Lexicon chalaó: to slacken Original Word: χαλάωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: chalaó Phonetic Spelling: (khal-ah'-o) Short Definition: I let down, lower Definition: I let down, lower, slacken, loosen. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitionto slacken NASB Translationlet down (6), let down let down (1), lowering* (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5465: χαλάωχαλάω, χάλω; future χαλάσω; 1 aorist ἐχάλασα; 1 aorist passive, ἐχαλάσθην; from Aeschylus and Pindar down; a. to loosen, slacken, relax. b. to let down from a higher place to a lower: τί or τινα, Mark 2:4; Luke 5:4; Acts 27:17, 30 (in these last two passages in a nautical sense, to lower); τινα ἐν συριδιδ, Acts 9:25; passive, 2 Corinthians 11:33.
Strong's to slacken, let down From the base of chasma; to lower (as into a void) -- let down, strike. see GREEK chasma |
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