STRONGS G1956:
ἐπιλύω: imperfect
ἐπέλυον; 1 future passive
ἐπιλυθήσομαι;
a. properly,
to unloose, untie (German
auflösen) anything knotted or bound or sealed up; (Xenophon, Theocritus, Herodian).
b. to clear (a controversy),
to decide, settle:
Acts 19:39;
to explain (what is obscure and hard to understand):
Mark 4:34 (as in
Genesis 41:12 variant; Philo, vita contempl. § 10; de agricult. § 3; Sextus Empiricus, 2, 246;
γρίφους,
Athen. 10, p. 449 e.; also in middle,
Athen. 10, p. 450 f.; Josephus, Antiquities 8, 6, 5, and often by the Scholiasts).
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