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3.
$
(
"
, 630) signifies “to set free, release, loose” ( , “from,”
$
, “to
loose”), e.g., Luke 13:12; John 19:10; forgive, Luke 6:37; to release, dismiss, send away,
translated “to let go,” e.g., in Luke 14:4; in some mss. 22:68; in Luke 23:22; John 19:12
and Acts 3:13,
KJV
, “let … go” (
RV
, “release”); in Acts 4:21, “they let … go”; in v. 23
(passive voice), “being let go”; 5:40; in 15:33,
KJV
, “let go” (
RV
, “dismissed”); 16:35, 36;
17:9; in 23:22,
RV
, “let … go” (
KJV
, “let … depart”); in 28:18,
KJV
, “let … go” (
RV
, “set
… at liberty”). See
DISMISS
.
4.
(
#1
, 1439), “to let,” occurs in Acts 27:32. See
SUFFER
.
Note:
In Acts 2:29, the impersonal verb
@
, “it is permitted, it is lawful,” is
rendered “let me,”
KJV
(
RV
and
KJV
, marg., “I may”).
For
LET
(
KJV
in
Rom. 1:13
and
2 Thess. 2:7
) see
HINDER
and
RESTAIN
LET DOWN
1.
(
&
, 2524), “to send,” or “let down” (
, “down,”
, “to
send”), is translated “to let down,” with reference to (a) the paralytic in Luke 5:19; (b)
Saul of Tarsus, Acts 9:25; (c) the great sheet in Peter’s vision, 10:11 and 11:5.¶
2.
(
1
, 5465), “to slacken, loosen, let loose,” denotes in the NT, “to let
down, to lower”; it is used with reference to (a) the paralytic, in Mark 2:4, cf. No. 1 (a);
(b) Saul of Tarsus, Acts 9:25, “lowering” [see also No. 1 (b)]; 2 Cor. 11:33, “was I let
down” (passive voice); (c) nets, Luke 5:4, 5 (in the latter,
RV
, “nets”;
KJV
, “net”); (d) the
gear of a ship, Acts 27:17,
RV
, “they lowered (the gear),”
KJV
, “they strake (sail)”; (e) a
ship’s boat, v. 30,
RV
, “lowered” (
KJV
, “let down”). See
LOWER
,
STRIKE
.¶
LET OUT
(
#
&
, 1554), primarily, “to give out, give up, surrender” ( , “out,
from,”
, “to give”), denotes “to let out for hire”; in the NT it is used, in the middle
voice, with the meaning “to let out to one’s advantage,” in the parable of the husbandman
and his vineyard, Matt. 21:33, 41; Mark 12:1; Luke 20:9,
KJV
, “let … forth”;
RV
, “let
out.Ӧ
LETTER
1.
(
$1
, 1121) primarily denotes “that which is traced or drawn, a
picture”; then, “that which is written,” (a) “a character, letter of the alphabet,” 2 Cor. 3:7;
“written,” lit., “(in) letters”, Gal. 6:11; here the reference is not to the length of the epistle
(Paul never uses
, either in the singular or the plural of his epistles; of these he
uses
, No. 2), but to the size of the characters written by his own hand (probably
from this verse to the end, as the use of the past tense, “I have written,” is, according to
Greek idiom, the equivalent of our “I am writing”). Moreover, the word for “letters” is
here in the dative case,
, “with (how large) letters”; (b) “a writing, a written
document, a bond” (
KJV
, “bill”) Luke 16:6, 7; (c) “a letter, by way of correspondence,”
Acts 28:21; (d) the Scriptures of the OT, 2 Tim. 3:15; (e) “learning,” John 7:15, “letters”;
Acts 26:24, “(much) learning” (lit., “many letters”); in the papyri an illiterate person is
often spoken of as one who does not know “letters,” “which never means anything else
than inability to write” (Moulton and Milligan); (f) “the letter,” the written