with chains (a prisoner), discharge from prison, let go

3) to loosen, undo, dissolve, anything bound, tied, or compacted together

3a) an assembly, i.e. to dismiss, break up

3b) laws, as having a binding force, are likened to bonds

3c) to annul, subvert

3d) to do away with, to deprive of authority, whether by precept or act

3e) to declare unlawful

3f) to loose what is compacted or built together, to break up, demolish, destroy

3g) to dissolve something coherent into parts, to destroy

3h) metaphorically, to overthrow, to do away with

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a root word

Citing in TDNT: 2:60 & 4:328, 543

Usage:

This word is used 43 times:

 

Matthew 5:19: "Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments,"
Matthew 16:19: "in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth"
Matthew 16:19: "whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
Matthew 18:18: "in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth"
Matthew 18:18: "whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
Matthew 21:2: "a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me."
Mark 1:7: "not worthy to stoop down and unloose."
Mark 7:35: "string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain."
Mark 11:2: "whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring"
Mark 11:4: "in a place where two ways met; and they loose him."
Mark 11:5: "unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt?"
Luke 3:16: "I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with"
Luke 13:15: "of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass"
Luke 13:16: "lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this"
Luke 19:30: "whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring"
Luke 19:31: "ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because"
Luke 19:33: "And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof"
Luke 19:33: "unto them, Why loose ye the colt?"
John 1:27: "not worthy to unloose."
John 2:19: "and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in"
John 5:18: "him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but"
John 7:23: "law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made"
John 10:35: "the Scripture cannot be broken;"
John 11:44: "Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go."
Acts 2:24: "Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because"
Acts 7:33: "the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for"
Acts 13:25: "I am not worthy to loose."
Acts 13:43: "Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and"
Acts 22:30: "of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and"
Acts 24:26: "of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for"
Acts 27:41: "and remained unmovable, but the hinder part was broken with the"
1 Corinthians 7:27: "seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not"
Ephesians 2:14: "both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition"
2 Peter 3:10: "with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and"
2 Peter 3:11: "Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be"
2 Peter 3:12: "wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt"
1 John 3:8: "of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil."
Revelation 5:2: "the book, and to loose the seals thereof?"
Revelation 5:5: "to open the book, and to loose the seven seals"
Revelation 9:14: "had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound"
Revelation 9:15: "the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and"
Revelation 20:3: "after that he must be loosed a little season."
Revelation 20:7: "years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,"